Portage Lake
- Area
- 5.11 km²
Portage Lake is a lake at 29 m above sea level in Alaska, United States, 5.11 km² in area and 5.0 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 29 m
- Length
- 5.0 km
- Shoreline
- 12.6 km
Portage Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 12.6 km≈3¼ h to walk around
Portage Lake 3D map
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Portage 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.
Portage Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Portage Lake weather
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Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain.
Camping & parking near Portage Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Portage Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.8 km WSW
Nearest trailhead
1.5 km W
Nearest campsite
Freestone Ponds Campsite
Nearest caravan site
Black Bear Campground
All mapped places 12
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.8 km WSW |
| Parking | 0.8 km WSW |
| Parking | 0.8 km WSW |
| Trailhead | 1.5 km W |
| Trailhead | 1.7 km NW |
| Freestone Ponds CampsiteCampsite | 2.5 km WNW |
| Williwaw CampgroundCampsite | 3.6 km WNW |
| Black Bear CampgroundCaravan site | 4.2 km WNW |
| Portage Pass TrailheadTrailhead | 4.7 km E |
| Tangle Pond Informal CampsiteCampsite | 5.0 km WNW |
| City of Whittier CampgroundCaravan site | 5.3 km E |
| Creek CampgroundCaravan site | 6.9 km E |
Slope
Share of the 7 × 7 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 37.5% of the 49 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,216 m low point 22 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 3.5 km; 239 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Dwarf Fireweed96
- Arctic raspberry56
- Salmonberry54
- Sitka burnet45
- Red-berried elder43
- Devil's Club33
Where Portage Lake sits
- Region
- Alaska30United States943North America1,328
Nearby places
Portage 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 2026 (scene 2026-09-02)
- 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)