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Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College is located just south of Wolflake at Bear Lake in Noble County, Indiana. Merry Lea is the largest privately held land reserve in the state of Indiana. The center serves as a field laboratory for students at Goshen College who are studying ecology, environmental education and agroecology.
The main campground offers several waterfront campsites. The other campground is west of the lake and is designed for larger recreational vehicles. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has announced plans to drain the lake in the fall of 2008 in order to repair the dam and to eradicate gizzard shad which are detrimental to the fishery. [2]
Richard Lieber was instrumental in the foundation of the Indiana State Park system. 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 ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Indiana.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
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 ...
The community is in southern Fountain County, built around a reservoir named "Lake Holiday Hide-away" [3] built on Mill Creek. The town of Kingman is 2 miles (3 km) to the southeast, while Veedersburg is 10 miles (16 km) to the north.
All reservoirs in Indiana should be included in this category. The main article for this category is List of dams and reservoirs in Indiana; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Reservoirs in Indiana
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Big Lake CDP has an area of 0.87 square miles (2.25 km 2), of which 0.58 square miles (1.50 km 2) are land and 0.29 square miles (0.75 km 2), or 33.29%, are water. [1] Big Lake is fed and drained by the Tippecanoe River, a west-flowing tributary of the Wabash River. The lake is just downstream from ...