Mirror Lake

Mirror Lake is a lake in Inyo County, Desert, California and has an elevation of 10,673 feet. Mirror Lake is situated nearby to the locality Bighorn Park, as well as near Whitney Portal Trailhead.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Whitney and Thor Peak.

Mount Whitney

Photo: Bureau of Land Management, CC BY 2.0.

Mount Whitney is in the Sierra Nevada range in California. At an elevation of 14,505 ft above sea level, it is the highest point in the contiguous United States.

Thor Peak

Peak

Thor Peak is a 12,306-foot-elevation mountain summit located east of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Inyo County, California. It is situated in the John Muir Wilderness on land managed by Inyo National Forest.

Mount Irvine

Peak

Mount Irvine is a mountain in the Sierra Nevada of California. The summit is in the Inyo National Forest and the John Muir Wilderness. The peak was named in memory of Andrew Irvine, of the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, who perished on Mount Everest, June, 1924.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Whitney Portal.

Whitney Portal

Hamlet

Photo: MostlyDeserts, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Whitney Portal is the end of the Whitney Portal road in Inyo County, California, 13.7 miles west of Lone Pine at an elevation of 8,374 feet. Whitney Portal is the gateway to Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States; it is the trailhead for the Mount Whitney Trail.

Mirror Lake

Type: Lake
Description: glacier in United States
Categories: glacier and body of water
Location: Inyo County, Desert, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

36.57081° or 36° 34′ 15″ north

Longitude

-118.26309° or 118° 15′ 47″ west

Elevation

10,673 feet (3,253 metres)

Open location code

8583HPCP+8Q

OpenStreetMap ID

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=lake

GeoNames ID

Wikidata ID

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Satellite Map

Discover Mirror Lake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

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Localities in the Area

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