Schwatka Lake
- Area
- 1.46 km²
- Tonight
- -3°CPartly cloudy · Wind 7 km/h SE
Schwatka Lake is a lake at 653 m above sea level in Yukon, Canada, 1.46 km² in area and 3.3 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 653 m
- Length
- 3.3 km
- Shoreline
- 8.3 km
Schwatka Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 8.3 km≈2 h to walk around
Schwatka Lake 3D map
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Schwatka Lake terrain and contours
10 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.
Schwatka Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Schwatka Lake weather
Today · Clear · -3 / 0°C (27 / 32°F) · Wind 7 km/h SE
Schwatka Lake forecast for about 653 m.
- Today-3°0°–7 km/h SE
- Sat-3°2°–12 km/h SE
- Sun-3°2°–11 km/h SE
- Mon-2°3°0.3 mm15 km/h NW
- Tue-3°2°–15 km/h NW
- Wed-4°1°–10 km/h SE
- Thu-3°1°–10 km/h SE
- Fri-1°2°0.5 mm19 km/h SE
- Sat-4°3°1.0 mm12 km/h S
- Sun-4°-1°0.7 mm9 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 Schwatka Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Schwatka Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.8 km NE
Nearest trailhead
0.8 km NE
Nearest caravan site
Hi Country RV Park
Nearest campsite
Robert Service Campground
All mapped places 10
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.8 km NE |
| Trailhead | 0.8 km NE |
| Parking | 1.2 km NNW |
| Parking | 1.4 km S |
| Hi Country RV ParkCaravan site | 1.8 km W |
| Robert Service CampgroundCampsite | 2.1 km NNW |
| Campsite | 2.1 km NNW |
| Miles Canyon TrailheadTrailhead | 2.6 km S |
| Trailhead | 2.8 km NE |
| Pioneer RV ParkCampsite | 4.0 km S |
Slope
Share of the 5.3 × 5.3 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 89% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.7% of the 28 km² view
- Relief in view
- 207 m low point 632 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 2.7 km; 757 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Prairie pasqueflower155
- Arctic Lupine101
- Lanceleaf Stonecrop93
- Pretty Jacob's-ladder82
- Squashberry81
- American Red Squirrel79
Where Schwatka Lake sits
- Region
- Yukon11Canada331North America1,313
Nearby places
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- Terrain
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- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-25)
- 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)