Stockton State Park

Stockton State Park
Missouri State Park
Country	United States
State	Missouri
County	Cedar

Elevation	948 ft (289 m) ^[1]
Coordinates	37°36′38″N 93°44′56″W / 37.61056°N 93.74889°W / 37.61056; -93.74889Coordinates: 37°36′38″N 93°44′56″W / 37.61056°N 93.74889°W / 37.61056; -93.74889 ^[1]

Area	2,176 acres (881 ha)

Established	1969
Management	Missouri Department of Natural Resources

Location in Missouri
Website: Stockton State Park

Stockton State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Missouri consisting of 2,175.90 acres (880.56 ha) located approximately 9 miles (14 km) south of the city of Stockton. The park occupies a northward jutting peninsula between the Big and Little Sac arms of Stockton Lake, a 24,900-acre (10,100 ha) reservoir created when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Sac River in 1969. The park's water-based recreation includes fishing, swimming, skiing, scuba diving, and sailing.^[2]

Activities and amenities

The park offers a marina with two boat ramps and more than 300 stalls, some assigned exclusively to sailboats, a swimming beach, picnic areas, campgrounds, and camper cabins.

References

1 2 "Stockton State Park". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
↑ "Stockton State Park". Missouri State Parks. Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved September 8, 2014.

External links

Stockton State Park Missouri Department of Natural Resources

Protected areas of Missouri

Federal

National Monuments:	George Washington Carver

National Historic Sites:	Harry S Truman Ulysses S. Grant

National Battlefields:	Wilson's Creek

National Memorials:	Jefferson National Expansion Memorial

National Wildlife Refuges:	Big Muddy Clarence Cannon Great River Middle Mississippi River Mingo Ozark Cavefish Pilot Knob Squaw Creek Swan Lake Two Rivers

National Forests:	Mark Twain

Wilderness Areas:	Bell Mountain Devils Backbone Hercules Glades Irish Mingo Paddy Creek Piney Creek Rockpile Mountain

Other Protected Areas:	Ozark National Scenic Riverways

State

State Parks:	Babler Sam A. Baker Bennett Spring Big Lake Big Oak Tree Big Sugar Creek Castlewood Crowder Cuivre River Current River Don Robinson Echo Bluff Elephant Rocks Finger Lakes Graham Cave Grand Gulf Ha Ha Tonka Harry S Truman Hawn Johnson's Shut-Ins Jones-Confluence Point Katy Trail Knob Noster Lake of the Ozarks Lake Wappapello Lewis and Clark Long Branch Mark Twain Meramec Montauk Morris Onondaga Cave Pershing Pomme de Terre Prairie Roaring River Robertville Rock Bridge Memorial Roger Pryor Pioneer Backcountry Route 66 St. Francois St. Joe Stockton Table Rock Taum Sauk Mountain Thousand Hills Trail of Tears Van Meter Wakonda Wallace Washington Watkins Woolen Mill Weston Bend

State Historic Sites:	Arrow Rock Battle of Athens Battle of Carthage Battle of Island Mound Battle of Lexington Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio Bollinger Mill Nathan Boone Homestead Boone's Lick Bothwell Lodge Clark's Hill/Norton Confederate Memorial Deutschheim Dillard Mill Gov. Daniel Dunklin's Grave Felix Vallé House First Missouri State Capitol Fort Davidson Gen. John J. Pershing Boyhood Home Harry S Truman Birthplace Hunter-Dawson Iliniwek Village Jefferson Landing Jewell Cemetery Locust Creek Covered Bridge Mark Twain Birthplace Mastodon Missouri Mines Missouri State Capitol Missouri State Museum Osage Village Sandy Creek Covered Bridge Sappington Cemetery Scott Joplin House Towosahgy Union Covered Bridge Watkins Woolen Mill

Conservation areas:	List of Missouri conservation areas

State Forests:	List of Missouri state forests

Missouri Department of Natural Resources

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