Northern Canada
Yukon
Watson Lake

Watson Lake

Watson Lake is a town of 800 people in southeastern , close to the border. Watson Lake is a common stop for those driving up from British Columbia.
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  • Type: Town with 1,550 residents
  • Description: town on the Alaska Highway in Yukon, Canada
  • Also known as: “Watson Lake, Yukon”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sign Post Forest.

Park
Photo: Jadecolour, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a collection of signs at Watson Lake, Yukon, , and is one of the most famous of the landmarks along the Alaska Highway. It was started by a homesick GI in 1942.

Watson Lake

Latitude
60.0624° or 60° 3′ 45″ north
Longitude
-128.7068° or 128° 42′ 25″ west
Population
1,550
Elevation
678 metres (2,224 feet)
IATA airport code
YQH
United Nations Location Code
CA WAT
Open location code
94GH376V+X7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1695521517
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6176992
Wiki­data ID
Q1025947
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Satellite Map

Discover Watson Lake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Watson Lake” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Watson Lake”
  • Catalan: “Watson Lake”
  • Cebuano: “Watson Lake”
  • Chinese: “沃森莱克”
  • Dutch: “Watson Lake”
  • French: “Watson Lake”
  • German: “Watson Lake”
  • Greek: “Γουώτσον Λέικ”
  • Indonesian: “Watson Lake, Yukon”
  • Indonesian: “Watson Lake”
  • Italian: “Watson Lake”
  • Kalaallisut: “Watson Lake”
  • Lithuanian: “Votson Leikas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Watson Lake”
  • Norwegian: “Watson Lake”
  • Persian: “واتسون لیک، یوکان”
  • Persian: “واتسون لیک”
  • Polish: “Watson Lake”
  • Portuguese: “Watson Lake”
  • Russian: “Уотсон-Лейк”
  • Spanish: “Watson Lake (Yukón)”
  • Spanish: “Watson Lake”
  • Swedish: “Watson Lake”
  • Turkish: “Watson Lake”
  • Ukrainian: “Вотсон-Лейк”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Watson Lake”. Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.