In addition to a mile-long beach, the park contains a white cedar swamp surrounding a 26-acre (11 ha) lake that used to be a stone quarry.

The park provides campgrounds, hiking trails, picnic, and bird watch areas.

Most of the workers were immigrants from Luxembourg, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Italy.

When the quarry closed, some of the residential buildings were moved to the Village of Belgium.

[2][3] In 1968, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources began buying the properties that would become Harrington Beach State Park.