Lewis Lake is located in the

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in the southern part of

Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in the western United States, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress with the Yellowst ...

, about southeast of Shoshone Lake, and approximately southwest of

Yellowstone Lake Yellowstone Lake is the largest body of water in Yellowstone National Park. The lake is above sea level and covers with of shoreline. While the average depth of the lake is , its greatest depth is at least . Yellowstone Lake is the largest fre ...

. Lewis Lake and

Shoshone Lake Shoshone Lake is a U.S. backcountry lake with the area of elevated at in the southwest section of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. It lies at the headwaters of the Lewis River a tributary of the Snake River. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser ...

are both located a few miles northeast of the Pitchstone Plateau.General geographic info from USGS topographic maps accessed via the "GNIS in Google Map" feature of the USGS

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website. The Lewis River is the lake's primary inflow, draining south from

. The primary outflow of Lewis Lake is also the Lewis River, continuing south to join the Snake River near the southern boundary of Yellowstone National Park. A few small creeks also feed Lewis Lake. There are several hot springs emptying into the lake on its northwestern shore and two more hot springs at the lake's southern end where it empties into the Lewis River. A campground is located on the lake's southeast shore. Yellowstone National Park's South Entrance Road (which is also numbered as U.S. Route 287,

U.S. Route 89 U.S. Route 89 (US 89) is a north–south United States Numbered Highway with two sections, and one former section. The southern section runs for from Flagstaff, Arizona, to the southern entrance of Yellowstone National Park. The northern section ...

, and

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), run along the east side of Lewis Lake. Like the river, Lewis Lake is named for Meriweather Lewis, commander of the

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Lewis lake holds

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and

lake trout The lake trout (''Salvelinus namaycush'') is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, namaycush, lake char (or charr), touladi, togue, and grey trout. In Lake Superior, it can also ...

and falls within the non-native trout tolerance area of the park. Anglers may keep up to five non-native trout per day but only one brown trout.

Notes

Lakes of Teton County, Wyoming Lakes of Wyoming Lakes of Yellowstone National Park {{wyoming-geo-stub

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