Spring Meadow Lake State Park is a public recreation area covering just west of

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. Once the site of a gravel pit and factory, the

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centers around a man-made, spring-fed lake, which is used for swimming, fishing, non-motorized boating, and scuba diving. The park also offers picnicking, a mile-long trail around the lake, and ice fishing and ice skating in winter.

Largemouth bass The largemouth bass (''Micropterus nigricans'') is a carnivorous, freshwater fish, freshwater, ray-finned fish in the Centrarchidae (sunfish) family, native to the eastern United States, eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada an ...

westslope cutthroat trout The Westslope cutthroat trout (''Oncorhynchus lewisi'')Page, Lawrence M.; Bemis, Katherine E.; Espinosa-Pérez, Héctor S.; Findley, Lloyd T.; Gilbert, Carter R.; Hartel, Karsten E.; Lea, Robert N.; Mandrak, Nicholas E.; Neighbors, Margaret A. ( ...

yellow perch The yellow perch (''Perca flavescens''), commonly referred to as perch, striped perch, American perch or preacher is a freshwater perciform fish native to much of North America. The yellow perch was described in 1814 by Samuel Latham Mitchill fr ...

, and

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are the main catches. A fishing pier was added to lake in 2011.

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External links

Spring Meadow Lake State Park
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks
Spring Meadow Lake State Park Trail Map
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks {{authority control Protected areas of Lewis and Clark County, Montana State parks of Montana Meadows in the United States