Ross Lake
- Area
- 48 km²
- Max depth
- 165 m
- Tonight
- 40°FPartly cloudy · Wind 2 mph SE
Ross Lake is a lake at 473 m above sea level in Washington, United States, 48 km² in area and 34.4 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 473 m
- Length
- 34.4 km
- Shoreline
- 109.6 km
Ross Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 109.6 km
Ross Lake 3D map
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Ross Lake terrain and contours
100 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.
Ross Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Ross Lake weather
Tonight · Partly cloudy · 40°F (4°C) · 1% chance of precipitation · Wind 2 mph SE
Ross Lake forecast for about 609 m.
- Tonight40°1%2 mph SE
- Sat43°54°36%1 mph S
- Sun43°55°25%0–3 mph ESE
- Mon44°58°20%0–3 mph NNE
- Tue40°55°38%2 mph NW
- Wed37°55°26%2–6 mph NNE
- Thu38°56°15%1–7 mph NNE
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 18:26 UTC.
Camping & parking near Ross Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Ross Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Rainbow Point Campground
All mapped places 3
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Rainbow Point CampgroundCampsite | 1.7 km SSW |
| Devil's Junction CampgroundCampsite | 2.5 km NNE |
| Devil's Creek CampgroundCampsite | 3.0 km NNE |
Slope
Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.
Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.
- Steeper than 30°
- 53.4% of the 400 km² view
- Relief in view
- 2,479 m low point 289 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; 490 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Sugarstick42
- Pinesap31
- Pipsissewa30
- Cascade Oregon-grape30
- Douglas-fir28
- Western Rattlesnake Plantain28
Where Ross Lake sits
- Region
- Washington57United States932Canada331North America1,313
Nearby places
Ross 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 2026-09-18)
- 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)
- 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)