Sports & Outdoors
Steamboat Rock State Park
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Sports & Outdoors
Banks Lake Wildlife Area Unit
A Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife unit surrounding Banks Lake, an irrigation reservoir ringed by basalt cliffs and shrubsteppe.
6653 Road K NE Moses Lake, WA 98837 · Moses Lake, WA
About Banks Lake Wildlife Area Unit
The Banks Lake Unit wraps around most of Banks Lake, a man-made irrigation reservoir in the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project. The lake is fed from Lake Roosevelt and bounded by the North Dam and the Dry Falls Dam. Much of the shoreline is lined with basalt cliffs and talus slopes, while the drier uplands hold shallow soils and shrubsteppe habitat. The unit covers about 17,064 acres and is managed by WDFW on land owned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Visitors mainly come to boat, fish, watch wildlife such as mule deer, bald eagles, peregrine falcons and common loons, and hunt upland birds, especially pheasants released each fall. Several boat launches, restrooms and a campground are reached from Highway 155. A Discover Pass is needed to park on WDFW lands here.
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