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Dedicated 6 June 1977 · state park 1983 · boundary article
Potato Creek State Park is not in North Liberty; it is in Liberty Township, about three miles east of the town, and it is printed at that frame on purpose.Its facts, from the Department of Natural Resources' and the park's own record: 3,840 acres at 25601 State Road 4, around the 327-acre Worster Lake made by damming Potato Creek in 1977; natural habitats of old fields, mature woodlands, restored prairies, and wetlands on ground that had been farmland; and a creation story in two dates that print whole — the land was set aside from 1969 in one telling of the park's history, while Governor Otis R. Bowen dedicated six square miles as the Potato Creek Recreation Area on 6 June 1977, and the area was upgraded to a state park in 1983. The mover was Darcy Worster, a self-taught naturalist who from the 1930s re-created natural areas on the creek and lobbied the state for the dam and reservoir, sending legislators hand-crafted insects to press his case; the lake bears his name, and he did not live to see it finished. The park's present course includes a lodge on Worster Lake's southern shore, carried in current carriers as a 120-room project planned or under construction in 2025–26 — printed dated, at carrier strength — the first new ground-up lodge in Indiana's state parks since 1939 on those carriers' telling.