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Sparks Lake
- Tonight
- 29°FFair · Wind 1–5 mph NE
Sparks Lake is a lake at 1,655 m above sea level in Oregon, United States.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 1,655 m
Sparks Lake in numbers
Depth from Wikidata.
- Max depth
- 0 m
Sparks Lake 3D map
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Sparks Lake terrain and contours
10 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.
Sparks Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Sparks Lake weather
Tonight · Fair · 29°F (-2°C) · Wind 1–5 mph NE
Sparks Lake forecast for about 1,646 m.
- Tonight29°–1–5 mph NE
- Sat37°56°5%0–3 mph SE
- Sun34°53°49%3–7 mph SW
- Mon31°44°69%7 mph SW
- Tue30°43°34%3 mph W
- Wed30°45°30%6 mph SW
- Thu32°46°15%2–6 mph SE
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 22:01 UTC.
Camping & parking near Sparks Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Sparks Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.6 km ESE
Nearest campsite
Soda Creek Campground
Nearest trailhead
Soda Creek
Nearest hut
Sunrise Lodge
All mapped places 10
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.6 km ESE |
| Parking | 0.7 km ESE |
| Parking | 0.8 km ESE |
| Soda Creek CampgroundCampsite | 1.7 km NE |
| Soda CreekTrailhead | 1.8 km NNE |
| Green LakesTrailhead | 1.9 km NNE |
| Campsite | 2.7 km NW |
| Quinn Meadow Horse CampCampsite | 3.9 km WSW |
| Elk Lake TrailheadTrailhead | 6.4 km SW |
| Sunrise LodgeHut | 7.2 km ESE |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.
Mostly gentle: 77% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 3.8% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 282 m low point 1,599 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 km; 227 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Pacific Bleeding Heart35
- Davidson's Penstemon28
- Edith's Checkerspot23
- California Tortoiseshell22
- Canada Jay19
- Lodgepole pine19
Where Sparks Lake sits
- Region
- Oregon44United States932North America1,313
- Protected area
- Deschutes National Forest4
Nearby places
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Data sources
- Terrain
- U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (public domain)
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-28)
- 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)