Summersville Lake
- Area
- 9.88 km²
- Tonight
- 39°FFair · Wind 5 mph E
Summersville Lake is a lake at 488 m above sea level in West Virginia, United States, 9.88 km² in area and 11.5 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 488 m
- Length
- 11.5 km
- Shoreline
- 95.7 km
Summersville Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 95.7 km
Summersville Lake 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 13.5 × 13.5 km
Summersville Lake 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.
Summersville Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Summersville Lake weather
Tonight · Fair · 39°F (4°C) · Wind 5 mph E
Summersville Lake forecast for about 531 m.
- Tonight39°–5 mph E
- Sat37°65°–1–5 mph SE
- Sun37°65°–3 mph SE
- Mon40°67°–2 mph N
- Tue46°69°–2 mph N
- Wed46°67°–2–6 mph S
- Thu45°69°3%5 mph S
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 23:48 UTC.
Camping & parking near Summersville Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Summersville Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.3 km E
Nearest campsite
1.0 km S
Nearest caravan site
Mountain Top RV Park & Cabins
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.3 km E |
| Parking | 0.3 km E |
| Campsite | 1.0 km S |
| Battle Run CampgroundCampsite | 1.3 km W |
| Parking | 1.8 km W |
| Mountain Lake CampgroundCampsite | 2.2 km NE |
| Mountain Top RV Park & CabinsCaravan site | 3.2 km W |
| Summersville Lake RetreatCaravan site | 3.2 km SE |
| Caravan site | 4.0 km WNW |
Slope
Share of the 13.5 × 13.5 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.
Mostly gentle: 62% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 4.5% of the 182 km² view
- Relief in view
- 424 m low point 359 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 6.7 km; 1,174 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Eastern Newt86
- White-tailed Deer62
- American Toad49
- Mountain laurel33
- Mallard32
- Brown Marmorated Stink Bug30
Where Summersville Lake sits
- Region
- West Virginia3United States932North America1,313
Nearby places
Summersville 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 2025 (scene 2025-09-19)
- 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)
- 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)