| Big Foot Beach State Park | |
| Wisconsin State Park | |
 The manicured grounds of Big Foot Beach State Park.
|
|
| Country |  United States |
|---|---|
| State |  Wisconsin |
| County | Walworth |
| Location | Lake Geneva |
| - coordinates | 42°34′8″N 88°25′36″W / 42.56889°N 88.42667°W |
| Area | 272 acres (110 ha) |
| Founded | 1949 |
| Management | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources |
| IUCN category | V - Protected Landscape/Seascape |
  |
|
Big Foot Beach State Park is a 272-acre (110 ha) Wisconsin state park on Geneva Lake. The park is used primarily for swimming, camping, and fishing.
The beach and park are named for Chief Big Foot (a translation from the Potawatomi Maumksuck (Mmangzed), also known in Frech as Gros Pied), an early Potawatomi leader in the area until forcibly relocated in 1836. Big Foot Lake was the original English name of Geneva Lake.[1]
References
- ^ "Big Foot High School FAQ." http://www.bigfoot.k12.wi.us/about/faq/faq.htm
External links
 |
This article about a location in the state of Wisconsin is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
