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Medicine Lake
- Area
- 2.79 km²
- Tonight
- -8°CCloudy · Wind 6 km/h NW
Medicine Lake is a lake at 1,427 m above sea level in Alberta, Canada, 2.79 km² in area and 5.5 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 1,427 m
- Length
- 5.5 km
- Shoreline
- 12.6 km
Medicine Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 12.6 km≈3¼ h to walk around
Medicine Lake 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 7.5 × 7.5 km
Medicine Lake terrain and contours
50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Medicine Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Medicine Lake weather
Today · Partly cloudy · -8 / -2°C (18 / 28°F) · Wind 6 km/h NW
Medicine Lake forecast for about 1,427 m.
- Today-8°-2°–6 km/h NW
- Sat-8°-2°0.9 mm7 km/h NE
- Sun-8°0°–5 km/h N
- Mon-2°5°–3 km/h SE
- Tue-3°3°2.2 mm5 km/h E
- Wed-7°-1°2.3 mm6 km/h NE
- Thu-10°-3°0.3 mm4 km/h E
- Fri-10°-5°0.2 mm7 km/h S
- Sat-7°-5°0.8 mm8 km/h S
- Sun-6°0°–11 km/h S
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.
Camping & parking near Medicine Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Medicine Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.4 km N
Nearest campsite
Watchtower Camp
All mapped places 4
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.4 km N |
| Parking | 0.6 km NNW |
| Parking | 1.1 km NW |
| Watchtower CampCampsite | 6.5 km SW |
Slope
Share of the 7.5 × 7.5 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 29.2% of the 56 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,126 m low point 1,406 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3.7 km; 221 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Bald Eagle128
- Hoary Marmot78
- American Black Bear67
- American Pika35
- Osprey34
- Moose27
Where Medicine Lake sits
- Region
- Alberta66Canada331North America1,313
- Protected area
- Jasper National Park9
Nearby places
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Data sources
- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-13)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)