Abraham Lake
Good to know
- Best time to go
- January to February for ice bubbles; July to September otherwise
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- limited
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
Abraham Lake is a reservoir on the North Saskatchewan River in the Rocky Mountain foothills west of Rocky Mountain House, created by the Bighorn Dam in 1972. In winter the lake is renowned among photographers for the frozen methane bubbles trapped within the transparent blue ice as bacteria decompose organic matter on the lakebed. Conditions for viewing and photographing the bubbles are best from December through February before snow covers the ice surface.