#1 · Sakatah Lake State Park
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Established in 1963, Sakatah Lake State Park offers you the opportunity to camp, hike and recreate by the lake, while still protecting forests, wetlands, prairies and the creatures that depend on them. Members of the Dakota Nation, the Wahpekute (Wapacoota) tribe gave this area the name Sakatah, meaning "the sights and sounds of children playing on the hill," or loosely translated to "Singing Hills." The rolling terrain is the work of glaciers that deposited mounds of rocks and mineral debris (called moraines) some 14,000 years ago. In some places these deposits are up to 400 feet deep.