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Lake Kegonsa 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 ...
of
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 the northeast shore of Lake Kegonsa. It is located in
Dane County Dane County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 561,504, making it the second-most populous county in Wisconsin. The county seat is Madison, which is also the state capital. Dane County is the ...
southeast of
Madison, Wisconsin Madison is the county seat of Dane County and the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census the population was 269,840, making it the second-largest city in Wisconsin by population, after Milwaukee, and the 80th-lar ...
. The park consists of forest, prairie, and wetlands. Known for its campground, beach, and approximately of hiking trails, the park offers swimming, fishing, water-skiing, sailing, and a boat landing. Lake Kegonsa itself covers and is more than deep. It was created by a glacier during the last ice age approximately 12,000 years ago.


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Lake Mendota Lake Mendota is a freshwater eutrophic lake that is the northernmost and largest of the four lakes in Madison, Wisconsin. The lake borders Madison on the north, east, and south, Middleton on the west, Shorewood Hills on the southwest, Maple Blu ...
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Lake Monona Lake Monona is a freshwater drainage lake in Dane County, Wisconsin, surrounded on three sides by the city of Madison, Wisconsin, and on the south east side by the city of Monona, Wisconsin. It is the second-largest of a chain of four lakes along ...
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Lake Waubesa Lake Waubesa is one of the four major lakes in Dane County, Wisconsin, Dane County, Wisconsin that surround the city of Madison, Wisconsin, Madison. The lake has a surface area of and a max depth of . In 2013, the List of Wisconsin fishing record ...


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Lake Kegonsa State Park
{{authority control Kegonsa Protected areas established in 1962 Protected areas of Dane County, Wisconsin State parks of Wisconsin 1962 establishments in Wisconsin