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Deam Lake State Recreation Area. Deam Lake State Recreation Area is an Indiana State Recreation Area in Clark County, Indiana in the United States. The park is 1,300 acres (530 ha) and sits at an elevation of 535 feet (163 m). [1] Deam Lake State Recreation area is open for year-round recreation, however the campground closes each year from the ...
Indiana Dunes State Park is an Indiana State Park located in Porter County, Indiana, United States, 47 miles (75.6 km) east of Chicago.The park is bounded by Lake Michigan to the northwest and is surrounded by as well as within the authorized boundaries of Indiana Dunes National Park, a unit of the National Park Service; the NPS owns the water from the ordinary high water mark to 300 feet (91 ...
A wagon wheel grown into the V of a deceased Ash tree, near the boat launch on Long Lake (2012). Chain O'Lakes is an Indiana state park on 2,718 acres (11.00 km 2) in Noble County, Indiana, in the United States. The park is located near the towns of Albion and Avilla and is 19 miles (31 km) northwest of the northeastern Indiana's major city ...
5. Pokagon State Park. Pokagon State Park, a little over an hour east of South Bend off of I-69, in Angola, Ind., had about 710,000 visitors last year and is Indiana’s fifth state park.
The town established a post office in 1851 but was discontinued that same year. [10] As Indiana's fourth largest natural lake, Lake James is large enough to be the site of a state park and multiple boat ramps. [11] The lake has a surface area of 1,229 acres (497 ha), and about 17.5 miles (28.2 kilometres) of shoreline. [12]
Brown County State Park. / 39.11361°N 86.26472°W / 39.11361; -86.26472. Brown County State Park is located in the United States in the center of the southern half of the state of Indiana. The park is by far the largest of 24 state parks in Indiana, and occupies 15,776 acres (63.84 km 2 )—making it one of the larger state parks in ...
The first state park in Indiana was McCormick's Creek State Park, in Owen County in 1916, followed in the same year by Turkey Run State Park in Parke County. The number of state parks rose steadily in the 1920s, mostly by donations of land from local authorities to the state government. Of the initial twelve parks, only Muscatatuck State Park ...
Operated by. Indiana Department of Natural Resources. Visitors. 86,862 (in 2018–2019) [ 2] Website. Official Website. Shades State Park is a state park in Montgomery, Parke, and Fountain Counties in Indiana. It is located 47 miles (76 km) west-northwest of Indianapolis, Indiana. In 2018–2019, Shades received nearly 87,000 visitors.