Beaver Lake State Park (North Dakota) should not be confused with Beaver Lake State Park (Arkansas).
Beaver Lake State Park | |
Photo Width: | 280 |
Photo Alt: | Lake |
Map: | North Dakota |
Map Width: | 280 |
Relief: | 1 |
Label: | Beaver Lake State Park |
Location: | Logan County, North Dakota, United States |
Nearest City: | Wishek, North Dakota |
Coords: | 46.4028°N -99.6197°W |
Area: | 273.16acres |
Elevation: | 1962feet |
Established: | 1932 |
Free Label: | Named for |
Designation: | North Dakota state park |
Administrator: | North Dakota Parks and Recreation Department |
Visitation Num: | average 18,497 |
Visitation Year: | 2009-2011 |
Beaver Lake State Park is a public recreation area located in Logan County, North Dakota, about equidistant from Napoleon and Wishek. The state park occupies of land on the western shore of 968acres Beaver Lake and offers hiking, boating, swimming, fishing, cabins, and campground.
The park began through the encouragement of local residents who met in 1929 at Shepard’s Pavilion, which is located just south of the eventual park boundary, to promote creation of a state park honoring the early settlers who lived on the shores of Beaver Lake. Dedication ceremonies took place in July 1932. In 1933, the lake's water level was raised with the damming of Beaver Creek. Laborers with the Works Progress Administration worked in the park in 1935 and 1936, creating roads, paths, an earthen dock, and picnic area. Their work is memorialized with a stone monument in the park.