In the summer months it is also a public swimming beach and offers changing rooms, a picnic area, and a pavilion.

In 1928 a proposal was made by the Busch family to acquire the remaining parts of the point, in exchange for property further up the lake.

[4] In The Deerslayer, Three Mile Point is the location where Hetty Hutter docks to seek the Huron Indian camp which was further south at Muskrat Cove.

[4] As Cooper describes it: The whole projection into the lake contained about two acres of land, and the part that formed the point, and on which the camp was placed, did not compose a surface of more than half that size.

It had cut for itself a deep passage through some of the higher portions of the ground, and, in later days, when this spot has become subjected to the uses of civilization, by its windings and shaded banks, it has become no mean accessory in contributing to the beauty of the place....

The family discussed in chapter 14: "That point has been ours ever since civilized man has dwelt among these hills; who will presume to rob us of it?".