![]() Keep right at the next junction on a bench above the lake. Ignore the path going left before the next creek, and follow the trail up the slope. High above to the left, you’ll notice a waterfall tumbling over the rim, and then you’ll cross a small creek. Dense salmonberry thickets prevent actual shore access. When you reach the bottom of the slope, keep left at two junctions, and then make another left turn at the last junction to follow the trail above Fallen Leaf Lake’s shore. Soon, drop down the gully past an old cistern, make a traverse, rise up the slope, and then begin dropping down a ridge line on a sometimes braided trail, getting glimpses of Fallen Leaf Lake through the trees. Keep winding up, and then make a traverse before heading up a gully. Switchback three more times in a mixed forest of Douglas-fir, cedar, hemlock, and maple with an understory of sword fern and Oregon grape. Reach a junction at a large maple tree: to do a winding loop up the slope past larger trees, make a left here.Ī few yards later, go right up the slope, and switchback onto an old road bed at a large Douglas-fir. Just before a softball field, go right and switchback down to a bottomland of mossy big-leaf maples and blackberry vines. Continue up the slope, keeping left at junctions. The woods here are choked with ivy and tall holly bushes. At a junction keep left, and then go right at the next junction. There is a confusing mix of trails in the forest here, many of them designed for mountain bikers. Past the winter gate, a trail leads left at a pet waste dispenser. Continue towards the lakeshore, and then turn left back past the picnic shelter and across the main parking area. Return to find a trail that takes you up over the low ridge and across a games field with picnic tables. Reach slough-like Fallen Leaf Creek, which connects Fallen Leaf Lake with Lacamas Lake. ![]() Now that the area is a public park, the name has been changed to invoke more positive connotations, and a trail system, including a winding tangle of mountain bike trails, has been developed.įrom the winter parking area, take the footpath leading north along a low ivy ridge under a canopy of Douglas-fir. It is unclear whether it was these mysterious circumstances or that fact that there was a cemetery on site which gave the lake its name. According to local legend, some of the drowning victims’ bodies were never recovered. As a recreational site, Dead Lake had been morbidly famous for an unknown number of drownings, with claims that the aquatic plants had tangled swimmers and dragged them down into the unmeasured depths. In that year, however, the graves were exhumed and their contents transported to the Camas Cemetery. The space had been used as a park exclusively for Georgia-Pacific employees and, prior to 1984, part of the area had been the site of the Dead Lake/Camas Catholic Cemetery. Fallen Leaf Lake Road, Fallen Leaf Lodge and Glen Alpine Springs can be seen below on the 1917 California State Automobile Association Map.In 2011, the City of Camas purchased the 55 acres surrounding Dead Lake, now renamed Fallen Leaf Lake, from the Georgia-Pacific Corporation. The emergence of the South Lincoln Highway would bring regular summer automotive traffic to the Lake Tahoe region which led to the emergence of Fallen Leaf Lake Road. ![]() Originally visitors to Fallen Leaf Lodge were brought to the site by way of barge from the north shore of Fallen Leaf Lake. Upon the property dispute being resolved Price would begin construction of cabins which would form the basis of Fallen Leaf Lodge during 1907. During 1905 Price began to construct permanent structures at his camp on Fallen Leaf Lake which led to a property line dispute. This change in business format began to draw visitors to Price's campground from the nearby Glen Alpine Springs Resort.Īt the behest of the Glen Alpine Springs Resort, Price would relocate his camp to the shore of Fallen Leaf Lake. When Price married his campground became accessible to the family members of the boys who stayed there. Price would settle near Fallen Leaf Lake in 1896 when he constructed a boy's camp near Glen Alpine Springs. Price, a graduate of Stanford University. The development of Fallen Leaf Lake is heavily associated with William W. Fallen Leaf Lake is part of the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit of the National Forest Service. Given the glacial origin of Fallen Leaf Lake it has average depth of about 240 feet. Fallen Leaf Lake was formed by two glaciers which once extended north from Glen Alpine Valley. Part 1 the history of California State Route 188 on Fallen Leaf Lake Roadįallen Leaf Lake is an oval shaped lake which is approximately 2.9 miles long in a north/south direction and as wide as 0.9 miles east/west.
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