Bully Creek Reservoir is located ten miles west of Vale, Oregon. It was constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation in 1963 and is operated by the Vale Oregon Irrigation District. When full it covers 1000 acres and holds 30,000 acre feet of water.
This park is operated and maintained by Malheur County since 1966 and it consists of 40 campsites. The camp and day use areas have about 14 acres of lawn and trees.
I must say this is not one of the prettiest lakes we’ve been around but it certainly was a nice respite from the high desert sagebrush we’d been looking at for the past 147 miles since leaving Chickahominy Reservoir! You kinda take your chances when traveling through arid areas in the western states if you want to stay near any water. Turned out this is quite a popular spot for some of the locals. We met a sweet little couple from Ontario, OR who had been coming to Bully Creek Park for some 35 years! They commented that they had seen it when it was bare ground and had watched when trees and grass plus other improvements were done over the years .They felt they had sorta seen the park “grow up.”
We spent lovely moments watching the sunsets as ducks, eagles even gulls would flit and fly, hang and hunt, then simply float. Some settled on the lake while others came ashore to hunker down or flew into trees to grasp a branch, all becoming sweetly silent at the time the last colors of the sunset turned to soft gray tones. We all rested well and felt refreshed after four days of soft nature.
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