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Thousand Island Lake
- Area
- 1.35 km²
- Tonight
- 21°FPartly cloudy · Wind 10–30 mph NNE
Thousand Island Lake is a lake at 2,996 m above sea level in California, United States, 1.35 km² in area and 2.6 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 2,996 m
- Length
- 2.6 km
- Shoreline
- 25.7 km
Thousand Island Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 25.7 km≈6½ h to walk around
Thousand Island Lake 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4.6 × 4.6 km
Thousand Island Lake terrain and contours
50 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.
Thousand Island Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Thousand Island Lake weather
Today · Partly cloudy · 21 / 34°F (-6 / 1°C) · 12% chance of precipitation · Wind 10 mph NNE
Thousand Island Lake forecast for about 3,048 m.
- Today21°34°12%10 mph NNE
- Sat25°42°1%0–20 mph NNE
- Sun28°47°–0–5 mph WSW
- Mon26°44°1%10–15 mph SW
- Tue28°46°2%5–20 mph SW
- Wed28°45°5%0–10 mph SW
- Thu26°42°12%5 mph SW
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 23:56 UTC.
Camping & parking near Thousand Island Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Thousand Island Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
3.0 km ENE
Nearest parking
7.5 km NE
Nearest trailhead
Yost Creek and Fern Lake Trailhead
All mapped places 5
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Campsite | 3.0 km ENE |
| Parking | 7.5 km NE |
| Parking | 7.6 km NE |
| Parking | 7.6 km NE |
| Yost Creek and Fern Lake TrailheadTrailhead | 7.6 km NE |
Slope
Share of the 4.6 × 4.6 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.
Mostly gentle: 54% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 13.9% of the 21 km² view
- Relief in view
- 838 m low point 2,869 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 2.3 km; 150 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Yellow-bellied Marmot19
- Lemmon's paintbrush19
- Little Elephant's Head14
- Purple Mountain-heath13
- Pacific chorus frog11
- Ranger buttons11
Where Thousand Island Lake sits
- Region
- California152United States932North America1,313
Nearby places
Donohue Pass3,373 m↑7.3 km NW
Lyell Glacier↑7.9 km WNW
Mount LyellPeak · 3,997 m↑8.0 km WNW
June Lake2,323 m↑12 km NE
Mammoth MountainPeak · 3,371 m↑17 km SE
More 1
More in the Sierra Nevada 6
Thousand Island 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 2026 (scene 2026-09-02)
- 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)
- 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)