French Meadows Reservoir is a manmade lake 36 miles (58 km) northeast of Foresthill, California, United States on the Middle Fork of the American River.

The reservoir is entirely within a state game refuge so no firearms, pellet guns or archery weapons are allowed.

The elevation of the lake is 5,263 feet (1,604 m), and it is nine miles (14 km) from the crest of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range.

[1] The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has developed a safe eating advisory for French Meadows Reservoir based on levels of mercury found in fish caught here.

[2] The reservoir was built in December 1964 (60 years ago) (1964-12) with the construction on the Middle Fork of the American River of the L. L. Anderson Dam.