Our Lake

Song Lake is a small lake situated on the eastern edge of the Finger Lakes Region. Song Lake is one of a number of kettle lakes that were formed at the same time as the finger lakes. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the area was formed by the advancing and retreating of glacial ice during the last glacial period in North America. Kettle lakes are smaller holes that formed when huge chunks of ice broke off the glacier. When these ice chunks melted, the depressions remained.

Song Lake has no outlet or inlet, but is fed by precipitation, surface water runoff and groundwater. This small lake is an oval of approximately 110 acres. Most of the lake is fairly shallow, with depths from five to thirty feet. There is approximately 2.2 miles of shoreline with 1.6 miles of residences (about 80 homes) and 0.6 miles belonging to Camp Hoover (The Girl Scouts of America) which occupies the southern 3/4 of the eastern shoreline. The GSA also owns the small island in the lake.