Malheur National Forest Lakes
A complete list of lakes in Malheur National Forest with links to the posts of the ones I've been to.

Malheur National Forest is located in Oregon. According the the National Forest website it is 1.7 million acres and includes the Strawberry Mountain range. The national forest is broken into four ranger districts: Bear Valley Ranger District, Burns Ranger District, and Prairie Valley Ranger District, and Emigrant Creek Ranger District.
Prairie Valley Ranger District includes Strawberry Mountain Wilderness.
Emigrant Creek Ranger District was formerly known as Snow Mountain Ranger District and used to be a part of Ochoco National Forest. Now it has a new ranger district name and is administered by Malheur National Forest. It was hard to find information about this change, and the 2016 Forest Service layer on CalTopo doesn't reflect this change. I've struggled to find Forest Service maps that are more current but have been unsuccessful in that regard. On the Forest Service website Emigrant Creek R.D. is referenced. Wikipedia does reference the change even though that isn't the most reliable source.
Malheur National Forest is in the high desert and has a limited number of lakes compared to the national forests in the cascade range. High lakes are mostly located in Strawberry Mountain Wilderness, while very small reservoirs are plentiful in Emigrant Creek Ranger District.
From my research, I have listed 43 lakes. My list is as complete as I could get it, but I could be missing a few. There are also a few lakes that I'm not sure if they exist, so the number is subject based on their existence.
How I classify lakes
I am not very picky about the criteria I use for marking a body of water as a lake. I use the word “lake” loosely and as an all encompassing word. It includes lakes, reservoirs, glacier tarns, ponds, seasonal bodies of water, etc.
I also mark lakes that don’t have names and I title them Lake:Coordinates (ex. Lake 44.7875, -121.8075). While I list all lakes alphabetically I keep unnamed lakes together at the bottom of my spreadsheets and don’t list them under L for lake.
My main requirement is that I’m able to see a body of water on a satellite map, or the appearance of there having been one if it seems dry. I add it to my list to explore and check out.
Disclaimer
How it all began
There are multiple ways to explore the lakes list:
By name - in alphabetical order or by ranger district
Spreadsheet - with all pertinent information
Map
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Below are all the lakes in Malheur National Forest. I made two tabs where you can either look for a lake in alphabetical order or by ranger district.
Lakes
List of Lakes (alphabetically)
Big Meadow Reservoir
Blue Bucket Reservoir
Buck Spring Reservoir
Canyon Meadows
Dead Bull Reservoir
Dead Mule Reservoir
Delintment
Dicks Reservoir
Dry Mountain Reservoir
Egley Reservoir
Egypt Creek Reservoir
Frog
Gravelly Flat Reservoir
High
Kings Hole Reservoir
Little Mud
Little Slide
Little Strawberry
Magone
Meadow Reservoir
Mud
O'Keefe Reservoir
Pats Reservoir
Roadslide Reservoir
Slide
Strawberry
Three Pines Reservoir
Twin Reservoir
Twin Spring Reservoir
Yellowjacket
Lake 43.8830, -119.6209
Lake 43.9661, -119.6248
Lake 44.0123, -118.7724
Lake 44.0741, -118.5610
Lake 44.0763, -119.2457
Lake 44.0772, -119.2476
Lake 44.0853, -119.1717
Lake 44.0862, -119.1720
Lake 44.0946, -119.2308
Lake 44.0961, -119.2286
Lake 44.2428, -118.8674
Lake 44.2697, -118.6512
Lake 44.7298, -118.9503
List of Lakes (by ranger district or wilderness area)
Resources
Spreadsheet & CalTopo Map
I created a spreadsheet with all the detailed information on the lakes. I haven't put in any trail or distance information unless it's one I've been to so that it's as accurate as possible. I linked the list below.
The Google Maps further down the page is the easiest way to navigate to posts and get basic information by map, but I also have a map of lakes in CalTopo which is a better platform for planning routes and printing maps which I linked below as well.
Forest Service & ODFW
Map
Yellow - Lakes I have been to and I have a post about
Red - Lakes I haven't been to yet or don't have a post about
Orange - Lakes I haven't been to due to fire closures
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