Quail Creek State Park
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| Quail Creek State Park | |
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IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape) | |
 Upper end of Quail Creek Reservoir | |
  Location of Quail Creek State Park in Utah  Quail Creek State Park (the United States) | |
| Location | Washington, Utah, United States |
| Coordinates | 37°11′33″N 113°23′7″W / 37.19250°N 113.38528°W |
| Elevation | 3,300 ft (1,000 m)[1] |
| Established | 1986[1] |
| Visitors | 283,321 (in 2022)[2] |
| Operator | Utah State Parks |
| Website | Official website |
Quail Creek State Park is a state park of Utah, United States, featuring a 600-acre (240 ha) reservoir. The park is located within Hurricane, Utah, 9 miles (14 km) west of the city center and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of the historic ghost town of Harrisburg. Quail Creek State Park offers camping, boating, swimming, and fishing.[3]
The maximum depth of Quail Creek reaches up to 120 feet (37 m) and is cold enough to sustain the stocked rainbow trout, bullhead catfish, and crappie. Largemouth bass and bluegill, which are also stocked, thrive in the warmer, upper layers of the reservoir.
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]
Naming
The name came from the considerable population of quail that lived along its upper drainage in the 19th and early 20th century. They did not survive one particularly hard winter. The name of Anthony Quayle, who is sometimes acknowledge to be its namesake, is a different spelling and does not have any historical connection to this particular drainage.
