The culture of old fashioned lake living is reflected in the quaint and charming lakeside towns of Kosciusko County.
For it's here, in an age of chain hotels and restaurants as well as big box stores, where main streets are lined with small family owned shops and diners and along the water's edge are old fashioned neatly kept motels and resorts that seem reminiscent of an era long gone.

One such place, favored by John Dillinger, Al Capone, and Clark Gable and his wife Carole Lombard (who had grown up in nearby Fort Wayne) is the Barbee Hotel. No longer a place to spend the night, their first floor restaurant is top notch gourmet and second floor is a great casual restaurant.

Entertainment can be as simple as sitting on the shore and watching the water ski teams, a mainstay on both Webster and Hidden Lakes, perform for free. Take a ride on the Dixie, a paddleboat from the early 1900s that once delivered groceries and mail to people who lived on Webster Lake.