Lakes near me
The mapped Ontario lakes closest to where you are, with distance and direction — for a road you don’t know, or for putting a name to the lake out the window. 3,376 lakes are on this site; the one in front of you may not be among them yet.
Your position is used on this device only: it is never sent to us, never stored, and never written into the address bar. The list keeps updating while this page is open. Passengers only — never use it while driving.
You appear to be far from Ontario’s mapped lakes. The publisher’s other sites: Michigan Lake Depths and Indiana Lake Depths and Minnesota Lake Depths.
Distances are straight-line estimates to each lake’s shore, not driving distances; on long, narrow or many-armed lakes they can be off by a few kilometres. Directions are from true north, and “on your right” uses your direction of travel when the device reports one. Only lakes with a depth map on this site are listed.
How it works
- Your position stays on your phone. The lake list downloads once; your
position is compared against it in the browser, and the browser asks your permission first.
Site analytics count page visits and, like most sites, see only a rough region from your
connection, never the position your phone reports — though a point you type into the
address with
?at=becomes part of that page address. - Ranked by shoreline, not by lake middle. A big lake beside you outranks a pond a mile off, because the distance is estimated to each lake’s shore.
- Works offline. Once you have opened this page, it and the lake list stay on your device, along with any lake maps you have visited.
- Planning ahead? Add a point to the address to list lakes around it without
using your location, for example
/near-me/?at=49.98,-91.95.