Indiana Beach (5224 E. Indiana Beach Rd., 574-583-4141) is the main draw, of course. Founded in 1926, the park hosts several respectable coasters, including the wooden Cornball Express (save your ...

Earl Spackman, an accountant for the Ideal Furnace Company, saw the potential for Lake Shafer to be an ideal vacation spot, so Ideal Beach it was. The park opened in 1926 with a small bathhouse, a ...

MONTICELLO — Lake Shafer seems as though it’s always existed when in fact it was made. Along with Freeman Lake, it was created in 1923 by the backwater of the hydroelectric Norway dam on the ...

Indiana may not be known for its beaches but one of its most popular amusement parks, Indiana Beach, sits on the shores of Lake Shafer, created in 1923 along with Freeman Lake by the backwater of ...

A craft beer, wine and spirits festival is being held in Indiana this year within the Indiana Beach amusement park located on Lake Shafer in Monticello. The Indiana Beach Boardwalk Resort in ...

Indiana Beach, seen in 2016, was originally called Ideal Beach. It began as a Lake Shafer swimming beach with a bathhouse and refreshment stand.