Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area
Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area is a 2,537-acre state park in Illinois. More than half of the state park is a tallgrass prairie maintained as an Illinois Nature Preserve.- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: State park in Illinois, USA
- Also known as: “Goose Lake Prairie State Park”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Heidecke State Fish and Wildlife Area and Dresden Generating Station.
Heidecke State Fish and Wildlife Area
Nature reserve
Heidecke Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park on 1,300 acres in Grundy County, Illinois, United States. It is an artificial cooling pond originally excavated to enable the operation of the now defunct Collins Generating Station.
Dresden Generating Station
Power station
Photo: ENERGY.GOV, Public domain.Morris Operation
The Morris Operation in Grundy County, Illinois, United States, is the location of the only permanent de facto high-level radioactive waste storage site in the United States and holds 772 tons of spent nuclear fuel.Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area
- Categories: protected area and recreation area
- Location: Grundy, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.3656° or 41° 21′ 56″ north
Longitude
-88.3063° or 88° 18′ 23″ west
Elevation
518 feet (158 metres)
Open location code
86HH9M8V+6F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
Wikidata ID
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