Bear Lake State Park (Utah)
| Bear Lake State Park | |
| Utah State Park | |
| Country |  United States |
|---|---|
| State |  Utah |
| County | Rich |
| Location | Garden City |
| - elevation | 5,900 ft (1,798 m) [1] |
| - coordinates | 41°50′44″N 111°20′44″W / 41.84556°N 111.34556°WCoordinates: 41°50′44″N 111°20′44″W / 41.84556°N 111.34556°W |
| Founded | 1962 [1] |
| Management | Utah State Parks |
| Visitation | 242,749 (2011) [2] |
| style=""color: #cde5b2"" | IUCN category | V - Protected Landscape/Seascape |
  Location of Bear Lake State Park in Utah
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Bear Lake State Park is a state park of Utah, USA, along the shore of Bear Lake on the Idaho border. It offers three recreation areas: Rendezvous Beach, Bear Lake Marina, and East Beach. The park also hosts many annual events, such as a Mountain Man Rendezvous and Bear Lake Raspberry Days.
Recreational activities include waterskiing, swimming, scuba diving, and sailing. Anglers enjoy year-round fishing for cutthroat trout, mackinaw trout, Bonneville cisco, and whitefish.
Recreation areas
Rendezvous Beach
Rendezvous Beach is named for the historic rendezvous of fur trappers and Native Americans held during the summers of 1827 and 1828. A thousand or more Native Americans and mountain men, including Jedediah Smith, attended these gatherings. There were so many campfires at the south end of the lake at these trading sessions that one observer called the area "a lighted city."[3]
Today Rendezvous Beach is a 1.25-mile-long (2.01 km) recreation area with 220 campsites, along with restrooms, showers, and utility hookups. It is a popular area for large gatherings such as family reunions. A local business rents small boats and personal water craft.[4]
Bear Lake Marina
Bear Lake Marina provides a sheltered harbor, an 80-foot (24 m)-wide concrete boat ramp, boat slips, 13 campsites, restrooms, and showers. There is also a visitor center, along with a business renting boats and selling fishing and boating supplies.
East Side
East Side consists of six primitive camping sites and two concrete boat ramps.
References
This article incorporates public domain material from the Division of Utah State Parks and Recreation document "Bear Lake State Park: About the Park".
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Bear Lake State Park: About the Park". Utah State Parks. Archived from the original on 16 March 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-04.
- ↑ "Utah State Park 2011 Visitation". Utah State Parks Planning. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
- ↑ "Bear Lake State Park". Utah State Parks.
- ↑ "Bear Lake Camping and Picnics". Bear Lake Convention and Visitors Bureau.