Shuswap Lake
- Area
- 305 km²
- Max depth
- 161 m
- Tonight
- 5°CPartly cloudy · Wind 4 km/h E
Shuswap Lake is a lake at 346 m above sea level in British Columbia, Canada, 305 km² in area and 65.7 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 346 m
- Length
- 65.7 km
- Shoreline
- 336.5 km
Shuswap Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 336.5 km
Shuswap Lake 3D map
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Shuswap Lake terrain and contours
100 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.
Shuswap Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Shuswap Lake weather
Today · Clear · 5 / 9°C (41 / 48°F) · Wind 4 km/h E
Shuswap Lake forecast for about 346 m.
- Today5°9°–4 km/h E
- Sat5°8°8.3 mm6 km/h NE
- Sun6°11°0.4 mm8 km/h NE
- Mon7°11°1.4 mm3 km/h NE
- Tue7°9°3.1 mm4 km/h S
- Wed6°8°13.9 mm5 km/h NE
- Thu4°7°4.4 mm4 km/h SE
- Fri2°5°3.8 mm4 km/h SE
- Sat2°5°0.1 mm3 km/h SE
- Sun4°8°–3 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 Shuswap Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Shuswap Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Ruckell Point Scout Camp
Nearest parking
7.7 km SW
All mapped places 2
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Ruckell Point Scout CampCampsite | 2.5 km WNW |
| Parking | 7.7 km SW |
Slope
Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 58% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 8.9% of the 400 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,739 m low point 346 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; 218 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Western redcedar20
- Pacific yew13
- Common Merganser12
- Pacific chorus frog12
- Common bracken12
- Bald Eagle11
Where Shuswap Lake sits
- Region
- British Columbia115Canada331North America1,313
Nearby places
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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)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (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)