Annual Herman Iron Pour Niemackl Lake Park Information Click on any small photo on the site to see a larger version. The pouring area is the gravel parking lot of the 260 acre Park. The picnic shelter in the central area of the Park serves as a workshop space for making molds in the days prior to Sunday's pour.
Many artists stay at the campground at the Park.
Facilities include primitive tent sites, water, electricity, and outhouses. The central area of the Park also includes the caretakers' residence, playground equipment, and a large granary with an attached stage. The central wooded peninsula at Niemackl Lake Park has been a gathering place for people for over 11,000 years. It has come full cycle and is once more a gathering place for people seeking the quiet shelter of the wooded area the Dakota Indians called Moose Island. For the Dakota Indians, who had the land to themselves before the 1860s, the island provided shelter, firewood, and food.