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Bay Lake Florida Map

Explore Bay Lake, Florida, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Bay Lake, Florida

How to Use This Bay Lake, Florida Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Bay Lake, Florida. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Florida or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Bay Lake.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

CityBay Lake
StateFlorida (FL)
CountyLake County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/New_York)
Latitude28.389224
Longitude-81.578369
Population29
Density0.5 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Codes33618, 32134, 32830
Area Code850, 904
County SeatTavares
School DistrictOrange County School District

About Bay Lake, Florida

Bay Lake is a locality in Lake County, Florida, United States. It is a small community with a population of 29. The population density is 0.5 people per km². Bay Lake is located at 28.3892°N, 81.5784°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Bay Lake is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 33618, 32134, 32830.

Bay Lake emerges from the flat, humid expanse of the Florida interior as a landscape defined by the quiet persistence of palmetto scrub and dense, moisture-laden woodlands. It lies 6.5 miles south-southwest of Groveland, FL (from Groveland, FL: bearing 211°T), and is situated 9.5 miles west-southwest of Clermont. The air here holds a heavy, subtropical weight, thickening as the afternoon sun pulls vapor from the earth and creates a shimmering haze across the horizon. A few miles to the west, the Little Withlacoochee River traces a slow, meandering path through the low-lying terrain, its dark waters reflecting the towering canopy of cypress that defines the regional silhouette. Beyond the immediate thickets, the land transitions into a vast, grassy plain where the light at dusk turns a bruised, electric purple, a lingering reminder that this region experiences the most frequent lightning strikes in the nation.

Bay Lake occupies a space where the remnants of agricultural ambition meet the encroaching stillness of the wilderness, maintaining a pace dictated by the seasons rather than the clock. The nearby General James A. Van Fleet State Trail serves as a primary artery for the region, repurposing the infrastructure of commerce into a quiet corridor for those who traverse the landscape on foot or cycle. While Sumner Lake rests seven miles away as a distant, glassy interruption to the brush, the local economy remains tethered to the rhythms of the soil and the maintenance of the sprawling greenery that stretches toward the Withlacoochee State Forest. Life in Bay Lake feels anchored by this proximity to the wild, where the encroachment of modern development is softened by the constant, encroaching presence of native flora and the slow, deliberate movement of the inland heat.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Walt Disney's Gulfstream 1 (Attraction) — 1.0 mi, 215° SW
  • Lane Thomas Memorial (Monument) — 1.6 mi, 341° N
  • Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue (Attraction) — 1.8 mi, 033° NE
  • Living With The Land (Attraction) — 1.9 mi, 124° SE
  • Town Square Theater (Attraction) — 1.9 mi, 356° N
  • Walt Disney World (Monument) — 1.9 mi, 355° N
  • Walt the Dreamer (Public Artwork) — 2.0 mi, 120° SE
  • Partners (Monument) — 2.0 mi, 355° N
  • Happily Ever After Fireworks Spectacular (Theatre) — 2.1 mi, 355° N
  • Gallery of Arts and History (Gallery) — 2.2 mi, 132° SE
  • Luminous: The Symphony of Us (Theatre) — 2.2 mi, 127° SE
  • Belle's Castle (Historic Castle / Fort) — 2.2 mi, 356° N
  • Mexico Folk Art Gallery (Gallery) — 2.2 mi, 123° SE
  • Bijutsu-kan Gallery (Gallery) — 2.3 mi, 132° SE
  • Balloon Rides (Viewpoint) — 3.9 mi, 203° SW
  • Tibet-Butler Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 4.2 mi, 029° NE
  • Oak Island Nature Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 4.9 mi, 222° SW
  • Unknown Park (Local Park) — 5.2 mi, 204° SW
  • Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (Cinema) — 5.6 mi, 086° E
  • Northeast Regional Park (Local Park) — 6.6 mi, 230° SW
  • Hilochee Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.9 mi, 245° SW
  • Orca Encounter (Stadium) — 7.1 mi, 080° E
  • Jewels of the Sea Aquarium (Aquarium) — 7.4 mi, 077° E
  • Lake Louisa State Park (State Recreation Area) — 8.0 mi, 285° W
  • Seminole State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 9.3 mi, 325° NW
  • Osprey Unit (State Conservation Area) — 12.9 mi, 202° S
  • Lake Wales Ridge National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 17.8 mi, 176° S · 3,792 acres
  • Wekiwa Springs State Park (State Park) — 22.4 mi, 013° N
  • Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge And Conservation Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 25.6 mi, 168° S · 11k acres
  • Ocala National Forest (National Forest) — 36.8 mi, 008° N · 385k acres

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About This Bay Lake Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bay Lake, Florida. Coordinates: 28.389224, -81.578369. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Bay Lake includes the ZIP code (33618, 32134, 32830), telephone area code (850, 904), county seat of Lake County (Tavares), and school district assignment (Orange County School District).

Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.

Page generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.