Yellowstone Lake State Park
state park in Wisconsin, United States
Yellowstone Lake State Park is a state park in Lafayette County, Wisconsin, United States. The park sits on the shore of 453-acre (183 ha) Yellowstone Lake, a reservoir along the Yellowstone River. It is included in the 4,047-acre (1,638 ha) Yellowstone Wildlife Area.
The park has 128 campsites and 5 group sites. There is a swimming area with sand beach, picnic areas, playgrounds, and a boat launch. Fishing species include bluegill, largemouth bass, walleye, channel catfish, northern pike and muskellunge. The adjacent 4,000-acre wildlife area offers extensive horse trails and a shooting range.
The man-made lake is sustained by the Yellowstone River, a tributary of the Pecatonica River which enters on the northwest side, and the man-made dike built on the southeast side. The dam at the southern end of the dike is crossed by a narrow, steel catwalk, from which fishing is not allowed.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Yellowstone Lake State Park” as state park in Wisconsin, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as state park in Wisconsin, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8051991. The Library of Congress control number is sh2016002205. Authority coordinates are 42.763, -89.978. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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This entry incorporates text from “Yellowstone Lake State Park” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.