Beed's Lake State Park
Beeds Lake State Park has everything one could wish for in a state park and then some. The 'then some' includes a causeway that crosses the lake from southeast to northwest and provides more than one-third mile of great shoreline fishing opportunity as well as a convenient pathway for hikers and joggers. Another focal point of the park which is important to visitors is the unusual 170 foot long spillway of multi-colored stones in horizontal layers that drop abruptly 40 feet to the rock foundation. Water cascading over the spillway is a beautiful sight. In 1857, William Beed put in the long causeway when he bought the property in 1864. The State of Iowa retained the area for development as a state park in 1934.
