Lost Creek, a state park that exists because a bill said it could.

Partly. The park's own page, read 21 August 2026, states that Lost Creek State Park is currently in major construction and amenities improvements as of June 1st 2025. The Little Trail Creek area below the dam is closed to all day use and camping activities except fishing in the creek, and the Deer Hollow area, the first parking lot before crossing the dam, will experience intermittent closures throughout the construction process. The rest of the park is open. Utah State Parks does not publish what is being built or when the work finishes, so the answer goes out of date in days and belongs to the park page rather than to any other source.

Day use is 10 dollars per vehicle per day with annual passes accepted, and camping is 20 dollars per vehicle per night, both as posted on the park's fee page on 21 August 2026 with no effective date printed anywhere on it. All camping is first come first served and no reservation system is published. Day use fees can be paid through the state parks pass system. For comparison, East Canyon at the other end of the same county charges 20 dollars for day use and 40 dollars and upward to camp, which is the most concrete way to describe the difference between a developed park and an undeveloped one.

By statute. House Bill 257 of the 2021 general session, Utah State Park Amendments, enacted Utah Code 79-4-608, which provides that the division may enter into an agreement with the United States Bureau of Reclamation to manage recreational operations at Lost Creek Reservoir and to use the Lost Creek area as a state park, and that upon the division entering such an agreement the Lost Creek area shall be included within the state park system as Lost Creek State Park. The chief sponsor was Representative Steve Eliason with Senator David P. Hinkins in the Senate, and the effective date was 5 May 2021.

No, and the bill itself says why not. House Bill 257 appropriated 36,500,000 dollars one time from the general fund to the Division of Parks capital budget for the fiscal year beginning 1 July 2021, under a schedule of renovation and development, with the use of nonlapsing funds limited to the development of Utahraptor State Park and Lost Creek State Park, and with up to 7,500,000 dollars earmarked to acquire land in the Dalton Wells area for Utahraptor. The money is shared between two parks at opposite ends of Utah and no split between them is published, so quoting it as this park's budget quotes a figure that was never that.

Only waterfowl, and the limit is written into the statute rather than into a regulation. Subsection 4 of Utah Code 79-4-608 reads in full that hunting wildlife in Lost Creek State Park is limited to waterfowl only. That is unusual enough to be worth knowing before planning anything else, and it is a rule about what the park is rather than an invitation to do it. Everything about seasons, licences and limits belongs to the Division of Wildlife Resources and its current guidebook, not to the park and not to this page.

The Bureau of Reclamation built it as the close of the second round of Weber Basin Project construction, and its own project history records the trouble. Work on the earthfill structure began in July 1963. Winter weather forced crews to divert the stream through three thirty six inch culverts, the delays drove the contractor, Steenburg Construction Company, to abandon the contract in September 1965, and officials terminated it for default on 28 September. LeGrand Johnson Construction took the contract on 15 May 1966 and the dam was finished in January 1967. It stands 248 feet high with a crest length of 1,078 feet, holds a surface area of 365 acres, and sits twelve miles upstream of Lost Creek's confluence with the Weber River.

It moves, and during this research it moved in a way that proves the point. On 20 August 2026 the park's page read 41 percent of capacity at 78 degrees with a note that the boat ramp wedge dock had been removed due to low water. On 21 August it read 34 percent at 78 degrees with the line changed to open water and the boat ramp wedge dock accessible. The water fell seven points and the dock came back, which is the opposite of what a low water removal implies. Both readings are printed here and neither is preferred. Never hard code a reservoir condition from any page, including this one.

No public body names one. Utah State Parks describes the park as a place people paddle, fish, swim and camp, in a wakeless setting, and does not list a single species. Rainbow and cutthroat trout circulate in aggregator text and are not printed here as fact, because no reading of the Division of Wildlife Resources guidebook or its stocking reports for this water was completed in this research. Anybody fishing here should carry the current Utah Fishing Guidebook, which is the issuing document for species, limits and any tributary closures, rather than a summary of it from anywhere else.

East on Interstate 84 to the Croydon exit, then north on Lost Creek Road. Utah State Parks places the park approximately ten miles northeast of Croydon in Morgan County and publishes nothing else about the approach: no surface, no statement of where pavement ends and no seasonal status. Lost Creek Road is a county road, so it does not appear on the state transportation department's seasonal closure list, which means only that the state does not gate it. Note also that Reclamation puts the dam twelve miles northwest of Devil's Slide while the state puts the park ten miles northeast of Croydon, and Croydon and Devil's Slide are neighbours, so the two bearings disagree.