Devil's Lake State Park, State park with lake and cliffs in Sauk County, United States.
Devil's Lake State Park encompasses 9,200 acres of natural terrain featuring steep quartzite cliffs surrounding a 360-acre lake with forested areas and hiking trails.
The Wisconsin State Park System established Devil's Lake as a public recreation area in 1911, leading to its registration in the National Register of Historic Places.
The land holds ancestral significance to the Ho-Chunk Nation, who named it Tee Wakącąk, and contains numerous preserved Native American effigy mounds throughout the park.
The park provides year-round recreational activities including swimming, rock climbing, hiking, fishing in summer and cross-country skiing, snowboarding, and sledding in winter.
The park's geological formations date back 1.6 billion years, with purple quartzite cliffs rising 500 feet above the lake, forming part of the Baraboo Range.
Location: Sauk County
Inception: 1911
Website: https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/parks/devilslake
GPS coordinates: 43.41470,-89.71310
Latest update: May 26, 2025 20:56
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