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Notice: Shabbona Lake State Park is pleased to announce that starting this fall the park will be replacing all our vault toilets. Work will begin in the day use area and move to the campground in November. For the safety of the public as well as the construction team the campground will be closed completely November 1 – April 30, while crews remove the old privies and replace them with new units. Reservations will still be available for the May 1st start of season. We apologize for the inconvenience but welcome the opportunity to improve our park with this much needed upgrade!
Just miles west of Chicago, off U.S. 30, urban landscape gives way to 1,550 acres of rolling prairie and a 318.8-acre man-made fishing lake. Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area provides a convenient, natural haven from the hustle and bustle of daily life.
Shabbona Lake SP Brochure.pdfA unique mix of grass-covered meadows, upland mesic woods, bottomland woods, and a native, undisturbed fen make this an ideal location for natural relaxation and outdoor activity. You can see sedges, cattails, marsh marigold, horsetails, skunk cabbage, turtlehead, iris, blue joint grass and bulrushes. Also enjoy areas of prairie restoration throughout the park featuring prairie grasses such as big blue stem and prairie flowers such as purple cone flower.
With facilities for picnicking, camping, hiking, fishing, hunting and winter sports, Shabbona Lake SRA is a convenient and comfortable retreat where visitors can refresh and reinvigorate in a rare, unspoiled environment.
In addition, Shabbona Lake contains a 15-acre seasonal nesting area for migratory waterfowl such as canvasback, redhead and pintail ducks and Canada geese.
Northwestern Illinois
4201 Shabbona Grove Rd.
Shabbona
60550
41.733
-88.865
