Minersville, Puffer and Kents Lake, and which one you can reach.

Minersville Reservoir, about 12 miles west of town on State Route 21. It is a Utah state park with year round fishing, boating and camping, and it sits on a different watershed entirely from Beaver Canyon, so it was unaffected by the July 2026 fire and flood.

Not by road, as of this writing. Both sit up State Route 153 east of Beaver, the same highway closed indefinitely since the 19-20 July 2026 flooding, and there is no other paved route to either lake. Check UDOT's current road conditions before planning a trip.

It is the largest and most developed of Beaver County's three reservoirs, formed in 1914 by the Rocky Ford Dam on the Beaver River. The state park offers boat docks and launch ramps, culinary water, electric hookups, modern restrooms with hot showers, and 29 campsites.

It is the largest natural lake in the Tushar Mountains, at about 65 acres, sitting in a valley just above where Eagle Point Resort normally operates. In a typical year it draws trout anglers, paddlers and stand up paddleboarders, though it is not currently reachable by road.

A smaller reservoir at about 8,790 feet in the Tushar Mountains, roughly 48 acres, with a dedicated lakeside campground nearby at 8,560 feet that runs about two dozen sites in a normal season. It sits along the same closed stretch of State Route 153 as Puffer Lake.

No. Minersville sits on the Beaver River to the west of town, fed by a different drainage than Beaver Canyon, which runs east. The July 2026 fire and flood affected the eastern canyon drainage specifically, which is why Minersville was untouched while the road to Puffer and Kents Lake was destroyed.

In an ordinary year, yes. Kents Lake has a dedicated lakeside campground nearby running roughly two dozen sites in a typical season, and dispersed and developed camping is common around both lakes as part of the broader Tushar high country. None of it is reachable from Beaver while State Route 153 remains closed.

Substantially. Minersville sits at a valley floor elevation similar to Beaver itself, while Puffer Lake and Kents Lake sit up in the Tushar Mountains at roughly 8,700 to 8,800 feet, more than 2,500 feet higher. That difference means a noticeably shorter fishing season and colder nights at the two mountain lakes in a normal year.

Minersville, yes; it operates as a year round fishery at the state park. Puffer Lake and Kents Lake fish through a shorter open water season at their higher elevation and normally support ice fishing once they freeze, though right now neither is reachable to test either season.