CCC Shelter Lake Owen

We were "up north" for the best of the fall colors and took a little side trip.  There were a couple of geocaches to locate, and we rewarded our efforts with a trip to the Delta Diner.

Along the way we stopped in at an old park shelter on the north side of Lake Owen, east of Drummond Wisconsin.

I knew about this one, as it came up in my readings about local Civilian Conservation Corps projects.  It's not clear which CCC camp built this, there being several in the area.  The date of construction was 1938.

Originally it had changing rooms for men and women and presumably enclosed sides.  It looks a bit different in 2020.

Inside is a nice stone fireplace.  CCC work always is big on using local stone.

Unfortunately not even stone lasts forever, and some bits have fallen off.

It is a nice park with few signs of civilization.  There are bathrooms, thankfully not of 1938 vintage, a hand pump for water, and a beach.  A bit more CCC stone work makes up the wall on one side of this.  

There is a fee to visit the park, but I think if you just parked and took a look at a nicely surviving CCC structure you would be justified in not dropping money in the honor system box.