East Canyon, twelve miles of state route and four different landlords.

Twelve miles southeast on SR-66, and that figure comes from Utah State Parks itself rather than from a map. Its brochure states that from Morgan it is 12 miles southeast on Highway 66, and separately that the park is 35 miles northeast of Salt Lake City. From Interstate 84 the park's visitor questions page routes drivers off at the Morgan and Highway 66 exit and then about half a mile to the entrance near the dam. No public body publishes a drive time for that twelve miles, so any figure you see for it, including the one on this site's own Morgan city guide, is somebody's estimate computed from a map.

The park opens at 6 a.m. and closes for day use at 10 p.m., year round, with no holiday closures, on the park's own visitor questions page and its brochure. Day use is 20 dollars a vehicle and a day use pavilion is 50 dollars flat. Camping runs 40 dollars a night for a single site with no hookup at Big Rock, 50 to 90 dollars at Dixie Creek depending on hookup and vehicle count, 150 dollars for a yurt, cabin, camper trailer or Conestoga wagon, and 200 for the lake cottage, with 25 dollars a night for each extra vehicle. The fee page carries no effective date anywhere on it, so these are as posted on 21 August 2026.

It moves, and that is the point. On 21 August 2026 the park's own front page read 55 percent of capacity with the water at 79 degrees, algae status clear and courtesy docks in for summer. The reading the previous day was 64 percent at 76 degrees, so it fell nine points in twenty four hours, which is a bigger single day move than a normal late summer drawdown and may be a correction rather than a drop. Either way, the number is live and no page should hard code it. Utah State Parks publishes the level, the temperature, the algae status, the dock line and any closures in one block on the park's page.

Yes, but not from the state. The park lists watercraft rentals among its offerings while the rentals themselves are run by a concession, and the two state documents name that concession differently: the brochure calls it the East Canyon Marina and gives 801-829-4988, while the park's live visitor questions page says rentals go through the General Store and lists kayaks, paddleboards, canoes, jet skis, an open bow boat and a pontoon boat. The safe description is the park's concession, and the reliable number is the park's own, 801-829-6866, which is also the line for booking boat decontamination by reservation.

One place, on the park's own answer. Its visitor questions page states that the only place you can hike is the Mormon Flat trail, which connects the Mormon Flat campground to Big Mountain. The brochure describes Mormon Flats, four miles south of the reservoir and also managed by East Canyon State Park, as offering a four mile trail for hiking, biking and wildlife viewing, or snowshoeing and cross country skiing in winter, with remnants of Fort Wells visible, a stronghold built in 1857. A 28 mile non motorised trail connection toward Park City and Echo circulates for this park and was not verified at any public body.

Both, in different layers, and Reclamation itself sets out the split. The Bureau of Reclamation built the dam standing today as the final stage of the Weber Basin Project, with storage beginning on 21 December 1965 and the last concrete poured on 14 January 1966. Operation and maintenance of the project passed to the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District on 1 October 1968. And Reclamation's project history states that the Utah Division of Parks and Recreation is responsible for Rockport Lake, Willard Bay, East Canyon Reservoir and Lost Creek Reservoir, while the Forest Service administers Causey and Pineview. Before any of that, a private canal company built the first dam here in 1896.

Utah State Parks gives the surface as 684 acres at full pool in its brochure, which carries a 2009 print code, and surface acreage moves with the level, so a reservoir reading 55 percent is smaller than that. No capacity figure is printed on this page, deliberately: Reclamation's live project record, its own 2001 project history and the state parks brochure give three different acre foot figures for this reservoir, and two of the project history's numbers appear transposed with Lost Creek's. Where the issuing body contradicts itself, the honest answer is to name the disagreement rather than pick a side.

The species the state's own documents will support are trout, smallmouth bass, crappie and wiper. The park's visitor questions page prints bag limits of four trout, eight bass, eight wipers and fifty crappie and names three fishing spots: near the dam, the south end, and the area it spells Taylor Hallow, which the map calls Taylor Hollow. The brochure adds crawfish. One important caveat: bag limits are set by the Division of Wildlife Resources, not by a state park, so the park page is quoting the guidebook second hand. Carry the current Utah Fishing Guidebook rather than a park summary of it.

Not on 21 August 2026. The park was posting Stage 2 fire restrictions in these words: no open fires of any kind, including fires within an established fire pit, charcoal grills, pellet grills, or ash producing fuel. That takes the fire ring out of a camping trip entirely and it is a rule that changes within a season rather than between seasons, so it has to be checked on the day rather than assumed from the month. Utah State Parks posts the current stage in the alert bar on the park's own page, along with any closures, and it is the only body publishing it.