Wakonda State Park is a public recreation area covering 1,054 acres (427 ha) near La Grange in Lewis County, Missouri.

[3] The park occupies one of the few remaining sand prairie areas found along the central and northern Mississippi River.

During the last Ice Age, the glacial movement left large deposits of high-quality gravel and sand.

Beginning in 1924, the Missouri Highway Commission contracted with private companies to remove gravel deposits for use in road surfacing.

The depth of the gravel required open-pit mining techniques which eventually led to the creation of the six lakes that dot the park's landscape.