GLEN ALPINE SPRINGS The earliest of all the resorts of the Tahoe region away from the shores of Tahoe itself, Glen Alpine Springs still retains its natural supremacy.

Located seven miles away from Tallac, reached by excellent roads in automobile stages, sequestered and sheltered, yet absolutely in the very heart of the most interesting part of the Tahoe region, scenically and geologically, it continues to attract an increasing number of the better class of guests that annually visit these divinely-favored California Sierras.

John Muir wrote truthfully when he said: The Glen Alpine Springs tourist resort seems to me one of the most delightful places in all the famous Tahoe region.

From no other valley, as far as I know, may excursions be made in a single day to so many peaks, wild gardens, glacier lakes, glacier meadows, and Alpine groves, cascades, etc.
The drive from Tallac around Fallen Leaf Lake under trees whose boles form arch or portal, framing pictures of the sunny lake, is a memorable experience; then on past Glen Alpine Falls, Lily Lake, and Modjeska Falls, up the deep mountain glen, where the road ends at the hospitable cottages, log-houses and spacious tents of Glen Alpine.
[Illustration: Mount Tallac, Rubicon Peaks, etc., from Long Wharf at Al Tahoe, Lake Tahoe] [Illustration: Al Tahoe Inn and Cottages, on Lake Tahoe] [Illustration: Murphey Cottage, Al Tahoe, on Lake Tahoe] [Illustration: Porterfield Cottage, Al Tahoe, on Lake Tahoe] Here is the world-famous spring, discovered in the 'fifties by Nathan Gilmore (for whom Gilmore Lake is named).

Mr.Gilmore was born in Ohio, but, when a mere youth, instead of attending college and graduating in law as his parents had arranged for and expected, he yielded to the lure of the California gold excitement, came West, and in 1850 found himself in Placerville.
In due time he married, and to the sickness of his daughter Evelyn, now Mrs.John L.Ramsay, of Freewater, Ore., is owing his discovery of Glen Alpine.