Burke Lake Recreation Area
🏆🏆🏆 Missouri River Lake — Lakeside recreation area on Burke Lake — fishing, camping, and wide-open South Dakota skies
Burke Lake Recreation Area offers lakeside recreation on Burke Lake in Gregory County — in the rolling prairie of south-central South Dakota. The area provides fishing for walleye, northern pike, and bass in one of the state’s smaller but productive lakes. South Dakota’s wide-open grasslands stretch to the horizon in every direction, and the night skies here are among the darkest in the nation — with the Milky Way visible on clear nights from horizon to horizon.
Visitor Information
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Location | Gregory County, SD |
| Entry Fee | SD Park Entrance License required |
| Fishing | Walleye, northern pike, bass! |
| Skies | Among the darkest in the nation! |
About Burke Lake
Burke Lake Recreation Area in Gregory County provides camping and fishing along the Missouri River corridor in south-central South Dakota. The area sits on the banks of Lake Francis Case — a 102-mile-long Missouri River reservoir created by Fort Randall Dam. The Missouri River reservoirs transformed South Dakota’s economy and landscape in the 1950s and 1960s.
Things to Do
Fishing for walleye, northern pike, and smallmouth bass, camping, boating, swimming, and enjoying the Missouri River reservoir landscape.
About Burke Lake
Burke Lake Recreation Area in Gregory County provides lake recreation on a small Great Plains reservoir in south-central South Dakota. The park sits in the Missouri River trench country — where the Missouri carved a mile-wide valley through the Great Plains. Gregory County was part of the Rosebud Sioux Reservation until 1904, when the federal government opened it for white settlement in a controversial land rush.
Things to Do
Fishing for walleye and bass, camping, boating, swimming, and exploring the Missouri River country of south-central South Dakota.
