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
- Bear Hollow
- Julia Henderson Pioneer Park
- Winlock Road
- Twickenham Area
- Kimberly Area
- Service Creek
- Pine Creek Conservation Area
- Fossil (Town)
- Fossil Sewage Ponds - Farm Pond
- Burnt Ranch Campground
- Hancock Field Station
- John Day Fossil Beds National Monument - Clarno Unit
- Priest Hole
- Umatilla National Forest
- Kahler Basin Road
- Fossil Sewage Ponds
- Clarno Road
- Girds Creek Road
- Shelton Wayside Park
- Bear Hollow County Park
- Butte Creek Summit
- Spray (Town)
- Muleshoe Recreation Area
- Rowe Creek Road
- Butte Creek Road
- Shady Grove Rest Area
- Rowe Creek Reservoir
- Robinson Canyon - Pine Creek Conservation Area
- Cottonwood Creek Road
- Clarno BLM Boat Ramp
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