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The lake is located about fifty miles (80 km) from the state capital of Bismarck; the distance by the Missouri River is about 75 miles (120 km). The lake's width averages between 2–3 miles (3–5 km), with a maximum of 14 miles (23 km) at Van Hook Arm. Lake Sakakawea marks the maximum southwest extent of glaciation during the ice age.
The park is named for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the leaders of the Corps of Discovery, which camped near here on April 17, 1805. [3] The North Dakota state parks department added three park units on Lake Sakakawea after the state legislature authorized the leasing of land from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1971.
Lake Sakakawea State Park is a public recreation area occupying 739 acres (299 ha) on the southern shore of Lake Sakakawea in Mercer County, North Dakota. The state park is located adjacent to the Garrison Dam , one mile (1.6 km) north of Pick City .
Fort Stevenson State Park is a public recreation area located on a peninsula on Lake Sakakawea four miles (6.4 km) south of the community of Garrison in McLean County, North Dakota. [3] The state park 's 586 acres (237 ha) include a partial reconstruction of Fort Stevenson , the 19th-century Missouri River fort from which the park takes its name.
Williston is located at the crossroads of U.S. Highways 2 and 85, near the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers, at the upper end of the Lake Sakakawea reservoir. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has an area of 25.875 square miles (67.02 km 2 ), of which 25.734 square miles (66.65 km 2 ) is land and 0.141 ...
10 Lake Okeechobee: Florida: 662 sq mi 1,715 km 2: natural [6] 11 Lake Pontchartrain: Louisiana: 631 sq mi 1,634 km 2: natural brackish [7] 12 Lake Sakakawea: North Dakota: 520 sq mi 1,347 km 2: man-made 13 Lake Champlain: New York–Vermont–Quebec: 490 sq mi 1,269 km 2: natural 14 Becharof Lake: Alaska: 453 sq mi 1,173 km 2: natural 15 Lake ...
Garrison Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Missouri River in central North Dakota, U.S. Constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1947 to 1953, at over two miles (3.2 km) in length, the dam is the fifth-largest earthen dam in the world. [4]
Little Missouri State Park is a public recreation area of over 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) located on the western side of the Little Missouri River, near the river's confluence with Lake Sakakawea, ten miles (16 km) north of Killdeer, North Dakota. Much of the state park consists of badlands terrain that is only accessible by trail.