Skeleton Lake
- Area
- 8.29 km²
- Tonight
- -2°CCloudy · Wind 29 km/h NW
Skeleton Lake is a lake at 621 m above sea level in Alberta, Canada, 8.29 km² in area and 5.8 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 621 m
- Length
- 5.8 km
- Shoreline
- 23.9 km
Skeleton Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 23.9 km≈6 h to walk around
Skeleton Lake 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 7.8 × 7.8 km
Skeleton Lake terrain and contours
5 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.
Skeleton Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Skeleton Lake weather
Today · Cloudy · -2 / 1°C (28 / 34°F) · Wind 29 km/h NW
Skeleton Lake forecast for about 621 m.
- Today-2°1°–29 km/h NW
- Sat-4°1°–31 km/h NW
- Sun-4°1°–17 km/h SE
- Mon-3°1°–16 km/h SE
- Tue0°3°2.7 mm11 km/h NW
- Wed-2°0°0.6 mm13 km/h N
- Thu-3°-2°1.3 mm8 km/h E
- Fri-2°-1°0.3 mm8 km/h S
- Sat-4°0°–12 km/h S
- Sun0°2°–12 km/h S
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 Skeleton Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Skeleton Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Shoreline Camping & Fishing Resort
Nearest parking
6.0 km WSW
Nearest caravan site
Boyle R.V. Park
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Shoreline Camping & Fishing ResortCampsite | 3.0 km SSE |
| Parking | 6.0 km WSW |
| Parking | 6.2 km SW |
| Parking | 6.5 km SW |
| Hope Lake CampgroundCampsite | 7.0 km NE |
| Boyle R.V. ParkCaravan site | 7.0 km SW |
Slope
Share of the 7.8 × 7.8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 99% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.0% of the 61 km² view
- Relief in view
- 90 m low point 604 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 3.9 km; 92 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Red baneberry5
- Twinberry honeysuckle5
- Saskatoon5
- Northern Pike4
- Canada mint4
- Wild sarsaparilla4
Where Skeleton Lake sits
- Region
- Alberta66Canada331North America1,313
Nearby places
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Data sources
- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © 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.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-07-24)
- 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
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)