Antelope Lake

General data

Name: Antelope Lake
Water system: Sacramento River
Water type: Artificial lake
Progression: Indian Creek (Plumas County, California) -> East Branch North Fork Feather River -> North Fork Feather River -> Lake Oroville -> Feather River -> Sacramento River -> Suisun Bay -> Carquinez Strait -> San Pablo Bay -> San Francisco Bay -> Golden Gate strait -> Pacific Ocean -> Planet Earth
Climates: Temperate
Continents: North America
Countries: United States of America

The earthen dam was constructed in 1964 by the California Department of Water Resources with a height of 113 feet (34 m) and a length of 1,320 feet (400 m) at its crest.

It impounds Indian Creek for water storage, recreation and wildlife conservation, part of the state's larger Upper Feather River Project.

The reservoir it creates, called Antelope Lake or Antelope Reservoir, has a water surface of 931 acres (377 ha), a forested shoreline of about 15 miles (24 km), a maximum capacity of 47,466 acre-feet (58,548,000 m3), and a normal capacity of 22,566 acre-feet (27,835,000 m3).

The major tributaries are Indian, Boulder, Lone Rock, Antelope, and Little Antelope Creeks.

The outlet is Indian Creek, a tributary of the East Branch North Fork Feather River.

The Antelope Complex, Moonlight, and Walker Fires all burned within the vicinity of the lake.

Recreation includes fishing (for stocked rainbow and brook trout, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, and channel catfish), camping in the 194 campsites of the surrounding Antelope Lake Recreation Area, boating, swimming, hunting, and hiking.[5

Antelope Lake

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