{{Short description| Lake in the state of California, United States}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox body of water | name = Dingleberry Lake | native_name = | native_name_lang = | other_name = <!-- Images --> | image = | alt = | caption = | image_bathymetry = | alt_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry = <!-- Stats --> | location = John Muir Wilderness / Inyo National Forest / Inyo County, California | group = | coordinates = {{coord|37.1822|-118.6374|type:waterbody_region:US-CA|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | type = Lake | etymology = | part_of = | inflow = | rivers = | outflow = | oceans = | catchment = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | basin_countries = | agency = | designation = | date-built = <!-- {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} For man-made and other recent bodies of water --> | engineer = | date-flooded = <!-- {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} For man-made and other recent bodies of water --> | length = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | width = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | area = {{convert|5.098|acres|ha|abbr=on}} | depth = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | max-depth = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | volume = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | residence_time = | salinity = | shore = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | elevation = {{convert|10495|ft|m|abbr=on}} | temperature_high = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | temperature_low = <!-- {{convert|VALUE|UNITS}} must be used --> | frozen = | islands = | islands_category = | sections = | trenches = | benches = | cities = <!-- Map --> | pushpin_map = California | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = Location of the lake in California. | pushpin_map_caption = <!-- Below --> | website = | reference = <ref name="GNIS" /><ref name="fish" /> }} '''Dingleberry Lake''' is a natural lake in Inyo County, California, in the United States.<ref name="GNIS" >{{GNIS|259375}}</ref> The lake was so named on account of dingleberries hanging on the rear of sheep in the area.<ref>{{cite book|last=Browning|first=Peter|title=Sierra Nevada Place Names: From Abbot to Zumwalt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s9wCc9mTMdEC&pg=PA65|year=2011|publisher=Great West Books|isbn=978-0-944220-23-8|page=65|quote=...christened the lake for the dingleberries on the hind ends of his sheep.}}</ref>
The Sabrina Lake Trail leads hikers to Dingleberry Lake.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.fs.usda.gov/r05/inyo/recreation | title=Sabrina Lake Trail | publisher=United States Forest Service | access-date=4 February 2015}}</ref> Dingleberry Lake is a popular camping site.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Morey|first1=Kathy|last2=White|first2=Mike|last3=Corless|first3=Stacey|author4=Analise Elliot Heid|title=Sierra South: Backcountry Trips in Californias Sierra Nevada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=juT7U4Clb6IC&pg=PA239|date=6 June 2006|publisher=Wilderness Press|isbn=978-0-89997-414-9|page=239}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Adkison|first=Ron|title=Hiking Northern California|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=liIxfEhuc_MC&pg=PA131|year=2000|publisher=Globe Pequot Press|isbn=978-1-56044-701-6|page=131}}</ref> The lake contains a population of brook trout.<ref>{{cite book|last=Morrison|first=Wilbur H.|title=Adventure Guide to the Sierra Nevada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QdZlcmWWe9cC&pg=PA43|year=1998|publisher=Hunter Publishing, Inc|isbn=978-1-55650-845-5|page=43}}</ref><ref name="fish">{{cite web | url=https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5410679.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014032800/http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5410679.pdf | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 14, 2013 | title=Eastern Sierra Back Country Fishing Guide | publisher=State of California Natural Resources Agency, Department of Fish and Game}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|California}} * List of lakes in California
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Lakes of Inyo County, California Category:Lakes of California Category:Lakes of Northern California
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