Bear Lake
Bear Lake is a natural freshwater lake on the Idaho–Utah border in the Western United States. About 109 square miles in size, it is split about equally between the two states; its Utah portion comprises the second-largest natural freshwater lake in Utah, after Utah Lake.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Lake
- Description: natural freshwater lake on the Utah-Idaho border in the United States
- Also known as: “Bear River Lake”, “Black Bear Lake”, and “Little Lake”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Garden City and Pickelville.
Garden City
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Garden City is a town in northwestern Rich County, Utah, United States. The population was 602 at the 2020 census. Garden City sits on the shores of Bear Lake and is a popular summer resort destination town, thus nicknamed the "Caribbean of the Rockies”.
Pickelville
Hamlet
Photo: Ntsimp, Public domain.
Pickleville was a small town located near the western shore of Bear Lake, 121 miles northeast of Salt Lake City, in Rich County, Utah, United States. In 1979 it became part of Garden City. Pickelville is situated 3 miles southwest of Bear Lake.
Bear Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: Rich, Utah, Southwest, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Spanish—“Bear Lake” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bear Lake (Idaho–Utah)”
- Afrikaans: “Bear Lake”
- Catalan: “Bear Lake”
- Chinese: “熊湖”
- Danish: “Bear Lake (Utah-Idaho)”
- Danish: “Bear Lake(Utah-Idaho)”
- Danish: “Bear Lake”
- Dutch: “Bear Lake (Idaho-Utah)”
- Dutch: “Bear Lake”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره بيار”
- Esperanto: “Ursa Lago (Idaho-Utaho)”
- Esperanto: “Ursa Lago”
- French: “lac Bear”
- French: “Lac Bear”
- German: “Bear Lake (Idaho/Utah)”
- German: “Bear Lake State Park (Idaho)”
- German: “Bear Lake State Park (Utah)”
- German: “Bear Lake Valley”
- German: “Bear Lake”
- Italian: “Bear Lake (Idaho–Utah)”
- Italian: “Bear Lake”
- Japanese: “ベアー湖”
- Korean: “베어호”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bear Lake”
- Portuguese: “Lago do Urso”
- Russian: “Бэр (озеро)”
- Russian: “Бэр”
- Serbian: “Медвеђе језеро”
- Serbian: “Медвеће језеро”
- Slovenian: “Bear Lake”
- Spanish: “Lago Bear”
- Spanish: “Lago del Oso”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ideal Beach and Lake-Air Airport.
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