Silver Lake is a spectacular natural glacial lake spanning 1,041 acres bordering the town of Lake Park in northwestern Iowa. Part of Iowa's Great Lakes Chain, Silver Lake offers a scenic location for an array of outdoor recreational activities such as boating, camping, fishing, and nature watching. Silver Lake provides excellent fishing for walleye, along with bullhead, crappie, northern pike, and yellow perch, as well as recreational boating, power boating, canoeing, kayaking, sailing, and swimming. The two adjacent parks have three hard surface boat ramps, fishing docks and jetties, campgrounds, restrooms, and trails for hiking, mountain biking, and nature watching.