Skinner Reservoir
- Area
- 4.08 km²
- Tonight
- 51°FRain showers · Wind 0–5 mph E
Skinner Reservoir is a lake at 449 m above sea level in California, United States, 4.08 km² in area and 4.3 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 449 m
- Length
- 4.3 km
- Shoreline
- 21.5 km
Skinner Reservoir in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 21.5 km≈5½ h to walk around
Skinner Reservoir 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 6.3 × 6.3 km
Skinner Reservoir terrain and contours
20 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.
Skinner Reservoir elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Skinner Reservoir weather
Tonight · Rain showers · 51°F (11°C) · 22% chance of precipitation · Wind 0–5 mph E
Skinner Reservoir forecast for about 485 m.
- Tonight51°22%0–5 mph E
- Sat53°75°1%0–10 mph W
- Sun56°80°–0–5 mph NW
- Mon54°81°–0–5 mph NW
- Tue54°79°–0–5 mph SW
- Wed54°78°2%5 mph S
- Thu54°74°14%0–5 mph SW
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 20:37 UTC.
Camping & parking near Skinner Reservoir
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Skinner Reservoir, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
1.3 km E
Nearest campsite
Campground A
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 1.3 km E |
| Parking | 1.3 km E |
| Parking | 1.3 km E |
| Campground ACampsite | 1.9 km E |
| Group CampgroundCampsite | 1.9 km ENE |
| Campground BCampsite | 2.0 km E |
Slope
Share of the 6.3 × 6.3 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.
Mostly gentle: 84% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 1.2% of the 40 km² view
- Relief in view
- 366 m low point 413 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 3.1 km; 454 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Western Grebe34
- American Coot33
- California Buckwheat28
- Double-crested Cormorant26
- Western Fence Lizard23
- California Ground Squirrel21
Where Skinner Reservoir sits
- Region
- California152United States932North America1,313
Nearby places
Skinner Reservoir 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 2026-09-04)
- 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)