Important Bird Area.
This seasonal county park provides pleasant general birding. The north part of the park, accessed by rock roads heading north on the east side of the lake, may have shorebirds in season.

Along the north side of Lake Red Rock in northern Marion Co. Follow G-28 a little more than three miles east from Hwy. 14, over the causeway to the park's entrance to the north. The park extends to both sides of the lake. Primarily woodlands.

The entire area is important as a resting area for large concentrations of migrating waterfowl, gulls, and shorebirds. The area is also critical as a wintering area for large numbers of Bald Eagles. Nesting birds include Bobolink, Cerulean Warbler, Black-billed Cuckoo, Wood Thrush, and in some years Kentucky Warbler.

The Red Rock Dam is about five miles southwest of Pella; the refuge area extends northwest beyond Runnells in Polk County to near Hartford in Warren County.