Spring Mill State Park

Spring Mill State Park

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Location: 3 miles east of Mitchell at 3333 State Road 60 East.
Facilities: 187 campsites with electricity, restrooms, showers, 36 primitive campsites, youth tent camping areas, camp store, inn accommodations (Spring Mill Inn), restaurant (open to all park visitors), meeting and conference facilities, picnic areas with shelters, hiking trails, swimming pool, historic sites, nature center, naturalist services.
Activities: Camping, swimming, volleyball and other games, fishing, ice fishing, boating (electric motors only), hiking, cave exploration, boat rides into Twin Caves, interpretive programs.
Special Features: A memorial to Virgil I "Gus" Grissom is adjacent to the park gate, with a museum that houses the Gemini space capsule and space suit along with other items related to both Grissom's life and NASA. Other special features of the park include a restored Pioneer Village with a water-powered grist mill; and a cave ecosystem with northern blind cave fish, an endangered species.
Address: Box 376
Mitchell, IN 47446
Phone: 812-849-4129;
Web: www.in.gov/dnr/parklake/properties/park_springmill.html
Size: 1,319 acres.

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