Course
It sits in a basin bordered to the southwest and west by the Elsinore Mountains, which are a part of the larger Santa Ana Mountain Range.
Elsinore's northwestern shore rises to the foothills of the mountains and the saddle between them and the line of hills that closely enclose the lake along its northeastern shore until they decline and end short near the shore of the Aberhill Creek outlet from the lake that passes through downtown Lake Elsinore.
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