 From the 1960s through the 1980s the community featured a volunteer fire department, a general store, a seasonal municipal water supply, two neighboring horseback riding academies, a large pool area, a synagogue, and a multi-purpose meeting house.Mountain Lodge Road which is paved owned and maintained by the Town of Blooming Grove.In Mountain Lodge Park, Mountain Lodge Road begins just after Oakwood Trail both North and South and Water Tank Road in this order, Cascade Trail, Echo Trail, Woodland Circle South, Woodland Circle North, Silver trail (leads to Brookside Trail), Utopian Trail, Emerald Trail, Arcadian Trail (which leads into Arbor Trail, Stanton Trail, Gloria Trail)Sylvan Trail( which leads to Trail), Laurel Trail (leads to Sunset Trail), Hillcrest Trail, Paradise Trail(Location of the Mountain Lodge volunteer Fire Department, Orchard Trial, Higgins Trail, Cedar Trail, Hillside Trail, Underhill Trail, Grandview Trial, Valley Trail, bearing to the right Moran Trail, Brook Trail, then exits Mountain Lodge Park and cuts a winding path to nearby Clove Road.