FALLEN LEAF LAKE AND ITS RESORTS Fallen Leaf Lake is a noble body of water, three and a half miles long and about one mile across.

Why it is called Fallen Leaf is fully explained in the chapter on Indian Legends.

Some people have thought it was named from its shape, but this cannot be, for, from the summit of Mt.

Tallac, every one instantly notices its resemblance to the imprint of a human foot.

It is shaped more like a cork-sole, as if cut out of the solid rock, filled up with a rich indigo-blue fluid, and then made extra beautiful and secluded with a rich tree and plant growth on every slope that surrounds it.
The color of the water is as richly blue as is Tahoe itself, and there is the same suggestion of an emerald ring around it, as in the larger Lake, though this ring is neither so wide nor so highly colored.
In elevation it is some 80 feet above Lake Tahoe, thus giving it an altitude of 6300 feet.
At the upper end, near Fallen Leaf Lodge, under the cliffs it has a depth of over 380 feet, but it becomes much shallower at the northern or lower end near the outlet.