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Potholes State Park
(redirected from Potholes Reservoir)

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Potholes State Park

Location: 17 miles southwest of Moses Lake, just east of the Cascades.
Facilities: 61 standard campsites, 60 utility campsites, group camp, 4 showers (2 @di), picnic shelters, hiking trails, beach, boat ramps, dock, ball fields.
Activities: Boating, camping, fishing, hiking, swimming, water-skiing, white-water kayaking.
Special Features: Potholes Reservoir (also called O'Sullivan Reservoir) was formed as a result of two major events. First, huge depressions were made in the earth during the Pleistocene flooding. Then, during the 1950s, those depressions were filled with water (making "pothole" lakes) when the water table rose with the creation of O'Sullivan Dam.
Address: 6762 Hwy 262 E
Othello, WA 99344
Phone: 509-346-2759;
Web: www.parks.wa.gov/parkpage.asp?selectedpark=Potholes
Size: 640 acres.

See other parks in Washington.


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The geology from the mountains east to Idaho is much more dry than is the west, with much of the waterfowling taking place over agricultural ground, flooded corn, moving water such as the Columbia River, or large impoundments such as the famed Sand Dunes portion of Potholes Reservoir.
 
 
 
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