- Mirror Lake (California)
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Mirror Lake Mirror Lake, March 2010 Location Yosemite National Park, Mariposa County, California, USA Coordinates 37°44′55″N 119°32′57″W / 37.7485362°N 119.5490520°WCoordinates: 37°44′55″N 119°32′57″W / 37.7485362°N 119.5490520°W Primary inflows Tenaya Creek Primary outflows Tenaya Creek Basin countries United States Surface elevation 4,098 ft (1,249 m) Mirror Lake is a small, seasonal lake located on Tenaya Creek in Yosemite National Park. Situated in Tenaya Canyon directly between North Dome and Half Dome, it is the last remnant of a large glacial lake that once filled most of Yosemite Valley at the end of the last Ice Age, and is close to disappearing due to sediment accumulation.
1962 through 2010
External links
- Media related to Mirror Lake (California) at Wikimedia Commons
- "Mirror Lake". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:253549.
Categories:- Lakes of Yosemite National Park
- Lakes of Mariposa County, California
- Visitor attractions in Mariposa County, California
- California geography stubs
- United States National Park Service stubs
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