Hoover Creek Road/Hoover Creek Reservoir
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Location
Take Hwy 19 north out of Fossil for about 1 mile and look for Hoover Creek as it crosses under the road. About a mile and a half farther, you will see Hoover Cr. Road. Take this road about 1.8 miles and you will see a large pond on your right after a farm house. This is Hoover Reservoir (45.029097, -120.185863) Hoover Creek Road/Hoover Creek Reservoir This body of water is on private land so please bird from the road.
DirectionsHabitat and Birds
The riparian area along the creek is good for migrants or the occasional Spotted Towhee. Listen for Pinyon Jays along Hoover Creek Road. Hoover Creek Reservoir can have just about any kind of waterfowl on it.
Nearby Birding Locations
- Spray (Town)
- Robinson Canyon - Pine Creek Conservation Area
- Clarno BLM Boat Ramp
- Rowe Creek Road
- Muleshoe Recreation Area
- Pine Creek Conservation Area
- Bear Hollow
- Bear Hollow County Park
- Fossil (Town)
- Twickenham Area
- Cottonwood Creek Road
- Clarno Road
- Butte Creek Summit
- Girds Creek Road
- Kahler Basin Road
- Hancock Field Station
- Shelton Wayside Park
- Kimberly Area
- Shady Grove Rest Area
- Priest Hole
- Service Creek
- Julia Henderson Pioneer Park
- Fossil Sewage Ponds - Farm Pond
- John Day Fossil Beds National Monument - Clarno Unit
- Winlock Road
- Burnt Ranch Campground
- Umatilla National Forest
- Butte Creek Road
- Fossil Sewage Ponds
- Rowe Creek Reservoir
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