Blue Mountain Lake (Arkansas)

This article is about the lake in Arkansas. For the lake in New York, see Blue Mountain Lake (New York lake).

Blue Mountain Lake is a reservoir in Arkansas, United States. A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lake on the Petit Jean River in west central Arkansas, Blue Mountain Lake has approximately 50 miles of shoreline, located between Mount Magazine and the Ouachita Mountains just west of Havana, Arkansas.

Blue Mountain Lake
Lake as viewed from an overlook
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Location	Logan / Yell counties, Arkansas, United States
Coordinates	35.101372°N 93.70101°W / 35.101372; -93.70101
Type	Reservoir
Primary inflows	Petit Jean River
Primary outflows	Petit Jean River
Basin countries	United States
Surface elevation	413 ft (126 m)

Blue Mountain Dam was built in 1947 as a 115-foot-high, 2800-foot-long earthen structure, creating a reservoir with a surface area of about 4.5 square miles, about 50 miles of shoreline, and a maximum capacity of 258,000 acre-feet. Dam and reservoir are owned by operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.^[1]

The lake offers fishing, boating, swimming and camping; it is also the focal point of the view from the lodge atop Mount Magazine, home of Mount Magazine State Park.

Blue Mountain Lake is accessible from Highway 10 west of Havana by turning south on Highway 309. Waveland Park is the primary access point to the lake, with Lick Creek and Ashley Creek providing limited access as well.

References

1. "Blue Mountain Lake". Archived from the original on 2010-12-15.

Bibliography

• Farquhar, Carley (1966). The Sportsman's Almanac. New York: Harper and Row.
• Sutton, Keith B (2000). Fishing Arkansas. Fayatteville: University of Arkansas Press.

External links

• USACE Profile: Blue Mountain Lake^{[permanent dead link]}
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Blue Mountain Lake (Arkansas)
• Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture entry