Navajo Lake
- Area
- 56 km²
- Tonight
- 42°FRain showers and thunder · Wind 5–10 mph NE
Navajo Lake is a lake at 1,839 m above sea level in New Mexico, United States, 56 km² in area and 33.6 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 1,839 m
- Length
- 33.6 km
- Shoreline
- 241.6 km
Navajo Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 241.6 km
Navajo Lake 3D map
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Navajo Lake terrain and contours
50 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.
Navajo Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Navajo Lake weather
Tonight · Rain showers and thunder · 42°F (6°C) · 62% chance of precipitation · Wind 5–10 mph NE
Navajo Lake forecast for about 1,846 m.
- Tonight42°62%5–10 mph NE
- Sat41°63°88%5–10 mph E
- Sun34°60°67%0–5 mph S
- Mon32°61°3%0–5 mph S
- Tue33°64°3%5 mph SE
- Wed34°64°4%0–5 mph S
- Thu37°64°33%0–5 mph SE
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 22:47 UTC.
Camping & parking near Navajo Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Navajo Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest caravan site
Rosa Campground
Nearest parking
2.8 km WNW
All mapped places 4
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Rosa CampgroundCaravan site | 2.5 km WSW |
| Parking | 2.8 km WNW |
| Parking | 3.5 km NNW |
| Parking | 3.6 km W |
Slope
Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.
Mostly gentle: 67% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 4.1% of the 400 km² view
- Relief in view
- 772 m low point 1,835 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 10 km; 210 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Whipple Cholla25
- Gunnison's Prairie Dog19
- Arboles Milkvetch15
- Scarlet Globemallow13
- Mountain Bluebird12
- Mule Deer9
Where Navajo Lake sits
- Region
- New Mexico13United States932North America1,313
Nearby places
Molas Pass3,326 m↑84 km NNW
Red Mountain Pass3,358 m↑102 km NNW
Box Canyon2,382 m↑114 km NNW
Mount SneffelsPeak · 4,312 m↑115 km NNW
Uncompahgre Peak4,361 m↑117 km N
More 1
Navajo 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 2025-09-17)
- 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)
- Protected area
- USGS Gap Analysis Project, PAD-US (public domain)
- 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)