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Red Willow State Recreation Area

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Phone:
+1 308-345-5899

Address:
72718 Trail 2, McCook, NE 69001-4331

Red Willow Dam is a dam in Frontier County, Nebraska, about ten miles northwest of McCook. The earthen dam was constructed from 1960 to 1962 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, with a height of 126 feet. It impounds Willow Creek for flood control, part of the Frenchman-Cambridge Division of the Bureau's extensive Pick–Sloan Missouri Basin Program. The dam is owned and operated by the Bureau. The reservoir it creates, Hugh Butler Lake, has a water surface of 1,629 acres, 4,461 land acres, about 35 miles of shoreline, and a maximum water capacity of 86,630 acre-feet. Recreation includes fishing , hunting, boating, camping and hiking. The shore borders Nebraska's Red Willow Reservoir State Recreation Area.
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