Prospect Reservoir
- Area
- 4.87 km²
- Tonight
- 19°CFair · Wind 15 km/h E
Prospect Reservoir is a lake at 56 m above sea level in New South Wales, Australia, 4.87 km² in area and 3.6 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 56 m
- Length
- 3.6 km
- Shoreline
- 15.7 km
Prospect Reservoir in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 15.7 km≈4 h to walk around
Prospect Reservoir 3D map
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Prospect Reservoir terrain and contours
5 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.
Prospect Reservoir elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Prospect Reservoir weather
Today · Light rain showers · 19 / 28°C (66 / 82°F) · 0.5 mm · Wind 15 km/h E
Prospect Reservoir forecast for about 56 m.
- Today19°28°0.5 mm15 km/h E
- Sun20°31°0.8 mm23 km/h N
- Mon13°24°–21 km/h SW
- Tue11°21°–18 km/h SW
- Wed12°22°–15 km/h SE
- Thu14°23°–15 km/h E
- Fri17°25°9.7 mm16 km/h NE
- Sat17°26°5.5 mm14 km/h SW
- Sun13°20°1.0 mm18 km/h SE
- Mon15°19°0.7 mm13 km/h SE
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.
Camping & parking near Prospect Reservoir
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Prospect Reservoir, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
1.6 km ESE
Nearest campsite
4.0 km WSW
Slope
Share of the 5.6 × 5.6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 98% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.2% of the 31 km² view
- Relief in view
- 102 m low point 25 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 2.8 km; 350 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Eastern Grey Kangaroo40
- Common lantana13
- Eastern Brown Snake11
- Magpie-lark9
- Austral Bugle9
- Willie Wagtail8
Where Prospect Reservoir sits
- Region
- New South Wales34Australia156Oceania282
Nearby places
Chipping Norton Lake13 m↑11 km SSE
Lake Parramatta45 m↑11 km ENE
Galston Gorge141 m↑24 km NE
WattamollaLake↑41 km SSE
Bald HillPeak · 300 m↑46 km SSE
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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 2026-01-28)
- 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
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)