Turkey Creek Day Use Area

Turkey Creek Day Use Area is a day-use facility on the east side of the Coralville Lake Dam. Coralville Lake provides many recreational opportunities, including boating, camping, hiking, mountain biking, lake and river fishing, swimming, water skiing, picnicking and hunting. The day-use location offers a large group picnic area with drinking water and electricity. Amenities include flush toilets, a playground and a disc golf course — the Turkey Creek Disc Golf Course, in the Dam Complex, offers nine partially wooden and open holes. Several trails are within the Dam Complex, including Squire Point, Woodpecker Trail, Tailwater Riverwalk and the barrier-free Veterans Trail. Anglers will find large and smallmouth bass, crappie, walleye and catfish. Just below the dam, the Devonian Fossil Gorge offers a unique opportunity to explore a 375-million-year-old sea floor and discover fossil remains of sea life that once inhabited this tropical marine environment; twenty discovery points can be found throughout the site, along with a cell phone audio tour. Coralville Lake is located in the Iowa River Valley, just north of Iowa City. Turkey Creek lies among a heavily wooded forest of mixed hardwood species on the east side of the dam. Wildlife is abundant — white-tailed deer, turkeys, waterfowl, song birds and other species roam the lands around the lake.