California
Gold Country
El Dorado County

Loon Lake

Loon Lake is a in the of , United States. The 76,200 acre⋅ft lake is formed by Loon Lake Dam, completed in 1963 as part of the Upper American River Project by Sacramento Municipal Utility District to conserve spring snow melt runoff for use during the summer and autumn for hydroelectric power production.
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Photo: Nick Ares, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Lake
  • Description: lake in California, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Loon Lake Reservoir” and “Pleasant Lake”

Loon Lake

Latitude
38.99986° or 38° 59′ 60″ north
Longitude
-120.30958° or 120° 18′ 35″ west
Elevation
6,381 feet (1,945 metres)
Open location code
84CXXMXR+W5
Open­Street­Map ID
way 36939697
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­lake
Geo­Names ID
5368241
Wiki­data ID
Q6675627
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Satellite Map

Discover Loon Lake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Japanese—“Loon Lake” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Loon Lake”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرة لون (كاليفورنيا)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرة لون”
  • French: “Loon Lake”
  • Japanese: “ルーン湖”

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Notable Places Nearby

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Loon Lake”. Photo: Nick Ares, CC BY-SA 2.0.