Since Woodard's has been there much longer, most of the lake's residents service and store their boats there. I drive north past the channel to the south end of the lake. The first place I come to is the Point of Pines. There used to be three hotels on this side of the lake, back when the tourists came west from the Hudson River on steamboat and then across from Albany by train. But the automobile and the highway system have long since made such hotels unnecessary.
Today there are marinas, summer homes, and boating accesses.
Up the hill to my left is the site of the Kehoe Conservation Camp, where I work in the summer to teach kids about hunting, fishing, outdoor recreation, and natural resources. There is a small beach on my right where we swim, fish, and put in our canoes. Across from this beach, on the other side of the bay is the sand bar. On hot summer days, boaters congregate there because there are no weeds to swim through, it is shallow enough to stand, and it is a good place to snorkel and dive for clams. Farther north on Creek Road is Green Dump and the Bomoseen State Park.