Gravelly Lake

Gravelly Lake is a lake located in Lakewood in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The lake is fed by groundwater and has no surface drainage channels.

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Type: Lake
Description: lake of the United States of America
Also known as: “Cook-alls-shy”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lakewold Gardens and McChord Field.

Lakewold Gardens

Park

Photo: Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Lakewold Gardens is a 10-acre non-profit estate garden located at 12317 Gravelly Lake Drive SW, Lakewood, Washington, in an area known as the Lakes District. It is open to visitors year-round.

McChord Field is a United States Air Force base in the northwest United States, in Pierce County, Washington. South of Tacoma, McChord AFB is the home of the 62nd Airlift Wing, Air Mobility Command, the airbase's primary mission being worldwide strategic airlift.

Lakewood station

Railway station

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Lakewood station is a commuter rail station in Lakewood, Washington, United States. It is the terminus of the S Line of the Sounder commuter rail network, operated by Sound Transit in the Seattle metropolitan area.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lakewood and Fort Lewis.

Lakewood

Town

Photo: Veterans Health, Public domain.

Lakewood is a city in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The population was 63,612 at the 2020 census. It is the second-largest city in the county, behind Tacoma, and is a suburban bedroom community.

Fort Lewis

Town

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Fort Lewis is a United States Army base located 9.1 miles south-southwest of Tacoma, Washington. Fort Lewis was merged with McChord Air Force Base on February 1, 2010, to form Joint Base Lewis–McChord.

Steilacoom

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Steilacoom, a small town of 6,400 people on the southern Puget Sound, is the oldest incorporated town in Washington state. It has 4 buildings and sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the oldest Catholic church in the state and the first Protestant church north of the Columbia River.

Gravelly Lake

Category: body of water
Location: Pierce, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

47.14703° or 47° 8′ 49″ north

Longitude

-122.53106° or 122° 31′ 52″ west

Elevation

262 feet (80 metres)

Open location code

84VV4FW9+RH

OpenStreetMap ID

way 5092957

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=lake

GeoNames ID

5796087

Wikidata ID

Q5597857

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to French—“Gravelly Lake” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Gravelly Lake (lanaw sa Estados Unidos, Washington)”
Cebuano: “Gravelly Lake”
French: “Gravelly Lake”

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