Take a look at the lodge

Mosquito Lake, built in central Trumbull County during World War II as a flood-control project, has been gradually expanded as an asset to the area.
It is a municipal drinking water source. A wildlife refuge. A boating and fishing resource. The site of a state park, where there are improved campsites and a beach.
Still, it is not difficult to see that the 4,000-acre lake and its surrounding property offer greater potential for development.
The construction of a lodge at Mosquito Lake State Park is an exciting prospect.
Unfortunately, the state no longer builds lodges on its own; that job now falls to local entities, who proceed with development in a partnership with the state.
Ashtabula County commissioners were the first in the state to take up the challenge, successfully overseeing development of the $16.7 million lodge and convention center that opened last year in Geneva State Park.
The Trumbull 100, a group of Trumbull County business people that has been active in a wide range of economic development and quality-of-life projects in the county, is pushing for a feasibility study of Mosquito Lake lodge. The study would cost between $80,000 and $100,000.
Funding plan
State Rep. Randy Law is expected to get $25,000 from the state, the Trumbull 100 has pledged a matching amount, Cortland city and Bazetta and Mecca Townships are expected to provide varying amounts, and the county is being asked to provide $20,000.
These are tough economic times, but we would encourage the Trumbull County commissioners to fund the county's share of the study.
At first glance, it would seem obvious that a lodge would be a valuable asset. But a feasibility study done by an independent company with expertise in gauging the potential for a lakeside lodge in the center of the county is necessary.
Inevitably, a few voices will be raised opposing such an expenditure. Those same voices are heard any time there is a suggestion that Trumbull County or the Mahoning Valley could be more tomorrow than it is today.
Commissioners, however, have a responsibility to lead the county into the future. If it takes a feasibility study to see what that future might look like and some political courage to go forward from there, that's what commissioners should be expected to do.