Searles Lake
- Area
- 130 km²
- Tonight
- 51°FFair · Wind 3–9 mph NNW
Searles Lake is a lake at 494 m above sea level in California, United States, 130 km² in area and 16.4 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 494 m
- Length
- 16.4 km
- Shoreline
- 52.1 km
Searles Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 52.1 km
Searles Lake 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 18.4 × 18.4 km
Searles Lake terrain and contours
50 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.
Searles Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Searles Lake weather
Tonight · Fair · 51°F (11°C) · 8% chance of precipitation · Wind 3–9 mph NNW
Searles Lake forecast for about 499 m.
- Tonight51°8%3–9 mph NNW
- Sat51°77°1%5–13 mph NNW
- Sun52°79°–2 mph S
- Mon50°80°–2 mph NW
- Tue51°80°–2 mph WSW
- Wed52°79°–2 mph WSW
- Thu52°78°3%2 mph WSW
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 18:33 UTC.
Camping & parking near Searles Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Searles Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
5.1 km NW
Nearest caravan site
Trona Park
All mapped places 4
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 5.1 km NW |
| Parking | 5.3 km NW |
| Parking | 5.3 km WNW |
| Trona ParkCaravan site | 6.5 km W |
Slope
Share of the 18.4 × 18.4 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.
Mostly gentle: 88% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 3.4% of the 339 km² view
- Relief in view
- 764 m low point 492 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 9.2 km; 104 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Desert Holly27
- Mojave stinkweed22
- Desert Sunflower20
- Gravel ghost17
- Yellow peppercress16
- Desert sand verbena12
Where Searles Lake sits
- Region
- California152United States932North America1,313
Nearby places
Searles 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 2026-09-19)
- 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)
- 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)