Chain O'Lakes State Park (Indiana)

The Chain O'Lakes State Park are connected by water passages in a shaped by ice age glaciers landscape 8 of 11 lakes. The 881 -acre State Park is located in Noble County of the U.S. state of Indiana.

In the Pleistocene 14,000 years ago was on the field yet a thick glacier shield. In State Park, the traces of a glacier run can be seen, the melting water flooding a glacial trough have created the tunnel Valley. After wane which rubble, debris and Toteisblöcke were deposited, from which originated the present lakes. Watercourses connect eight of the 11 lakes created and can be navigated by canoe.

Before settling white pioneers, already a tribe of Miami Indians was 30 wigwams on the north bank of the later Bowen Lake resident. William Bowen was in the 1830s one of the first white settlers. In 1960 opened State Park there are picnic areas, hiking trails, boat rentals, camping facilities and a visitor center built in the 1915 Stanley Schoolhouse. In the year 2009 260.000 visitors could be counted.

Owls, hawks, woodpeckers and different songbirds nest regularly in a state park. Specifically include lemon Warbler, Andes Treecreeper, Garden tyrant, tits Warbler, Henslow - bunting, or long-eared owl and buzzard wings wide to the more common birds visible. Crowned night herons, barn owl, yellow-headed Schwarzstärling and evening grosbeak are observed less frequently.