Strawberry Reservoir

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Strawberry Reservoir is located 23 miles southeast of Heber City, Utah on US Highway 40. Major improved access routes to the reservoir include the West Side Road [FS Road 131], Soldier Creek Marina road, and the Soldier Creek dam road.

There are four paved boat ramps at the reservoir including Strawberry Bay Marina, Renegade, Soldier Creek Marina, and Aspen. All of these sites contain developed Forest Service campgrounds.

The Strawberry Bay and Soldier Creek Recreation Complexes are full service developments which contain numerous campground loops, sanitary dump stations, day use areas, group pavilions, and marina stores. In addition, the Strawberry Bay Recreation area contains a restaurant and a full service lodge. There are a variety of additional day use developments around the reservoir at such sites as Haws Point, Mud Creek, Chicken Creek East and West, Soldier Creek Bay, and Soldier Creek Dam. The Forest Service operates a Visitor Information Center at the junction of US-40 and the West Side road.

Fishing Strawberry Reservoir:

Strawberry Reservoir contains four major fishing areas including the Strawberry Basin, Meadows Basin (sometimes referred to Indian Creek Bay), the Narrows, and Soldier Creek Basin. The Strawberry Basin encompasses the old 8,400-acre Strawberry Reservoir which was contained by the original Strawberry Dam and Indian Creek Dike. This is the largest of the four areas and comprises about 64 percent of the entire reservoir volume at high water. Most of the fishing pressure occurs in this area. The Meadows inundates a broad gently sloping valley of the lower Indian Creek Drainage, and is a good place to go fishing. It is located on the south end of the reservoir immediately south of the old Indian Creek Dike. Soldier Creek Basin overlies the old Soldier Creek Reservoir and contains Stinking Springs and Soldier Creek Bay. Soldier Creek is the deepest area of the reservoir, and is often a good place to find schools of kokanee in mid-summer. The Narrows area lies between Strawberry and Soldier Creek and occupies the narrow drainage channels of the Strawberry River and Indian Creek.

Strawberry Valley provides a variety of fishing opportunities from catch and release fishing on reservoir tributaries to trophy cutthroat and rainbow trout fishing on the reservoir. The reservoir is open to fishing yearlong, and there are a variety of seasonal fishing opportunities as well. Most of the fishing pressure and catch occurs from boats. Shoreline fishing is best during the cooler seasons of spring and fall. January and February provide the best ice fishing success. Strawberry has also become a popular float tube destination.