A 1930s hand-built bath house, now the park's interpretive center telling the story of the men who built nearly everything around you. Old photographs, tools, and names inside. Open roughly April to September, 10 to 4.
That low building tucked into the trees at Bowman Bay started life as a bath house, built by hand in the nineteen thirties so swimmers had somewhere to change. Today it's the park's interpretive center, and the story it tells is the story of the men who poured the foundations of nearly everything around you. Pull in if the doors are open, roughly April through September, ten in the morning to four in the afternoon. Step inside and you'll find the old photographs, the tools, the names of the young men who came here in the depths of the Great Depression and left a state park behind them. It's a small room, but it carries a lot. Boone's about to take you back to those years himself, so let the engine idle a moment. Picture the bay before any of it was built, and a few hundred fellows in work shirts deciding to make it last.