Squaw Lake, John Muir Wilderness

Squaw Lake is a small lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada, near the John Muir Trail in John Muir Wilderness. It is located 1.8 miles west-northwest of Mount Izack Walton and 5 miles north-northeast of Lake Thomas A Edison. at an altitude of 10,315 feet. The outflow of Squaw Lake becomes Fish Creek, which eventually joins the Middle Fork of the San Joaquin River. The name is controversial because squaw is an ethnic and sexual slur, historically used for indigenous North American women. ()