page_title: Elizabeth Lake (Los Angeles County, California)
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Elizabeth Lake (Los Angeles County, California) / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Lake Elizabeth is dry after years of drought.
context_page_description: Elizabeth Lake is a natural lake that lies directly on the San Andreas Fault in the northern Sierra Pelona Mountains, in northwestern Los Angeles County, southern California.
context_section_description: The lake, at 984 m (3,228 ft) in elevation, is within the Angeles National Forest. It is a natural perennial lake, but may dry up entirely during drought years. It is south of the western Antelope Valley.
  Elizabeth Lake is one of a series of sag ponds created by the motion of the Earth's tectonic plates along the San Andreas Fault in the area, with others including Hughes Lake and the Munz Lakes.  They are part of the northern upper Santa Clara River watershed.
  The community of Elizabeth Lake is on the shore of the lake.  It is administratively within the unincorporated community of Lake Hughes, and shares the same zip code.
caption: Lake Elizabeth as seen from the air.
exif: {"Image ImageWidth": "3264", "Image ImageLength": "1836", "Image Make": "samsung", "Image Model": "SM-G900V", "Image Orientation": "Rotated 180", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "G900VVRU2DPF4", "Image DateTime": "2016:09:11 09:52:19", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image ExifOffset": "226", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "3146", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "4638", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/864", "EXIF FNumber": "11/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "40", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2016:09:11 09:52:19", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2016:09:11 09:52:19", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "39/4", "EXIF ApertureValue": "227/100", "EXIF BrightnessValue": "841/100", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "57/25", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Average", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire", "EXIF FocalLength": "24/5", "EXIF SubSecTime": "872", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "872", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "872", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "3264", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1836", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "3022", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "31", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF ImageUniqueID": "881ea0697428df8b0000000000000000"}