Sylvan Lake
- Area
- 42 km²
- Max depth
- 18 m
- Tonight
- -2°CPartly cloudy · Wind 28 km/h NW
Sylvan Lake is a lake at 937 m above sea level in Alberta, Canada, 42 km² in area and 13.6 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 937 m
- Length
- 13.6 km
- Shoreline
- 37.3 km
Sylvan Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 37.3 km≈9¼ h to walk around
Sylvan Lake 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 15.6 × 15.6 km
Sylvan Lake terrain and contours
10 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.
Sylvan Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Sylvan Lake weather
Today · Clear · -2 / 2°C (28 / 36°F) · Wind 28 km/h NW
Sylvan Lake forecast for about 937 m.
- Today-2°2°–28 km/h NW
- Sat-4°2°–20 km/h NW
- Sun-4°1°–23 km/h SE
- Mon-3°1°–20 km/h SE
- Tue-1°3°0.1 mm9 km/h NW
- Wed-3°1°6.8 mm12 km/h NE
- Thu-3°-2°2.4 mm14 km/h NE
- Fri-6°-2°0.3 mm9 km/h S
- Sat-5°-5°0.9 mm13 km/h SW
- Sun-2°3°–9 km/h SW
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 Sylvan Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Sylvan Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Boat Launch Parking
All mapped places 3
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Boat Launch ParkingParking | 4.6 km NW |
| Overflow ParkingParking | 5.0 km NNW |
| Parking | 5.5 km E |
Slope
Share of the 15.6 × 15.6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 100% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.0% of the 243 km² view
- Relief in view
- 180 m low point 855 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 7.8 km; 486 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Ring-billed Gull62
- American Herring Gull55
- Franklin's Gull33
- Quaking aspen32
- California Gull28
- Red baneberry28
Where Sylvan Lake sits
- Region
- Alberta66Canada331North America1,313
Nearby places
Gull Lake895 m↑23 km NNE
Pine Lake886 m↑57 km ESE
Pigeon Lake845 m↑75 km N
Wizard Lake792 m↑86 km NNE
Buffalo Lake775 m↑86 km E
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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 2026-09-17)
- 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)