State offers 2 proposals to build inn at Potato Creek park

NORTH LIBERTY, Ind. (AP) - Gov. Mike Pence's proposal to build Indiana's first new inn at a state park in more than seven decades would bring lodging to one of the state's most popular and moneymaking parks.

The proposed $24 million project would bring lodging to Potato Creek State Park. The park ranked third as a moneymaker among Indiana's 24 state parks last year, following Brown County and Indiana Dunes state parks.

Naturalist Tim Cordell tells the South Bend Tribune (http://bit.ly/1z9Eqa2 ) that Potato Creek brought in 10 percent of the total revenue of all state parks last year.

The Bicentennial Inn would be the first new lodge at a state park since 1939 and the only one besides the Pokagon State Park inn near Angola to serve northern Indiana's large population base.

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Information from: South Bend Tribune, http://www.southbendtribune.com