Piute State Park
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| Piute State Park | |
| Utah State Park | |
| Country |  United States |
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| State |  Utah |
| County | Piute |
| Location | Junction |
| - elevation | 5,900 ft (1,798 m) [1] |
| - coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Area | 40 acres (16 ha) [2] |
| Founded | 1963 [1] |
| Management | Utah State Parks |
| Visitation | 17,531 (2011) [3] |
| IUCN category | V - Protected Landscape/Seascape |
  Location of Piute State Park in Utah
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Piute State Park is a Utah state park. It is located just north of Junction. This park is a primitive area; there are no facilities. Piute offers camping, swimming, boating, and fishing for rainbow, cutthroat, and brown trout.
History
Robert D. Young, who also built the nearby Otter Creek dam, built Piute Reservoir on the main fork of the Sevier River 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 (the Native American people), to Piute.[1]
References
This article incorporates public domain material from the website of the Division of Utah State Parks and Recreation.
