Peeler Lake
Peeler Lake is a California landform within the Toiyabe National Forest and on the west edge of the Hoover Wilderness. One of the few bodies of water on the Great Basin Divide, Peeler Lake's inflow is sufficient for outlet streams over 2 Sierra Crest sills of similar elevation to respectively drain westward to the Pacific Ocean and eastward into the Great Basin. Peeler Lake's saddle area is a mountain pass between the west Sierra slope and the Sierra Escarpment to the east, and the lake level of is over below the summits of Cirque Mountain and Crowne Point. The namesake Peeler Lake Trail of from the east reaches the lake from the parking at the west side of Twin Lakes, and the Bridgeport Ranger Station issues overnight permits for the backcountry area of the lake.
Peeler Lake was named in 1925 for Barney Peeler of nearby Bridgeport, and the lake was added to the Geographic Names Information System in 2000. In 2006, an environmental evaluation of the lake concluded "the nitrate concentration of 17 μeq/L to be too high to come from atmospheric deposition alone."
