Lake Isabella

Name: Lake Isabella paragliding site
Address: US

South-facing ridge site · 1,031 m takeoff · 241 m height gain

Overview

Lake Isabella is a hill site in United States with a recorded launch elevation of 1,031 m. It works best in southerly winds, and can also work in south-easterly and south-westerly winds. Pilots fly it for ridge soaring, using foot launch and winch launch.

This is a pretty sweet ridge soaring site and with so much other stuff to do in the area you've got lots of options if it's not on. You can cruise pretty far West down the ridge, even jumping over the road. Source: ParaglidingEarth

When to go

Flyable days per month in a typical year.

Flyable days for Lake Isabella are on the way. We are scoring ten years of weather for every site, month by month, against this site, its region and the sites around it.

Local weather notes

If you fly in the morning watch out for wind strength increasing as the day goes on. It can get very windy here. Source: ParaglidingEarth

Getting there

Nearest airports

BFL Meadows Field64 km
BUR Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope Airport165 km
FAT Fresno Yosemite International Airport168 km

Public transport directions from Meadows Field (Google Maps)All travel options from Meadows Field (Rome2Rio)

Plan to reach the landing field or the nearest town to Lake Isabella; most takeoffs are reached by shuttle, cable car or a ride from a local pilot.

Things to do

For the days the wind is wrong: places worth a visit within 10 km of Lake Isabella.

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Flying nearby

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Flying Lake Isabella?

Takeoff, landing, rules, the hour by hour forecast and live wind are in the site details on the map.

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Sources

Short extracts from ParaglidingEarth. Read the full guide before you fly.