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This list of lakes in the San Francisco Bay Area groups lakes, ponds, and reservoirs by county. Numbers in parentheses are Geographic Names Information System feature ids. Alameda County
This category is for articles pertaining to lakes in the San Francisco Bay Area. For reservoirs see Category:Reservoirs in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Bay Area has many lakes, particularly if one includes artificial ones such as Lake Berryessa. Some are very small (such as Jewel Lake in Berkeley) and others are covered (Summit Reservoir, for example). Lake Merced and Lake Merritt are salt lakes; the former is drying up while the latter is a closed off estuarine cove.
Lloyd Lake, also known as Mirror Lake or Kissane Lake, is a clay-lined lake in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, named in memory of Reuben Hedley Lloyd, the park commissioner. [2] It is home to a wide variety of non-native, non- migratory birds .
Lake Merced (Spanish: Laguna de Merced) is a freshwater lake in the southwest corner of San Francisco, in the U.S. state of California.It is surrounded by three golf courses (the private Olympic Club and San Francisco Golf Club, and the public TPC Harding Park), as well as residential areas, Lowell High School, San Francisco State University, Lakeshore Alternative Elementary School, Stonestown ...
The lake is fed by an underground spring, which also feeds nearby Lake Merced. [3] It is surrounded by willows, tules, and aquatic plants. [3] Migratory birds along the Pacific Flyway stop to feed, rest, or inhabit the surrounding area. [3] The only natural freshwater lakes in San Francisco are Pine Lake, Lake Merced, and Mountain Lake. [4]
Before 600,000 years ago, Lake Corcoran covered the Central Valley of California. 600,000 years ago a new outlet formed in the present day San Francisco Bay, rapidly carving an outlet through Carquinez Strait, probably catastrophically, and drained the lake, leaving the Buena Vista, Kern and Tulare Lakes as remnants.
Pine Lake (San Francisco) This page was last edited on 12 August 2022, at 05:33 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...