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Lost Creek State Park is a
state park State parks are parks or other protected areas managed at the sub-national level within those nations which use "state" as a political subdivision. State parks are typically established by a state to preserve a location on account of its natural ...
in northeastern Morgan County,
Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
, United States, about northeast of city of Henefer and about northeast of the
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of
Croydon, Utah Croydon is an unincorporated community in northeastern Morgan County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Ogden– Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. Description Accessible from Interstate 84, it is home to Holcim's Dev ...
.


Description

The park is located at the
Lost Creek Reservoir Lost may refer to getting lost, or to: Geography *Lost, Aberdeenshire, a hamlet in Scotland *Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, or LOST, a hiking and cycling trail in Florida, US History *Abbreviation of lost work, any work which is known to have been ...
and is currently under development. It is anticipated to include "modern campgrounds, restrooms, entrance, and trailheads". , "all areas of this park remain in an extremely primitive state". However, there are vault toilets at several locations and a concrete
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on the south side of the Trail Creek/ Francis Canyon (southern) arm of the reservoir. One anticipated change to the area is that hunting will be limited to
waterfowl Anseriformes is an order of birds also known as waterfowl that comprises about 180 living species of birds in three families: Anhimidae (three species of screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which in ...
. Access to the park is by way of Utah State Route 158 (via Exit 111 on
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), then by either North 5800 East or North 6900 East, in or near Croydon. (The former street becomes Lost Creek Road and the north end of the later street is at Lost Creek Road.) Lost Creek Road is asphalt paved past the Lost Creek Dam.


History

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in March 2021 created the park (as well as the
Utahraptor State Park Utahraptor State Park is a state park in Grand County, Utah, United States, about northwest of Moab. Description The park is located east of U.S. Route 191 and west of Arches National Park, and covers . The park contains the Dalton Wells Quar ...
in Grand County). However, it appears that years prior to the establishment of the current park, there existed either a former Lost Creek State Park (at the same reservoir) or there were well developed plans for the same, since the Lost Creek State Park appeared on
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(USGS) maps as early as 1991. In addition, the USGS's
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included the park (with an alternate name of Lost Creek Lake State Beach) by not later than June 1, 2018.


See also

*
List of Utah State Parks Utah State Parks is the common name for the Division of Utah State Parks and Recreation; a division of the Utah Department of Natural Resources. This is the state agency that manages the state park system of the U.S. state of Utah. Utah' ...


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* State parks of Utah Protected areas of Grand County, Utah Protected areas established in 2021 Provincial and state parks in the Rocky Mountains {{Utah-protected-area-stub