Lake Loramie State Park

Lake Loramie State Park occupies four hundred seven acres along the shore of Lake Loramie near Fort Loramie in western Ohio. The lake’s name preserves the memory of Pierre-Louis de Lorimier, known in English as Peter Loramie, who established a trading post at the mouth of Loramie Creek in seventeen sixty-nine. The lake itself was created in eighteen forty-four and eighteen forty-five as a storage reservoir for the Miami-Erie Canal system, which supported Ohio transportation and commerce before railroads predominated. In nineteen forty-nine it passed to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for recreation, and today the area is used for fishing, boating, camping, and cabin stays.

Ohio · United States