Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area | |
---|---|
Map of the U.S. state of Illinois showing the location of Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area | |
Location | DeKalb County, Illinois, U.S. |
Nearest city | Shabbona, Illinois |
Coordinates | 41°44′22″N 88°51′08″W / 41.73944°N 88.85222°W[1] |
Area | 1,550 acres (630 ha) |
Established | 1978 |
Governing body | Illinois Department of Natural Resources |
Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area is an Illinois state park on 1,550 acres (630 ha) in Shabbona Township, DeKalb County, Illinois, United States. Shabbona Lake is a man-made lake created in 1975 by damming the (Big) Indian Creek, a tributary of the Fox River. Its name derives from the Potawatomi leader Shabbona.[2]
Seventy miles west of Chicago, off U.S. 30, urban landscape gives way to 1,550 acres (630 ha) of rolling prairie and a 318.8 acres (129.0 ha) man-made fishing lake.[3]