Sleeping out-of-doors is one of the features of the place, an invigorating, rejuvenating joy, which Mark Twain affirmed was able to destroy any amount of fatigue that a person’s body could gather.  Visitors are given their choice of a comfortable bed in the open, in a cottage, tent, or one of the main buildings.  There are practically no rules at Glen Alpine save those that would operate in any respectable home.  No liquors are sold, and visitors are frankly told that “If they must have liquid stimulants they must bring them along.”  In order that those who desire to sleep may not be disturbed by the thoughtlessness of others, music is prohibited after ten o’clock.  One of the delights of the place is the nightly camp-fire.  Here is a large open space, close to the spring, surrounded by commodious and comfortable canvas seats, that will easily hold eight or ten persons, the blazing fire is started every evening.  Those who have musical instruments—­guitars, banjos, mandolins, flutes, cornets, violins, and even the plebeian accordion or the modest Jew’s-harp—­are requested to bring them.  Solos, choruses, hymns and college songs are indulged in to the heart’s content.  Now and again dances are given, and when any speaker arrives who is willing to entertain the guests, a talk, lecture or sermon is arranged for.

Three things are never found at Glen Alpine.  These are poison-oak, rattlesnakes and poisonous insects.  The rowdy, gambling and carousing element are equally absent, for should they ever appear, they speedily discover their lack of harmony and voluntarily retire.

While the Glen Alpine resort is not situated directly on one of the lakes, it owns over twenty boats on eight of the nearby lakes, and the use of these is freely accorded to its guests.  That it is in close proximity to lakes and peaks is evidenced by the following table, which gives the distance in miles from the hotel: 

Miles 2-1/2 Angora Lake 4 American Lake 6 Avalanche Lake 3-1/4 Alta Morris Lake 7 Azure Lake 5 Center Lake 5-1/2 Crystal Lake 5-3/4 Crater Lake 6 Cup Lake 4-3/4 Cathedral Lake 5-1/2 Echo Lake 2 Fallen Leaf Lake 5-1/4 Floating Island Lake 4-1/4 Forest Lake 6 Fontinalis Lake 1-1/4 Glen Alpine Falls 1-1/4 Grass Lake 4-3/4 Grouse Lake 3-1/2 Glmore Lake 3-1/4 Heather Lake 3-1/4 Half Moon Lake 5 Kalmia Lake 1 Lily Lake 2-1/4 Lucile Lake 3-3/4 LeConte Lake 2-1/2 Margery Lake 1/4 Modjeska Falls 3-1/2 Observation Point 4-1/4 Olney Lake 4-1/4 Pit Lake 6 Pyramid Lake 4-3/4 Rainbow Lake 2-3/4 Susie Lake 3-1/2 Susie Lake Falls 2-3/4 Summit Lake 6 Snow Lake

[Illustration:  Cluster of Tents, Glen Alpine Springs]

[Illustration:  Glen Alpine Falls, Near Glen Alpine Springs]

[Illustration:  In the ‘Good Old Days’.  Glen Alpine Stage approaching Office at Glen Alpine Springs]

Miles 4-1/4 Tamarack Lake 6 Tallac Lake 7 Tahoe Lake 6-1/2 Velma Lakes 3-1/4 Woods, Lake of the 3-1/2 Angora Peak 5-1/4 Dicks Peak 5-1/2 Jacks Peak 2-1/2 Keiths Dome 7 Pyramid Peak 6-1/2 Ralston Peak 3-3/4 Richardsons Peak 5 Upper Truckee River 4-3/4 Mt.  Tallac 7 Mt.  Agassiz 3 Cracked Crag