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Mirror Lake
- Area
- 0.51 km²
- Tonight
- 21°FCloudy · Wind 0–3 mph NE
Mirror Lake is a lake at 565 m above sea level in New York, United States, 0.51 km² in area and 1.6 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 565 m
- Length
- 1.6 km
- Shoreline
- 4.1 km
Mirror Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 4.1 km≈1 h to walk around
Mirror Lake 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4 × 4 km
Mirror Lake terrain and contours
10 m contours from the USGS 3DEP 10 m 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.
Mirror Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Mirror Lake weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 21°F (-6°C) · Wind 0–3 mph NE
Mirror Lake forecast for about 591 m.
- Tonight21°–0–3 mph NE
- Sat28°54°–0–3 mph NW
- Sun38°59°–5 mph SW
- Mon27°55°6%6 mph W
- Tue24°44°4%3 mph N
- Wed34°50°7%2 mph W
- Thu41°57°28%2–9 mph SW
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 22:36 UTC.
Camping & parking near Mirror Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mirror Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.3 km W
Nearest trailhead
Brewster Peninsula Trails Parking Area
Nearest campsite
Meadowbrook Campground
All mapped places 7
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.3 km W |
| Parking | 0.3 km W |
| Parking | 0.3 km WSW |
| Trailhead | 1.4 km S |
| Brewster Peninsula Trails Parking AreaTrailhead | 1.6 km NW |
| Route 86 Old Logger's Road Trail Parking AreaTrailhead | 2.2 km E |
| Meadowbrook CampgroundCampsite | 7.6 km W |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.
Mostly gentle: 89% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 1.7% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 299 m low point 507 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 2 km; 644 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Mallard55
- Hobblebush52
- Common Loon28
- Orange hawkweed27
- Common Tansy26
- Bluebead lily24
Where Mirror Lake sits
- Range
- Adirondack Mountains6
- Region
- New York58United States932North America1,313
Nearby places
Lake Placid566 m↑2.7 km NNW
Whiteface MountainPeak · 1,484 m↑10 km NE
Lake Flower↑12 km WNW
Avalanche Lake↑18 km S
Mount MarcyPeak · 1,629 m↑20 km SSE
More in the Adirondack Mountains 2
Mirror Lake downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Data sources
- Terrain
- U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (public domain)
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025 (scene 2025-09-16)
- 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)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (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 NOAA National Weather Service (public domain)
- Sources
- Official website · Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia