Big Bear Lake
Big Bear Lake is a city in the middle of the San Bernardino National Forest in San Bernardino County in Southern California.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Don Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 5,050 residents
- Description: city in San Bernardino County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Big Bear Lake, CA”, “Big Bear Lake, California”, “Big Pear Lake Village”, and “Pine Lake”
- Postal code: 92315
Places of Interest
Highlights include Big Bear Solar Observatory and Big Bear Discovery Center.
Big Bear Solar Observatory
Observatory
Photo: Pgoode1943, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Big Bear Solar Observatory is a university-based solar observatory in the United States. It is operated by New Jersey Institute of Technology. BBSO has a 1.6-meter clear-aperture Goode Solar Telescope, which has no obscuration in the optical train.
Big Bear Discovery Center
Tourism office
Big Bear Discovery Center is a regional visitor center and nature center, located in the Big Bear Valley of the San Bernardino Mountains, and within the San Bernardino National Forest, in San Bernardino County, southern California.
Cedar Lake
Reservoir
Cedar Lake is an artificial lake in the San Bernardino Mountains of California that has appeared in dozens of Western films. It is the centerpiece of Cedar Lake Camp, a private retreat center owned and operated by Cedar Lake Camp, Inc, a non profit public benefit corporation.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Big Bear and Fawnskin.
Big Bear
Town
Photo: Magi Media, Public domain.
Big Bear City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States along the east shore of Big Bear Lake and surrounded by the San Bernardino National Forest. Big Bear is situated 4 miles east of Big Bear Lake.
Fawnskin
Hamlet
Photo: Magi Media, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fawnskin is an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California, United States. It is located on the northwest side of Big Bear Valley, in the heart of the San Bernardino Mountains, at an altitude of 6,827 feet. Fawnskin is situated 2½ miles northwest of Big Bear Lake.
Big Bear Lake
- Categories: city in the United States, charter city, and locality
- Location: San Bernardino County, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.2441° or 34° 14′ 39″ northLongitude
-116.9102° or 116° 54′ 37″ westPopulation
5,050Elevation
6,752 feet (2,058 metres)United Nations Location Code
US BBLOpen location code
856563VQ+JWOpenStreetMap ID
node 150980800OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Big Bear Lake” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيغ بير لاكي”
- Basque: “Big Bear Lake”
- Bulgarian: “Биг Беър Лейк”
- Catalan: “Big Bear Lake”
- Cebuano: “Big Bear Lake”
- Central Kurdish: “بیگ بێر لەیک، کالیفۆڕنیا”
- Central Kurdish: “بیگ بێر لەیک”
- Central Kurdish: “دەریاچەی ورچی گەورە”
- Chechen: “Биг-Бир-Лейк”
- Chinese: “Big Bear Lake”
- Chinese: “大熊湖”
- Chinese: “大贝尔湖”
- Croatian: “Big Bear Lake”
- Czech: “Big Bear Lake”
- Danish: “Big Bear Lake, CA”
- Danish: “Big Bear Lake, California”
- Danish: “Big Bear Lake”
- Dutch: “Big Bear Lake”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيج بير لاكى”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيج بير ليك”
- French: “Big Bear Lake”
- German: “Big Bear Lake”
- Gilaki: “بیگبر لیک”
- Haitian: “Big Bear Lake, Kalifòni”
- Haitian: “Big Bear Lake”
- Hungarian: “Big Bear Lake”
- Irish: “Big Bear Lake”
- Italian: “Big Bear Lake”
- Japanese: “ビッグベアレイク”
- Korean: “빅베어레이크”
- Ladin: “Big Bear Lake”
- Latvian: “Bigbērleika”
- Macedonian: “Биг Бер Лејк”
- Malagasy: “Big Bear Lake, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Big Bear Lake”
- Malayalam: “ബിഗ് ബിയർ ലേക്ക്”
- Mazanderani: “بیگ بیر لیک (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “بیگ بیر لیک”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Big Bear Lake”
- Navajo: “Shashtsoh Beʼekʼid”
- Newari: “बिग ब्यर लेक (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
- Newari: “बिग ब्यर लेक, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “बिग ब्यर लेक”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Big Bear Lake”
- Norwegian: “Big Bear Lake”
- Pampanga: “Big Bear Lake, California”
- Pampanga: “Big Bear Lake”
- Persian: “بیگ بیر لیک، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “بیگ بیر لیک”
- Polish: “Big Bear Lake”
- Portuguese: “Big Bear Lake”
- Russian: “Биг-Бэр-Лейк”
- Serbian: “Биг Бер Лејк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Big Bear Lake, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Big Bear Lake”
- Silesian: “Big Bear Lake”
- Slovak: “Big Bear Lake”
- Spanish: “Big Bear Lake (California)”
- Spanish: “Big Bear Lake”
- Swedish: “Big Bear Lake”
- Tagalog: “Big Bear Lake, California”
- Tagalog: “Big Bear Lake”
- Tatar: “Биг-Бир-Лейк”
- Turkish: “Big Bear Lake, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Big Bear Lake”
- Ukrainian: “Біг-Бір-Лейк”
- Urdu: “بگ بیئر لیک، کیلیفورنیا”
- Uzbek: “Big Bear Lake”
- Volapük: “Big Bear Lake”
- Waray (Philippines): “Big Bear Lake, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Big Bear Lake”
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