Keyhole Reservoir below the Tower
— — the long water under the standing rock.
Not only on a wall.
“A wide impoundment on the Belle Fourche River in the Wyoming Black Hills, with Devils Tower rising on the horizon to the north. Walleye and smallmouth hold along the rocky points. Mornings come in flat and grey-blue; the pines along the shoreline darken first. The Tower is forty miles off, but on clear days the silhouette sits on the skyline like something the lake is waiting on. — from the studio
Keyhole Reservoir below the Tower, on ceramic.
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Keyhole Reservoir holds the Belle Fourche River behind an earthen dam in Crook County, in the northeast corner of Wyoming. The reservoir is the centerpiece of Keyhole State Park and covers roughly 14,720 acres at full pool, set among ponderosa pine ridges on the western edge of the Black Hills. The dam was built by the Bureau of Reclamation in 1952 for irrigation downstream. Devils Tower National Monument sits about forty miles north and is visible from several points along the shoreline.
Walleye is the species most anglers come for, with smallmouth bass, northern pike, channel catfish, and yellow perch also present in the reservoir. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department manages the fishery and posts annual stocking and survey reports. Water levels swing with irrigation draws and snowpack on the Bighorn divide upstream, so the shoreline can move a quarter mile between a high-water June and a low-water October. The Belle Fourche enters from the west and exits east toward South Dakota.
Keyhole State Park has several developed campgrounds, two boat ramps, a marina at Pine Haven, and around twenty miles of shoreline open for day use. The town of Moorcroft sits ten miles south on Interstate 90 and is the nearest fuel and grocery stop. Devils Tower National Monument is roughly an hour's drive north on US-14 and Wyoming-24. Most visitors come for fishing, camping, and quiet boating; summer weekends draw boats from across the region, while autumn turns the park nearly empty.