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.
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  • 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.

Nature reserve
Heidecke Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park on 1,300 acres in , , . It is an artificial cooling pond originally excavated to enable the operation of the now defunct Collins Generating Station.

Power station
Photo: ENERGY.GOV, Public domain.
is the first privately financed nuclear power plant built in the United States. Dresden 1 was activated in 1960 and retired in 1978.

The in , , , 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

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
way 671170466
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­nature_reserve
Wiki­data ID
Q5584088
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Highlights include Visitor Center - Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area and CPV Three Rivers Energy Center.

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