Chain O'Lakes State Park (Indiana)

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Chain O'Lakes State Park, Indiana, USA
IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape)
Map of the U.S. state of Indiana showing the location of Chain O'Lakes State Park
Location	Noble County, Indiana, USA
Nearest city	Albion, Indiana
Coordinates	41°19′59″N 85°22′50″W / 41.33306, -85.38056
Area	2,718 acres (11.00 km²)
Established	1960
Visitors	270,583 (in 2003-2004)
Governing body	Indiana Department of Natural Resources

For the similarly-named state park in Illinois, see Chain O'Lakes State Park (Illinois).

Chain O' Lakes is an Indiana state park on 2,718 acres (11.00 km²) in Noble County, Indiana, in the United States. The park is 19 miles (31 km) northwest of Fort Wayne.

As the name suggests, it is a park for boaters, with eight connecting lakes, and eleven lakes total. The lakes are kettle lakes, formed by receding ice sheets of the Pleistocene Epoch, which also made the steeply rolling hills and bogs of the park. Bowen Lake is the deepest at 65 feet (20 m), and the shallowest is Dock Lake at 2 feet (1 m) deep. Outwash sediments, sediment from Canada, and muck/peat filled bogs caused by the glaciers are accessible by the hiking trails.

Cross-country skiing is available in the winter.

[edit] References

Chain O'Lakes State Park. Indiana Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved on 2008-05-25. (Official Site)

Statistics: Parks & Reservoirs Visitation. Indiana Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved on 2007-04-02.

United States Geological Survey. Chain O'Lakes State Park, USGS Merriam (IN) Topo Map. TopoZone. Retrieved on 2007-04-02.

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