Quesnel Lake
- 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
Quesnel Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 329.2 km
Quesnel Lake 3D map
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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.
Quesnel Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
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 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.
Nearest campsite
2.6 km SW
Slope
Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 72% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 4.4% of the 400 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,402 m low point 724 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.
Where Quesnel Lake sits
- Region
- British Columbia115Canada331North America1,313
Nearby places
Mahood Lake1,020 m↑85 km SSE
Robson Valley↑107 km NE
Mount RobsonPeak · 3,954 m↑145 km ENE
Loon Lake825 m↑161 km S
Nazko ConePeak · 1,230 m↑184 km WNW
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- Terrain
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- 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)