Bass Lake
Madera County is in California. The western half of the county is in the San Joaquin Valley, the eastern half extends across the Gold Country into the Sierra Nevada mountains.Photo: Guywelch2000, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 527 residents
- Description: community and census-designated place in Madera County, California, USA
- Also known as: “Bass Lake, CA”, “Bass Lake, California”, and “Crane Valley”
- Postal code: 93604
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Pines Resort and Bass Lake.
The Pines Resort
Hotel
The Pines Resort is a lakeside resort on the north shore of Bass Lake in Madera County, California. Established in 1901 by William Day and William Haskell, it was among the earliest resorts developed in the Crane Valley area.
Bass Lake
Lake
Photo: Guywelch2000, Public domain.
Bass Lake, formerly known as Crane Valley Reservoir, is a reservoir in Madera County, California, within the Sierra National Forest. It lies on North Fork Willow Creek, a tributary of the San Joaquin River, approximately 14 miles south of Yosemite National Park.
Goat Mountain
Peak
Photo: Guywelch2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Goat Mountain is a mountain in Madera County, California, in the Sierra National Forest on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada. Its summit has an elevation of approximately 4,967 feet. Goat Mountain is situated 2 miles south of Bass Lake.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yosemite Forks and Central Camp.
Yosemite Forks
Hamlet
Yosemite Forks is an unincorporated community in Madera County, California. It is located 18 miles northeast of Raymond, at an elevation of 2,907 feet. The road forks at the place: one continues to Yosemite Valley, the other to Bass Lake. Yosemite Forks is situated 4½ miles northwest of Bass Lake.
Central Camp
Hamlet
Central Camp is an unincorporated community in Madera County, California. It is located 3 miles west of Shuteye Peak, at an elevation of 5,417 feet. From 1923 until the early 1930s, Central Camp served as the mountain base of the Sugar Pine Lumber Company, one of the largest lumber operations in California at the time. Central Camp is situated 5 miles east of Bass Lake.
Oakhurst
Photo: Benny White, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oakhurst is a settlement of 2,800 people in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California. It is 14 mi south of the entrance to Yosemite National Park.
Bass Lake
Latitude
37.32467° or 37° 19′ 29″ northLongitude
-119.56625° or 119° 33′ 59″ westPopulation
527Elevation
3,415 feet (1,041 metres)Open location code
85928CFM+VFOpenStreetMap ID
node 150960996OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5326418Wikidata ID
Q4867927
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Bass Lake” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Bass Lake”
- Cebuano: “Bass Lake”
- Chechen: “Басс-Лейк”
- Chinese: “巴斯湖”
- Croatian: “Bass Lake”
- French: “Bass Lake”
- German: “Bass Lake”
- Gilaki: “بس لیک”
- Irish: “Bass Lake”
- Italian: “Bass Lake”
- Ladin: “Bass Lake”
- Navajo: “Łóóʼ Beʼekʼid”
- Persian: “بیس لیک، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “بیس لیک”
- Polish: “Bass Lake”
- Serbian: “Бејс Лејк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bass Lake, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bass Lake, Kalifornija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bass Lake”
- South Azerbaijani: “باس لئیک، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Bass Lake”
- Swedish: “Bass Lake, Kalifornien”
- Swedish: “Bass Lake”
- Tatar: “Басс-Лейк”
- Turkish: “Bass Lake”
- Ukrainian: “Басс-Лейк”
- Urdu: “بیس لیک، کیلیفورنیا”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as The Pines and McCleod Flat.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Glass Rock and Bass Lake Boat Rentals.
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