Big Foot Beach State Park is a

state park State parks are parks or other protected areas managed at the sub-national level within those nations which use "state" as a political subdivision. State parks are typically established by a state to preserve a location on account of its natural ...

Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...

, United States, on

Geneva Lake Geneva Lake ( Potawatomi: ''Kishwauketoe'' 'Clear Water') is a body of freshwater in Walworth County in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. On its shores are the city of Lake Geneva, and the villages of Fontana-on-Geneva- ...

. The park is used primarily for hiking, swimming, camping, and fishing. The beach and park are named for Big Foot (a translation from the

Potawatomi The Potawatomi , also spelled Pottawatomi and Pottawatomie (among many variations), are a Native American people of the western Great Lakes region, upper Mississippi River and Great Plains. They traditionally speak the Potawatomi language, a m ...

Maumksuck (''Mmangzed''), also known in French as ''Gros Pied''), an early

leader in the area until his band forcibly relocated by the United States in 1836. Big Foot Lake was the original English name of Geneva Lake.

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Big Foot Beach State Park
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources {{authority control State parks of Wisconsin Protected areas established in 1949 Protected areas of Walworth County, Wisconsin 1949 establishments in Wisconsin