{"id":34591,"date":"2023-04-18T09:27:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T15:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/boat-ramps-will-open-at-mcphee-reservoir-april-21-and-may-1\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:19:25","slug":"boat-ramps-will-open-at-mcphee-reservoir-april-21-and-may-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/boat-ramps-will-open-at-mcphee-reservoir-april-21-and-may-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Boat ramps will open at McPhee Reservoir April 21 and May 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d4db7fc3-f67c-4e46-904c-ce3566fda282&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1161\" alt=\"A pontoon boat docks at the McPhee Reservoir boat ramp. The ramp at McPhee will open April 17.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A pontoon boat docks at the McPhee Reservoir boat ramp. The ramp at McPhee will open April 17.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The San Juan National Forest\u2019s Dolores Ranger District will open access to McPhee Reservoir on Friday, April 21, for motorized boating.<\/p>\n<p>Operational hours for the main McPhee boat ramp are:<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-x-im-unordered-list\">Opening day to April 30:  8 a.m. \u2013 6 p.m.May 1 \u2013 Sept. 19:  6 a.m. \u2013 8 p.m.Sept. 20 \u2013 Oct. 31: 8 a.m. \u2013 6 p.m.<\/div>\n<p>Operational hours for the House Creek boat ramp are:<\/p>\n<p>May 1 \u2013 Oct. 1: 6 a.m. \u2013 8 p.m., Friday \u2013 Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A current boat registration is required to launch a vessel on the reservoir. Registration information can be found at Colorado Parks and Wildlife\u2019s website. Aquatic Nuisance Species inspectors will be on-site to conduct prelaunch inspections of trailered and motorized boats launching on to the reservoir to help stop the spread of zebra or quagga mussels and other invasive species.<\/p>\n<p>Boaters who need a full inspection and decontamination are urged to visit the lake on a weekday when the reservoir is less busy. Boaters who have tags from last year\u2019s inspections on McPhee will be able to enter the lake quicker than boaters who need inspections.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit the San Juan National Forest Boating webpage or contact the Dolores Ranger District at (970) 882-7296.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McPhee ramp opens first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-34591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82669,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34591\/revisions\/82669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34591"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=34591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}