Granite Basin Lake is a

reservoir A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including contro ...

located near Prescott, in Yavapai County,

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. It is in the

Prescott National Forest The Prescott National Forest is a 1.25 million-acre (510,000 ha) United States National Forest located in north central Arizona in the vicinity of Prescott. The forest is located in the mountains southwest of Flagstaff and north of Phoenix in ...

, adjacent to the Granite Mountain Wilderness Area.

History

Construction began on the dam in 1937 by the

Civilian Conservation Corps The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. The CCC was a major part of ...

, and was completed in 1939. '' The Raft'', a segment of the movie ''

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'', was filmed at the lake.

Fish species

Largemouth Bass The largemouth bass (''Micropterus salmoides'') is a carnivorous freshwater gamefish in the Centrarchidae ( sunfish) family, a species of black bass native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico, but ...

* Sunfish *

Channel Catfish The channel catfish (''Ictalurus punctatus'') is North America's most numerous catfish species. It is the official fish of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Tennessee, and is informally referred to as a "channel cat". In the United States, the ...

References

External links

{{commons category, Granite Basin Lake
Arizona Boating Locations Facilities MapArizona Fishing Locations MapRecreational Activities in the Prescott National ForestVideo of Granite Basin Lake
Reservoirs in Yavapai County, Arizona Prescott National Forest Dams in Arizona Dams completed in 1939