Thone Lake

MU 8-14, Okanagan
49.4575° N, 118.8011° W

WaterTraced road inRoadRough surface roadRec siteShoreline from the BC Freshwater Atlas, roads from the BC Digital Road Atlas, under the Open Government Licence, British Columbia. Rec site position from BC Recreation Sites and Trails, checked 11 September 2026. The lake's depth is not drawn on this map.

Surface area: 9.8ha
Maximum depth: 15.8m; 52 ft
Elevation: 1,243m
Campsites: 9; At Thone Lake rec site

From the city of Kelowna , travel east on Hwy. # 33. Follow this road south to the community of Westbridge. Thone is located northeast of Westbridge on a secondary gravel road which leads right (east), off the main road to Christian Valley.

Open Thone Lake in the appThe 7-day forecast, max depth and wildfire smoke check, on the lake's own coordinate.

Thone Lake at a glance

Region: Okanagan
Management unit: MU 8-14
Species: Rainbow TroutThe newest of these fish records is from 2025.Species from the province's fish observation records.
Lake size: Small Water (< 50 ha)
Ice fishing: No ice fishing closure on file
Coordinates: 49.4575, -118.8011

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Fish on record at Thone Lake

Species in the Province's fish observation records
Species	First recorded	Last recorded	Records
Rainbow Trout	1967	2025	94

A year is when the Province last recorded the fish here, not a statement that it is caught today.

How to fish Thone Lake

Best times of year at Thone Lake

May - June
September - October

Thone Lake fishing regulations

We have no lake specific regulations on file for Thone Lake yet.

Getting to Thone Lake

Small BCFS campsites are scattered along the edge of the lake.

43.9 km of traced road to the campground by way of Thone Lake FSR, Lost Horse Creek Rd, Christian Valley Rd, Ouellette Creek FSR and Taurus Bull Lake FSR. The road at the end is a loose surface.

The route traced over the BC Digital Road Atlas. A trace is a line on a map, not a report on the road: check conditions before you drive it.

Coordinates: 49.4575, -118.8011

Camping and rec sites at Thone Lake

Thone Lake
Campsites
9 designated
To the shore
25 m

Access: Turn off Highway 33 onto Highway 43 (Christian Valley Road) at Westbridge. Reset odometer and follow Highway 43 for 27 km. Turn right onto Losthorse Creek Forest Service Road (FSR) for 0.1 km. Turn left onto Losthorse-Thone Lake FSR and drive 14.5 km to recreation site, stay on the main line, do not take any spur roads for recent logging.
Coordinates: 49.46069, -118.800666
The site on Recreation Sites and Trails BC

Depth chart for Thone Lake

15.8 mdeepest

Thone Lake runs to 15.8 m (52 ft) at its deepest.

The Province sounded Thone Lake and published the depth chart surveyed in 1971.

Depth chart (PDF)

The ice year at Thone Lake, modelled

Modelled from air temperature, not an ice report. It says nothing about whether ice will hold you.

In the model Thone Lake froze in 65 of the 65 winters since 1960. Freeze-up falls most years between 29 October and 10 November, and ice-off between 5 May and 23 May. The median winter freezes on 4 November and opens on 17 May.

the middle half of modelled winters the median ice cover in the median winter

Winter 2024-25 in the model: frozen from 3 November 2024 to 29 April 2025, 177 days.

No ice fishing closure is recorded for Thone Lake, so the general regional regulations apply.

Whether a lake is open to ice fishing says nothing about whether its ice will hold you. Ice conditions vary year to year and across a single lake. Check locally before going out, every time.

Thone Lake climate, 1960 to 2025

Averaged over a year, the air above Thone Lake is 1.1 C warmer than it was in the 1960s. That is 66 years of daily readings, not a forecast.

+1.1 Csince the 1960s
1.0 Caverage year now
-0.1 Caverage year then
-7 daysbelow freezing, change

Average year at Thone Lakedegrees C, yearly mean

each yearthe trend across 1960 to 2025

Days below freezingdays a year averaging under 0 C

each yearthe trend across 1960 to 2025

This week at Thone Lake

The forecast on this lake's own coordinate, refreshed through the day. The app reads these seven days for fishing and scores each one.

Day	Sky	High / low	Wind	Rain	Pressure
Tue 20 Oct	Overcast	12° / 2°	15 km/h	dry	Steady
Wed 21 Oct	Overcast	16° / 5°	13 km/h, gusts 22	dry	Falling (-4.9 hPa)
Thu 22 Oct	Overcast	15° / 2°	8 km/h, gusts 13	dry	Falling (-3.9 hPa)
Fri 23 Oct	Overcast	7° / -2°	18 km/h, gusts 32	dry	Rising (+10.6 hPa)
Sat 24 Oct	Overcast	8° / -3°	10 km/h	dry	Rising (+8.5 hPa)
Sun 25 Oct	Overcast	7° / -5°	8 km/h, gusts 17	dry	Rising (+2.2 hPa)
Mon 26 Oct	Mainly clear	10° / -4°	6 km/h	dry	Steady

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Thone Lake, in brief

What fish are in Thone Lake?

Rainbow Trout. Species from the province's fish observation records.

Which management unit is Thone Lake in?

Thone Lake is in MU 8-14, in the Okanagan. The BC Freshwater Fishing Regulations Synopsis is organised by management unit; check it before you go.

Trout lakes near Thone Lake

Collier Lake 11 km away
Martin Lake 12 km away
Hoodoo Lake 14 km away
Maloney Lake 15 km away
Cup Lake 15 km away

All 212 lakes in the Okanagan, with today's conditions on each.