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Peyto Lake
- Area
- 1.47 km²
- Tonight
- -12°CPartly cloudy · Wind 7 km/h NW
Peyto Lake is a lake at 1,839 m above sea level in Alberta, Canada, 1.47 km² in area and 2.8 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 1,839 m
- Length
- 2.8 km
- Shoreline
- 7.1 km
Camping & parking near Peyto Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Peyto Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Bow summit
Nearest hut
Peyto Hut
All mapped places 4
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Bow summitParking | 1.4 km SE |
| Parking | 1.8 km NNE |
| Peyto Lake ParkingParking | 1.9 km ESE |
| Peyto HutHut | 6.8 km SSW |
Peyto Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 7.1 km≈1¾ h to walk around
Peyto Lake 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4.8 × 4.8 km
Peyto 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.
Peyto Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Peyto Lake weather
Today · Clear · -12 / -6°C (10 / 21°F) · Wind 7 km/h NW
Peyto Lake forecast for about 1,839 m.
- Today-12°-6°–7 km/h NW
- Sat-10°-3°3.9 mm9 km/h E
- Sun-8°-1°–9 km/h SE
- Mon-4°3°–2 km/h SE
- Tue-3°0°0.6 mm5 km/h SW
- Wed-7°-1°9.0 mm6 km/h E
- Thu-13°-3°0.5 mm5 km/h SW
- Fri-10°-5°0.9 mm4 km/h SW
- Sat-8°-7°0.8 mm6 km/h SW
- Sun-7°-4°–6 km/h SW
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.
Slope
Share of the 4.8 × 4.8 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 23 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,093 m low point 1,792 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 2.4 km; 199 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- White pasqueflower85
- Bracted Lousewort57
- Western moss-heather50
- Yellow columbine47
- Rock Willow44
- Pink mountainheath42
Where Peyto Lake sits
- Region
- Alberta66Canada331North America1,313
- Protected area
- Banff National Park17
Nearby places
Peyto Lake downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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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 2026-08-21)
- 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 MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)