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Cottonwood Recreation Area is a public recreation area located in Cedar County, Nebraska, U.S. It is located about 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Yankton and located on the shores of Lake Yankton . The recreation area is located immediately downstream of Gavins Point Dam and Lewis and Clark Lake .
"The campground sits on a scenic lake and is connected to a larger park with walking and biking trails, a large dog park, playgrounds, boat ramps, and more,” Pate said. Tory John Waterloo, Iowa
The park features an open-air museum at Prophetstown, with living history exhibits including a Shawnee village and a 1920s-era farmstead. Battle Ground , Indiana , is a village about a mile east of the site of the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, a crucial battle in Tecumseh's War which ultimately led to the demise of Prophetstown.
Lake Yankton, also called Cottonwood Lake, is an artificial lake that was originally part of the main channel of the Missouri River on the border of the U.S. States of Nebraska and South Dakota, near Yankton, South Dakota. The lake has an approximate surface area of 250 acres (100 ha) and has a maximum depth of 18 feet (5.5 m).
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]
The 133-acre (54 ha) lake, Yellowwood Lake, is thirty feet (9.1 m) deep and was created in 1939. Hunting typically involves deer, fox, grouse, raccoon, squirrel, turkey, and woodcock. [5] [6] Many of the unpaved roads within the forest are dusty and narrow, and those driving cars within the forest will often have to ford creeks. [7]