Otsego Lake is a lake located in Otsego County, New York in the USA and is the source of the Susquehanna River. Cooperstown, New York is at the southern end. Glimmerglass State Park is located on the northeastern shore. Glimmerglass Opera is located on the western shore.
The lake was known to James Fenimore Cooper as Glimmerglass and was a principal feature in several of his novels, including The Pioneers, The Deerslayer, and Last of the Mohicans in which one may find mention of such local landmarks as Council Rock and Sunken Island.
Hyde Hall, a mansion that was probably the largest in the United States at the time of its construction in 1817, overlooks the lake.
Otsego Lake is nine miles (14.5 km) long. It is geologically related to the Finger Lakes, but is not counted among them. One significant difference is that Otsego Lake is situated at a significantly higher elevation (1191 feet) than the Finger Lakes (approximately 400 feet).
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“They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and the Constitution, and drink at it there with reverence and humility; but they who behold where it comes trickling into this lake or that pool, gird up their loins once more, and continue their pilgrimage toward its fountain-head.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)