Big Stone Lake is a long lake separating South Dakota and Minnesota. It’s about 26 miles long and a half-mile wide, and Hartford Beach State Park is right in the middle. Need a break?

BIG STONE LAKE, S.D. - Big Stone Lake in northeast South Dakota is dropping, after more than a week of threatening homes, businesses and farms. But many lakeside homes remain surrounded by high ...

ORTONVILLE — The Big Stone County Sheriff’s Office reported the death of a man whose pickup fell through the ice on Big Stone Lake near Lagoona ... of Big Stone City, South Dakota, by the ...

Others have made their way upstream in the Whetstone River in Milbank, South Dakota. What also is evident is that lake sturgeon in Big Stone Lake have grown relatively fast when compared to other ...

ORTONVILLE — The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department has confirmed the presence of zebra mussels in Big Stone Lake, a long, narrow lake that extends 26 miles through Big Stone County in ...

The James River that flows through eastern South Dakota and into the Missouri River. Roy Lake in Marshall County. The Big Sioux River downstream from Lake Kampeska in Codington County. Big Stone ...

Big Stone Lake – one of roughly three dozen lakes in the county – serves as the boundary between the county and South Dakota to its west. Ortonville was established as the county seat in 1874.