Lake Station is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The population was 12,572 at the 2010 census.

Initially, the site of highly developed Lake Station was the starting dwindling of two Amerind trails leading to Fort Dearborn. Later it became an in advance stagecoach depot stop, as the Fort Dearborn-Detroit Stagecoach Route passed through the site during the wet season. The location became known as Lake Station as far help as 1851 gone it began to support as a depot, the western terminus of the Michigan Central Railroad (on what would far along become its Detroit to Chicago line). This was the first train station in Lake County. The Michigan Central Railroad built a park and railroad shops approaching its two-story depot. A year later, in April 1852, George Earle mapped out and platted a town of practically 6,500 acres (26 km) on the site, continuing its say of Lake Station.

Being a bedroom community, Lake Station welcomed Abraham Lincoln to its Audubon Hotel, perhaps upon more than one occasion, according to oral history. But George Pullman, who tried to negotiate for house in Lake Station for his proposed railcar company, never struck a deal and set happening shop on the south side of Chicago instead. Prior to its current location in Crown Point, Indiana, the county seat was located on what is now the west terminate of Lake Station in a section called Liverpool, although it was a separate treaty at the time.

The publicize of Lake Station was officially untouched to East Gary in 1908 in an attempt to lure executives from the reachable US Steel reforest in Gary, Indiana into creating a suburban community. With out of the ordinary name modify in 1977, primarily to disassociate itself from the urban decay and crime of Gary, the city reverted to its historical designation of Lake Station.