NOTICE – Stage 1 Fire Restrictions:
No open fires of any kind except within established facilities in improved campgrounds or day-use areas on public lands. -OR- in permanently constructed fire pits at permanent private dwellings served by pressurized running water.
Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle, trailer or building, a developed recreation site or while stopped in an area that is paved or free from dry vegetation.
Cutting, welding or grinding metal in areas of dry vegetation.
Operating a motorcycle, chainsaw, ATV, or other small internal combustion engine without an approved and working spark arrestor.
Discharging or using any fireworks, tracer ammunition, or other pyrotechnic devices, including exploding targets.
Click here to our fire restrictions webpage for more information.
NOTICE: Water levels are low. Survey the reservoir to identify possible hazards before increasing speed. Boat at your own risk.
NOTICE: Quail Creek State Park will begin enforcing a day-use fee at the DWR Field Office/South Overlook parking lot beginning May 1, 2023. Click here for more information.
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Welcome to Quail Creek State Park!
Boasting some of the warmest waters in the state and a mild winter climate, Quail Creek lures boaters and anglers year-round. Camp. Hike. Explore.
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 earth-fill embankment dam. The south dam is a roller-compacted concrete dam, constructed to replace the original earth-fill dam that failed in the early hours of New Year’s Day 1989.
The maximum depth of Quail Creek can reach 120 feet, so it is cold enough to sustain the stocked rainbow trout, bullhead catfish, and crappie. Largemouth bass, which is also stocked, and bluegill thrive in the warmer, upper layers of the reservoir.
Opened to the public as a state park in 1986.
Park Elevation: 3,300 feet
Surface Water Acreage: 600
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