Usk Reservoir
- Area
- 1.16 km²
- Tonight
- 6°CCloudy · Wind 17 km/h W
Usk Reservoir is a lake at 304 m above sea level in Wales, United Kingdom, 1.16 km² in area and 2.8 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 304 m
- Length
- 2.8 km
- Shoreline
- 8.4 km
Usk Reservoir in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 8.4 km≈2 h to walk around
Usk Reservoir 3D map
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Usk Reservoir 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.
Usk Reservoir elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Usk Reservoir weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 6°C (43°F) · 0.5 mm · Wind 17 km/h W
Usk Reservoir forecast for about 304 m.
- Tonight6°0.5 mm17 km/h W
- Today6°13°35.2 mm40 km/h W
- Sun6°10°2.0 mm43 km/h W
- Mon8°14°20.7 mm36 km/h SW
- Tue8°10°4.9 mm34 km/h W
- Wed9°12°0.9 mm25 km/h W
- Thu9°12°0.3 mm13 km/h S
- Fri9°12°7.4 mm20 km/h SE
- Sat5°10°0.6 mm14 km/h NW
- Sun3°7°1.5 mm21 km/h NW
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 Usk Reservoir
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Usk Reservoir, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
1.0 km E
Nearest caravan site
Black Mountain Caravan and Camping Park
All mapped places 5
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 1.0 km E |
| Parking | 1.6 km S |
| Parking | 1.6 km SSW |
| Black Mountain Caravan and Camping ParkCaravan site | 5.8 km WSW |
| Erwlon Caravan & Camping SiteCaravan site | 7.3 km NW |
Slope
Share of the 4.8 × 4.8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 92% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.3% of the 23 km² view
- Relief in view
- 240 m low point 198 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.
Where Usk Reservoir sits
- Region
- Wales60United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
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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 2026-07-15)
- 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)
- 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 MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)