Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Devil's Lake State Park is a state park located in the Baraboo Range in eastern Sauk County, just south of Baraboo, Wisconsin. It is around thirty-five miles northwest of Madison , and is on the western edge of the last ice-sheet deposited during the Wisconsin glaciation . [ 2 ]
Devils Lake is a lake in the U.S. state of North Dakota.It is the largest natural body of water and the second-largest body of water in North Dakota after Lake Sakakawea.It can reach a level of 1,458 ft (444 m) before naturally flowing into the Sheyenne River via the Tolna Coulee.
Devil's Lake was so named because it is situated in a deep chasm that was thought to have no visible inlet or outlet. [3] However, the Koshawago Spring, originating from the Koshawago Creek, provides an inlet to the lake on the southwest side. [4] The term Devil's Lake is a misinterpretation of the Ho-Chunk name Te Wakącąk or Te Wakącągara. [5]
Devil's Doorway is a main attraction in Devil's Lake State Park in Wisconsin. [1] The park is 9,217 acres (3,730 ha) and Devil's Lake is 360 acres (150 ha). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The formation, more than 31 ft (9.4 m) high, is named for its resemblance to a doorway or a stone arch, with two separate columns of rock connected by other rocks at the top.
The community of Devils Lake is on the northern end of the lake and Manitou Beach is at the southwest end. Together, the communities are part of a census-designated place named Manitou Beach–Devils Lake that encompasses the entire lake and the smaller Round Lake to the southeast. The lake drains into Bean Creek on the southwest, just north of ...
Grahams Island State Park is a public recreation area in North Dakota occupying 959 acres (388 ha) on the eastern flank of Grahams Island in Devils Lake.At one time there were four recreational units on the lake, collectively known as Devils Lake State Parks, but rising water caused three units to be closed, leaving only Grahams Island State Park in operation.
The present site of Devils Lake was, historically, a territory of the Dakota people. However, the Sisseton, Wahpeton, and Cut-Head bands of the Dakotas were relocated to the Spirit Lake Reservation as a result of the 1867 treaty between the United States and the Dakota that established a reservation for those who had not been forcibly relocated to Crow Creek Reservation in what is now South ...
Devil's Lake State Park may refer to the following: Devils Lake State Parks (North Dakota), consisting of: Grahams Island State Park; Black Tiger Bay State Recreation Area; Devils Lake State Recreation Area in Oregon, formerly known as Devil's Lake State Park; Devil's Lake State Park (Wisconsin)