Priest Lake
- Area
- 94 km²
- Max depth
- 12 m
- Tonight
- 35°FPartly cloudy · Wind 2 mph N
Priest Lake is a lake at 743 m above sea level in Idaho, United States, 94 km² in area and 30.2 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 743 m
- Length
- 30.2 km
- Shoreline
- 111.4 km
Priest Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 111.4 km
Priest Lake 3D map
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Priest 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.
Priest Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Priest Lake weather
Tonight · Partly cloudy · 35°F (2°C) · 9% chance of precipitation · Wind 2 mph N
Priest Lake forecast for about 743 m.
- Tonight35°9%2 mph N
- Sat36°52°2%2 mph S
- Sun35°54°11%2–6 mph NE
- Mon36°54°36%0–6 mph E
- Tue35°49°49%1 mph S
- Wed31°48°44%2 mph NE
- Thu31°50°15%2 mph N
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 22:52 UTC.
Camping & parking near Priest Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Priest Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Three Pines;Three Pines Campsites
Nearest trailhead
South trailhead #365
Nearest parking
4.4 km W
All mapped places 8
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Three Pines;Three Pines CampsitesCampsite | 2.0 km W |
| Cottonwood CampsitesCampsite | 2.1 km WNW |
| Rocky Point CampsitesCampsite | 2.1 km WNW |
| South trailhead #365Trailhead | 3.6 km W |
| Parking | 4.4 km W |
| Parking | 4.4 km W |
| Parking | 4.5 km W |
| North trailhead #365Trailhead | 6.5 km NNW |
Slope
Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.
Mostly gentle: 58% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 7.1% of the 400 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,492 m low point 739 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; 391 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Pacific chorus frog19
- Woodland pinedrops19
- Columbia Spotted Frog14
- Western Toad14
- Common Tansy13
- California Tortoiseshell12
Where Priest Lake sits
- Region
- Idaho14United States932North America1,313
Nearby places
Priest 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 2026-09-20)
- 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)