Arrowhead Park is located right in the center of downtown Inlet on Route 28 and beautiful Fourth Lake and is always a surprise to visitors coming to our area for the first time. The park has a picnic area with tables and gas burners for cooking, a clean bath house, a children's play area with the latest equipment, a baseball field with bleachers and dugouts, tennis courts, a boardwalk along the channel to Fifth Lake, a beach for sunbathing and swimming with a lifeguard on duty each day during the summer season, a lovely expanse of well manicured grass with planting of wildflowers here and there, many evergreen trees for shade, and many benches to rest on and enjoy the view of the lake and the mountains that surround it. In the evening the sunset is spectacular from this point and on the weekends there is live music to entertain one and all.
Another interesting bit of information is about the murder of Grace Brown. "An American Tragedy", by Theodore Dreiser is a book written about that murder. The murder took place in Punkey Bay on Big Moose Lake in 1906. Three days later, Chester Gillette was arrested at the Arrowhead Hotel in Inlet, the site of the present Arrowhead Park. Chester Gillette was sentenced to die on the electric chair in Auburn, New York. This being the 100th anniversary of this murder, watch for special events and activities in the Big Moose and surrounding area thisz summer.
