A week ago, I challenged reader’s minds with the latest Where are we? Only one person, Jim Chapman came up with the correct answer. However, it should be noted Jim’s first answer was a toss up between Hog or McCoy Flat.
This small man-made lake is located approximately two miles east of the Eagle Lake Summit. In the late 1940s, the Paul Bunyan Lumber Company began logging operations in the region including Gallatin Peak and Round Valley. One of the company’s employees, Jim Coleman constructed a small dam on Piute Creek, near its headwaters. The small lake supplied the water used to wet down the logging roads, controlling the dust. It should be noted some maps have it spelled as Colman Lake.