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Quesnel Lake

725 m2,379 ft
Area
270 km²
Max depth
506 m
Tonight
2°CCloudy · Wind 6 km/h NW

Quesnel Lake is a lake at 725 m above sea level in British Columbia, Canada, 270 km² in area and 81.2 km long.

All facts
Surface elevation
725 m
Length
81.2 km
Shoreline
329.2 km
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Lake

Quesnel Lake in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline
329.2 km
3D map

Quesnel Lake 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 20 × 20 km

Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Quesnel 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.

Index contours every 250 mShowing west → east through the centre

Quesnel Lake elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Quesnel Lake weather

Today · Partly cloudy · 2 / 3°C (36 / 37°F) · Wind 6 km/h NW

Quesnel Lake forecast for about 725 m.

  • Today2°3°–6 km/h NW
  • Sat2°7°0.4 mm10 km/h NE
  • Sun2°6°0.5 mm11 km/h NE
  • Mon3°7°4.2 mm5 km/h SW
  • Tue4°5°4.3 mm7 km/h NE
  • Wed2°7°8.1 mm8 km/h NE
  • Thu0°1°0.9 mm7 km/h SW
  • Fri-2°0°0.2 mm6 km/h S
  • Sat1°3°0.9 mm5 km/h NE
  • Sun6°7°2.0 mm6 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

Camping & parking near Quesnel Lake

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Quesnel Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

All mapped places 3
PlaceDistance
Campsite2.6 km SW
Campsite3.0 km SW
Campsite5.3 km SSW
Slope

Slope

Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 72% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
71.8%
Moderate, 15–30°
23.8%
Steep, 30–45°
4.2%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.2%
Steeper than 30°
4.4% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view
1,402 m low point 724 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 68.5%Water 26.7%Grassland 4.5%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Where it sits

Where Quesnel Lake sits

Region
British Columbia115Canada331North America1,313
Nearby

Nearby places

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Downloads

Quesnel Lake downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Sources

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 2026-09-18)
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)
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)
Sources
Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia