Piute State Park is a
Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...
state park
State parks are parks or other protected areas managed at the sub-national level within those nations which use "Federated state, state" as a political subdivision. State parks are typically established by a state to preserve a location on accou ...
. It is located just north of
Junction
Junction may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Junction'' (2012 film), an American film
* ''Junction'' (2024 film), an American film
* ''Jjunction'', a 2002 Indian film
* ''Junction'' (album), a 1976 album by Andrew Cyrille
* Junction (E ...
. This park is a primitive area; there are no facilities. Piute offers camping, swimming, boating, and fishing for
rainbow
A rainbow is an optical phenomenon caused by refraction, internal reflection and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a continuous spectrum of light appearing in the sky. The rainbow takes the form of a multicoloured circular ...
,
cutthroat, and
brown trout
The brown trout (''Salmo trutta'') is a species of salmonid ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the genus ''Salmo'', endemic to most of Europe, West Asia and parts of North Africa, and has been widely introduced globally ...
.
History
Robert D. Young, who also built the nearby
Otter Creek dam, built Piute Reservoir on the main fork of the
Sevier River
The Sevier River (pronounced "severe") is a -long river in the Great Basin of southwestern Utah in the United States. Originating west of Bryce Canyon National Park, the river flows north through a chain of high farming valleys and steep canyon ...
in 1908. Both the reservoir and county are named for the Native Americans who dominated this area at one time. The state legislature changed the original spelling, from
Paiute
Paiute (; also Piute) refers to three non-contiguous groups of Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin. Although their languages are related within the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages, these three languages do not form a single subgroup and th ...
(the Native American people), to Piute.
See also
*
List of Utah State Parks
Utah State Parks is the common name for the Utah Division of State Parks; a division of the Utah Department of Natural Resources. This is the state agency that manages the state park system of the state of Utah in the United States.
Ut ...
References
External links
Piute State Park official site
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Protected areas of Piute County, Utah
Protected areas established in 1963
State parks of Utah