{{Short description|Alpine lake in the state of Idaho}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox body of water | name = Cove Lake | image = White Cloud Peaks, Sawtooth National Recreation Area ID.jpg | caption = Cove Lake (left) and Sapphire Lake (right) from Calkens Peak | image_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry = | location = Custer County, Idaho | coords = {{coord|44.101346|-114.608703|format=dms|type:waterbody_region:US-ID|display=inline,title}} | lake_type = Glacial | inflow = | outflow = Big Boulder Creek to East Fork Salmon River | catchment = | basin_countries = United States | length = {{convert|490|m|abbr=on}} | width = {{convert|315|m|abbr=on}} | area = | depth = | max-depth = | volume = | residence_time = | shore = | elevation = {{convert|3005|m|abbr=on}} | islands = | cities = <!-- Map --> | pushpin_map = Idaho#USA | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = Location of Cove Lake in Idaho, USA. | pushpin_map_caption = <!-- Below --> | website = | reference = }}

'''Cove Lake''' is an alpine lake in Custer County, Idaho, United States, located in the White Cloud Mountains in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The lake is accessed from Sawtooth National Forest trail 601.<ref>Sawtooth National Forest. "Sawtooth National Forest" [map].1:126,720, 1"=2 miles. Twin Falls, Idaho: Sawtooth National Forest, United States Forest Service, 1998.</ref>

Cove Lake is east of D. O. Lee Peak and next to Hook Lake. It is also upstream of Walker Lake and downstream of Snow, Boulder, Gentian, Sapphire, and Cirque Lakes as well as The Kettles.

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==See also== * List of lakes of the White Cloud Mountains * Sawtooth National Recreation Area * White Cloud Mountains

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Category:Lakes of Idaho Category:Lakes of Custer County, Idaho Category:Glacial lakes of the Sawtooth National Forest

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