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Brookwood Point

6000 State Highway 80
West Lake Road
Cooperstown, NY 13326

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Conservation Area: Otsego Lake
Protected: October 2011
Size: 22 Acres

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Brookwood activities, hiking, kayaking, fishing, great views and accessible trails

Amenities

Brookwood Point offers a unique array of experiences in one, perfect location. Brookwood’s 22 acres make up a diverse ecosystem: magical and historic Italianate gardens, lake shores, creek, woods, and wetlands. Each component creates a different habitat, making Brookwood a melting pot of wildlife.

Brookwood features an ADA-accessible trail, and canoe and kayak rentals through Canoe & Kayak Rentals and Sales. There is ample parking, with accessible parking at the lower level. Otsego Area Rowing offers rowing opportunities, for pleasure or competition, and coaching for people of all ages at Brookwood. Otsego Area Rowing brings the many benefits of rowing to everyone, regardless of age, experience, and ability. The property is accessible for adaptive sports.

Brookwood Point is dog friendly, except in the formal gardens. Dogs must be kept on a leash at all times on the property.

Diverse Ecosystem

The property is unique in that it hosts a diversified ecosystem: meadows and fields, seasoned and young woods, wetlands, shorefront, lake, creek, and historic cultivated gardens. Each component of the 22-acre property creates a different habitat, making Brookwood a melting pot of wildlife! Some of our most special residents include nesting bald eagles.

Photo by Brian Ward

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Be a Friend to Nature…

HISTORIC: Brookwood Point has been an established estate on the shores Otsego Lake within the Glimmerglass Historic District, built in the early 1820's and is home to a 100-year-old Italianate Renaissance garden. Importantly, Brookwood has multiple historic features including a historic Garden House and an impressive historic garden designed in the Shipman era.

Brookwood Point Conservation Area: Important to our Region

is protected forever under a conservation easement, and is owned and managed by Otsgeo Land Trust.

“Native Americans inhabiting the Otsego Lake watershed called the lake O-TE-SA-GA. It provided them with an abundance of food and water. It is certainly our area's greatest natural resource. Currently, Otsego Lake's 74 square mile watershed is home to more than 5,000 people, enjoying its beauty and bounty. The Lake is also the beginning or “headwaters” of the mighty Susquehanna River, which runs from our Leatherstocking Country via Pennsylvania to the Chesapeake Bay. It is the single largest freshwater source for that magnificent bay. en thousand years ago Otsego Lake was formed when a tongue of the continental glacier scoured out the Susquehanna River Valley and the Finger Lakes Region. Glacial scouring exposed limestone which has protected the lake by neutralizing the effects of acid rain. The limestone in the watershed and basin of Otsego Lake is dissolved by the waters flowing into it where it settles to the lake bottom as white marl.” - Biological Field Station in Cooperstown, part of SUNY Oneonta

“Glimmerglass…” “a broad sheet of water, so placid and limpid that it resembled a bed of the pure mountain atmosphere, compressed into a setting of hills and woods…” - James Fenimore Cooper

Brookwood is an outdoor classroom, brimming with opportunities for experiences in nature. Otsego Land Trust maintains this gem as an open space for the arts, cultural events, children’s educational activities, weddings, and community programs. Brookwood is located on a point on Otsego Lake exactly where the headwaters of the historical and cultural Chesapeake watershed are.

Weddings and Private Events

You can host an enchanting wedding, beautiful baby shower, stunning bridal shower, impressive business party, or elegant birthday party at a secret lakeside garden in Cooperstown, New York. Brookwood Point's historic lakefront gardens, stone walls, and fantastic rolling hillside views make it a wonderful place to gather and celebrate.

Brookwood Point Conservation Area is owned and managed by Otsego Land Trust. As a non-profit, we work to improve the quality of life throughout the Upper Susquehanna region by working with landowners and partners to protect and conserve fields, forests, and waterways forever.

By renting Brookwood Point, your event benefits a good cause.

The space includes an informational kiosk at the entrance, an upper garden area, a lower garden area where tents may be placed, a lower terrace right on the lake shore edge with iron café tables and chairs right, and a charming garden house with a balcony. There is a separate rental fee for interior use of the garden house, the use of which users will be considered on a case-by-case basis. It offers a utility area for your vendors to work from, ample guest parking, several electric hookups, hose bibs and one restroom with ramped access.

Learn more about renting the space on our Brookwood Point Venue page.