The Old Badger

 The joy of the old pavilion still makes people smile

Editor’s note: This column was first published May 4, 1977.

The Three Mile Point pavilion was a simple wooden platform with a peaked roof – not very handsome – not on my list for historic preservation; yet it has been enjoyed for decades as a spot for everything from Sunday School picnics to rock-around-the-clock parties.

Summer “natives,” tourists and fishermen appreciated it for years. I hope it will be replaced. (Ed. Note: the original pavilion had recently been destroyed by fire.)

There have been other simple wooden structures hereabouts, which afforded great and lasting pleasure to many people of Otsego.

Two of them were near the southeast end of the lake. They are gone now but not quite forgotten, the Thousand Steps and the Outlook at Prospect Rock.