About the Crooked Lake Ecology Center

Crooked Lake Ecology Center LLC was founded in 2018 to provide a gathering place for exploring the ecology of the hills southeast of Keuka Lake. We are located on a high ridge east of Keuka Lake and Pleasant Valley, the valley formed by the inlet to Keuka Lake. The ridge is called Mt. Washington. The high point of the ridge is the highest point in a 20 mile radius which gives us good views of the surrounding hills in all directions.

At the Crooked Lake Ecology Center we maintain the gardens and the old farmhouse restored by Bill and Martha Treichler when they moved here in 1975. We also maintain the website archives for the Crooked Lake Review which Bill and Martha founded in May 1988 and which was published through July 2008, the month of Bill's death. The first edition of Martha and Bill's book, Stories of Mt. Washington, was reprinted in the Fall 2007 issue of the Crooked Lake Review. The second edition of Stories of Mt. Washington was released in August 2010 and is available at the Steuben County Historical Society.