ArizonaReservoirYavapai County

Lake Pleasant

At roughly 9,970 acres, Lake Pleasant is one of the lakes covered in Arizona. Its shoreline falls inside Yavapai County. Bureau of Reclamation / Maricopa County Parks manages it.

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CountiesYavapai County

Coordinates33.8953, -112.2828

Surface area9,970 acres

Managed byBureau of Reclamation / Maricopa County Parks

Swimming beaches on Lake Pleasant

No named swimming beach is mapped yet for this lake. Access is through agency day-use areas and boat ramps listed below. We add beach pages only when we can confirm a name, coordinates and an operating agency.

Lake Pleasant on the map

Lake center, swimming spots and access points.

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Weather and water temperature

Air temperature and wind from Open-Meteo. Water temperature only when the lake has a public sensor.

Weather data by Open-Meteo

Lake Pleasant: beaches, ramps and water level

Where there is no marked beach, entry is usually from a boat ramp or an unimproved bank. The federal and state datasets behind this guide list no named beach at Lake Pleasant. That does not mean there is no access, only that none is catalogued.

Inland lakes are not monitored the way ocean beaches are, so posted signs matter more here. Swimming season in Arizona runs through the warm months, and day-use areas set their own opening dates. There is no water temperature sensor here, so only air conditions are shown.

For a lake this size, the park office is the fastest way to learn how the water sits today. Nobody publishes a continuous level for Lake Pleasant in a form this guide can read, so the page carries access and weather instead.

If Lake Pleasant is busy, the nearest alternatives here are Horseshoe Lake (Arizona, 33 mi), Bartlett Lake (Arizona, 38 mi) and Saguaro Lake (Arizona, 49 mi). In all, 14 lakes in Arizona are covered here.