Kansas Lakes: 10 Vacation Lakes in Kansas

Featured Kansas Lake

Lake Name	Lake Summary
Hillsdale Lake	Also known as: Hillsdale Reservoir The boat glides slowly over the tops of the submerged trees. Carefully he stalks them, intent as any predator. It's early summer on Hillsdale Lake, and he's come for the largemouth bass. Overhead the bald eagle soars with a fish in its talons. If he's lucky, his turn is next. If not, there's still the water skiing, swimming, and boating on Hillsdale Lake's 4, 575 acres in northeast Kansas. Either way it will be a good day. The US Army Corps of Engineers created Hillsdale Reservoir for flood control and as a water supply reservoir. The project was authorized in 1954, but construction on the dam on Big Bull Creek was not started until 1976. The dam is slightly over 18 miles upstream from the confluence of the Marais des Cygnes River. Hillsdale Lake was impounded in 1981. It didn't reach full pool, however, until 1985. The lake's 51 mile shoreline is public land which the US Army Corps of Engineers leased to the Kansas Division of Wildlife and Parks. The Corps still maintai ... (read more about Hillsdale Lake, Kansas)

Lake Name

Lake Summary

Hillsdale Lake

Also known as: Hillsdale Reservoir
The boat glides slowly over the tops of the submerged trees. Carefully he stalks them, intent as any predator. It's early summer on Hillsdale Lake, and he's come for the largemouth bass. Overhead the bald eagle soars with a fish in its talons. If he's lucky, his turn is next. If not, there's still the water skiing, swimming, and boating on Hillsdale Lake's 4, 575 acres in northeast Kansas. Either way it will be a good day. The US Army Corps of Engineers created Hillsdale Reservoir for flood control and as a water supply reservoir. The project was authorized in 1954, but construction on the dam on Big Bull Creek was not started until 1976. The dam is slightly over 18 miles upstream from the confluence of the Marais des Cygnes River. Hillsdale Lake was impounded in 1981. It didn't reach full pool, however, until 1985. The lake's 51 mile shoreline is public land which the US Army Corps of Engineers leased to the Kansas Division of Wildlife and Parks. The Corps still maintai ... (read more about Hillsdale Lake, Kansas)