Stone Lake is in Stone Lake State Park, a

California State Park The California Department of Parks and Recreation, more commonly known as California State Parks, manages the California state parks system. The system administers 279 separate park units on 1.4 million acres (570,000 hectares), with over 280 ...

, located in

Sacramento County, California Sacramento County () is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,585,055. Its county seat is Sacramento, which has been the state capital of California since 1854. Sacramento County is the ...

. The open space property protects two rare natural Central Valley lakes and their surrounding

riparian A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream. Riparian is also the proper nomenclature for one of the terrestrial biomes of the Earth. Plant habitats and communities along the river margins and banks ar ...

habitat and grassland areas. The County of Sacramento operates Stone Lake.

External links

Official Stone Lake State Park site
State parks of California Lakes of Sacramento County, California Lakes of California Parks in the San Joaquin Valley Parks in Sacramento County, California {{SacramentoCountyCA-geo-stub