Medicine Lake

Medicine Lake, is 6 km (31/2 mi.) long, and appears to have no outflow to speak of at its northern end, yet the water level varies greatly during the course of the year. In late autumn the lake is almost empty, with only a trickle of water meandering between the mud banks on the lake bed, to seep away at the north-east side of the basin. This phenomenon was a mystery to the local Indians, and their medicine men took advantage of it, hence the name Medicine Lake.