Mahood Lake

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Mahood Lake
Location	South Cariboo, British Columbia
Coordinates	51°55′00″N, 120°24′00″WCoordinates: 51°55′00″N, 120°24′00″W
Primary inflows	Canim River
Primary outflows	Mahood River
Basin countries	Canada
Max. length	20.5 km
Surface area	33.5 km²
Surface elevation	629 m

Mahood Lake is a lake in the South Cariboo region of the Interior of British Columbia. It is drained via Mahood Falls by the Mahood River, a tributary of the Clearwater River, which cuts a deep canyon into the Wells Gray-Clearwater Volcanic Field holding the lake and forming the falls. It is fed by the short Canim River, which drains nearby Canim Lake to the west via Canim Falls.

The lake is 629 metres in elevation, approximately 33.5 sq km in area, 20.5 km in length (E-W) and an average of 1.4 km in width. Mount Mahood is immediately south of the lake.

Mahood Lake is at the southwest corner of Wells Gray Provincial Park.

The namesake of the lake and related features was James Adams Mahood, a surveyor with the Canadian Pacific Railway survey parties of the 1870s, who traversed this area investigating a possible route from Yellowhead Pass to Quesnellemouthe (today's City of Quesnel on the Fraser River. Mahood actively surveyed all areas of British Columbia from 1871 to 1891.