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