Kettle Moraine State Forest - Pike Lake Unit Camping
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Overview
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The Pike Lake Unit of the Kettle Moraine State Forest is a 825-acre (334 ha) unit of the Wisconsin state park system. The unit is located just east of Hartford, Wisconsin on State Highway 60, on the east shore of the 446-acre (180 ha) Pike Lake. It was dedicated by Wisconsin governor Patrick J. Lucey in June 1971.
The park provides a campground, a beach, an observation tower, hiking and biking trails and a naturalist program. A section of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail runs through the park as it follows the Kettle Moraine.
Pike Lake was formed by a melting ice block. At the edge of this tongue of the glacier, sediment was carried upward to the top of the ice sheet. When the ice block melted, an immense hallow or Kettle was left, which filled with water creating Pike Lake.
Powder Hill is a glacial feature called a kame. Meltwater rivers washed through the retreating glacial lobes cutting cracks in the ice and washing mounds of till into the breech. The mound of stream-packed till emerged as the surrounding ice sheets melted and the material around it sank.
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Other nearby parks
Open to camping at other nearby parks? Here are a few other parks you'll find in the vicinity.
- Kettle Moraine State Forest - Lapham Peak Unit
- Kettle Moraine State Forest - Northern Unit
- Wisconsin State Fair Rv Park
- Harrington Beach State Park
- South Shore Park
- Kettle Moraine State Forest - Southern Unit
- Aztalan State Park
- Kohler-Andrae State Park
- Glacial Drumlin State Trail
- Richard Bong State Recreation Area
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