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Summer Falls state park

Location

Nine miles south of Coulee City on Pinto Ridge Road, Grant County.

Acreage

260 acres with approximately 5 miles of freshwater shoreline.

Acquired

This park was acquired in 1953 from the Bureau of Reclamation via a 50-year memorandum of agreement.

Historical Background

The park is located on Billy Clapp Lake, a man-made lake used as a holding reservoir by the Bureau of Reclamation. Bill Clapp was an early settler, active as a historian and politician. The falls have water running over them only in the summer, from irrigation water, thus the park's