Pikes Point State Park, Waterfront state park in Dickinson County, US.
Pikes Point State Park is a small park on a point of land projecting into West Okoboji Lake southwest of Spirit Lake, Iowa. It has a picnic shelter at the base of a slope, a playground, a swimming beach, and access for boating and fishing. The shelter, built by CCC Company 778 by March 17, 1934, has random rubble stone walls, a fireplace flanked by stone benches, and four round timber posts supporting a shed roof with a 7-foot rear overhang.
Pikes Point was dedicated as a state park in 1931. Civilian Conservation Corps Company 778 built the shelter, stone steps, trails and plantings there by March 17, 1934. In 1936 the park was placed under the jurisdiction of Gull Point State Park.
The picnic shelter was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its Rustic style architecture. CCC Company 778 built it, along with the steps, trails and plantings, by March 17, 1934. Its random rubble stone walls, timber posts and two fireplaces were designed to fit the slope above West Okoboji Lake.
The park sits on a point projecting into West Okoboji Lake southwest of Spirit Lake. A set of 29 stone steps climbs the 25-foot hill south of the picnic shelter, so expect a short climb between the lakefront and the upper ground. The shelter stands at the base of the slope, with its patio continuing to the hillside.
The shelter's rear roof extends as a 7-foot overhang sheltering a second fireplace, and the patio behind it ends at a curved stone bench set into the hillside. South of the shelter, 29 stone steps climb a 25-foot slope. CCC Company 778 built these features by March 17, 1934.
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