Tenaya Lake
Tenaya Lake is an alpine lake in Yosemite National Park, located between Yosemite Valley and Tuolumne Meadows. The surface of Tenaya Lake has an elevation of 8,150 feet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: alpine lake in Yosemite National Park, California, United States
- Also known as: “Lake Ten-ie-ya”, “Piwyack”, “Py-we-ack”, and “Yo-Semity Lake”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stately Pleasure Dome and Harlequin Dome.
Stately Pleasure Dome
Peak
Stately Pleasure Dome is the unofficial name for the prominent south-southwestern portion of Polly Dome, a granite dome on the northwest side of Tenaya Lake and Tioga Road in the Yosemite high country.
Harlequin Dome
Peak
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Harlequin Dome is a granite dome, quite near Tenaya Lake, in the Tuolumne Meadows region of Yosemite National Park.
Tenaya Peak
Peak
Tenaya Peak is a mountain in the Yosemite high country, rising above Tenaya Lake. Tenaya Peak is named after Chief Tenaya, who met the Mariposa Battalion near the shores of the Tenaya lake.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yosemite National Park.
Yosemite National Park
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yosemite National Park is a national park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Sierra Nevada mountains in east-central California. Approximately four million visitors each year come to Yosemite to marvel at its spectacular granite cliffs, towering waterfalls, remote wilderness, massive sequoia trees, and high mountain meadows.
Tenaya Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: Mariposa County, Sierra Nevada, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.8311° or 37° 49′ 52″ northLongitude
-119.45965° or 119° 27′ 35″ westElevation
8,143 feet (2,482 metres)Open location code
8592RGJR+C4OpenStreetMap ID
way 29707987OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lakeGeoNames ID
5401567Wikidata ID
Q1755031
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Satellite Map
Discover Tenaya Lake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Venetian—“Tenaya Lake” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Возера Тэная”
- Belarusian: “Тэная”
- Bulgarian: “Теная”
- Cebuano: “Tenaya Lake”
- Chuvash: “Теная”
- Dutch: “Tenaya Lake”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره تينايا”
- French: “lac Tenaya”
- French: “Lac Tenaya”
- German: “Tenaya Lake”
- Italian: “lago Tenaya”
- Italian: “Lago Tenaya”
- Japanese: “テナヤ湖”
- Persian: “دریاچه تنایا”
- Persian: “دریاچهٔ تنایا”
- Portuguese: “Lago Tenaya”
- Russian: “Теная”
- Spanish: “Lago Tenaya”
- Swedish: “Tenayasjön”
- Turkish: “Tenaya Gölü”
- Venetian: “lago Tenaya”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Porcupine Flat and Tuolumne Meadows.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Murphy Creek Trailhead and Sunrise Lakes Trailhead.
Mariposa County: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Mariposa, El Portal, Coulterville, and Fish Camp.
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