Quail Creek State Park

Quail Creek State Park
Utah State Park
Upper end of Quail Creek Reservoir
Country	United States
State	Utah
County	Washington

Location	Hurricane
- elevation	3,300 ft (1,006 m) ^[1]
- coordinates	37°11′33″N 113°23′7″W / 37.19250°N 113.38528°W / 37.19250; -113.38528Coordinates: 37°11′33″N 113°23′7″W / 37.19250°N 113.38528°W / 37.19250; -113.38528

Founded	1986 ^[1]
Management	Utah State Parks

Visitation	72,366 (2011) ^[2]

IUCN category	V - Protected Landscape/Seascape

Location of Quail Creek State Park in Utah

Quail Creek State Park is a state park of Utah, United States, featuring a 600-acre (240 ha) reservoir. The park is located 9 miles (14 km) west of Hurricane and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Harrisburg. Quail Creek State Park offers camping, boating, swimming, and fishing.

The maximum depth of Quail Creek can reach 120 feet (37 m), it is cold enough to sustain the stocked rainbow trout, bullhead catfish, and crappie. Largemouth bass, which are also stocked, and bluegill thrive in the warmer, upper layers of the reservoir.

History

Quail Creek reservoir was completed in 1985 to provide irrigation and culinary water to the St. George area. Most of the water in the reservoir does not come from Quail Creek, but is diverted from the Virgin River and transported through a buried pipeline.

Two dams form the reservoir. The main dam is an earthfill embankment dam. The south dam is a roller-compacted concrete dam, constructed to replace the original earthfill dam that failed in the early hours of New Year's Day 1989.^[1]

References

This article incorporates public domain material from the website of the Division of Utah State Parks and Recreation.

1 2 3 "Quail Creek State Park: About the Park". Utah State Parks. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
↑ "Utah State Park 2011 Visitation" (PDF). Utah State Parks Planning. Retrieved 28 May 2012.

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Quail Creek State Park

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