Pokagon State Park

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Location:Near Angola, off I-69.
Facilities:200 campsites with electricity, 73 campsites with no electricity, campground showers and toilet facilities, group camp, youth tent areas; inn accommodations (Potawatomi Inn), including rooms and cabins, restaurant, cafe, swimming pool, meeting and conference rooms; picnic areas with shelters, playgrounds, play fields, toilet facilities; general store; hiking trails (11 miles), boat rentals (paddleboat, rowboat, and pontoon boats), swimming beach with bathhouse, recreation building rental, saddle barn, toboggan run, nature center, naturalist services.
Activities:Camping, swimming, fishing, boating, hiking, horseback riding, cross-country skiing, tobogganing, interpretive programs.
Special Features:Park has a quarter-mile toboggan run, a refrigerated twin track that offers speeds from 35-40 mph. The tobaggan run is open weekends from the Friday after Thanksgiving through February, depending on the weather (closed Christmas Eve and Christmas day).
Address:450 Ln 100 Lake James
Angola, IN 46703
Phone:260-833-2012
Web: www.in.gov/dnr/parklake/properties/park_pokagon.html
Size: 1,260 acres.

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However, as Fred Wooley, interpretive naturalist for Pokagon State Park in Indiana, explained, "The effect of hikers and birders is more passive," he said.

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Fort Wayne, IN, February 20, 2014 --(PR.com)-- E&B Paving, Inc.'s Fort Wayne office was recognized by the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) with “Quality in Construction” awards for its 2013 asphalt paving work on County Road 11A in DeKalb County and State Road 127 in Steuben County's Pokagon State Park.

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Located in Pokagon State Park in the northeast corner of the state, this inn offers a wide range of facilities for meetings large and small.

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The impressive stucco missionary-style resort sits within the 1,200-acre Pokagon State Park and is situated on the shore of Lake James.

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Pokagon State Park near Angola is full of wintertime excitement for the entire family Cabin lodging or regular hotel-style rooms are available through the winter months at the park.

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Pokagon State Park is located on the shores of Lake James and Snow Lake.

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To the northeast in Angola's Pokagon State Park (260/833-2012) is a popular toboggan run with two fully refrigerated quarter-mile toboggan tracks that allow speeds of 35-40 mph.

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Several state parks have facilities large enough to meet corporate needs, Among the most popular is Potawatomi Inn in Pokagon State Park. Located in northeast Indiana's Angola, the inn boats a nature center, boating, horseback riding and a toboggan run.

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Pokagon State Park--If toboggans are your preferred mode of downhill travel, visit Pokagon State Park, which has its own toboggan run with two fully refrigerated tracks.

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The 6,500-square-foot ballroom at Potawatomi Inn in Pokagon State Park in Angola, accommodating up to 650 people, is among the state's largest.

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She stays mum about specific companies using the facility, but says the Inn in Pokagon State Park in Steuben County frequently hosts meetings of economic-development folks and executives considering the northeast Indiana area for expansion.

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At Pokagon State Park in the northeast corner of the state, the big attraction is the toboggan run.

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