Indian Camp Creek

PARK HISTORY

Situated at the confluence of Big Creek and Indian Camp Creek in northwestern St. Charles County, Indian Camp Creek Park is the largest in the St. Charles County Parks Department’s system. At more than 600 acres, Indian Camp Creek Park furthers the department’s goal of preserving green space by featuring dedicated prairie land, vast wooded hills, limited infrastructure, and protected habitat for the deer, turkey, quail, and other wildlife. It also presents a look at the history of the region. Evidence shows that several American Indian communities settled the site in the Mississippian Period (A.D. 1000 to 1400). The Parks Department also plans to incorporate the homestead and family cemetery that dates to the early 1800s in the historical review.

Among the unique features are the nature-themed playground at the center of the park and several miles of multi-use, natural trail (presenting the county’s first parkland open to equestrian day-use). Future development will add group camping facilities with a central amphitheater designed to host jamborees, a restored silo tower that overlooks the park and the surrounding countryside, an interpretive site to honor the region’s history, and the Toth Nature Preserve. In addition to these distinctive features, the park also offers picnic shelters, a six-acre fishing pond, and other improvements designed to enhance the natural surrounding.