McNulty Reservoir Dam

{{Short description|Dam in Eagle County, Colorado}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2022}}

McNulty Reservoir Dam in Eagle County, Colorado, United States, sits {{convert|2,438|m|ft|abbr=off|order=flip}} above sea level in Colorado's Rocky Mountains between Rifle, Colorado and Vail, Colorado and {{convert|11|km||abbr=off|order=flip}} outside El Jebel, Colorado. The Dam is a water storage that used to be utilized for ranching purposes on the historic Mcnulty Ranch.http://www.geographic.org/geographic_names/usaname.php?uni=201102&fid=usageo_164 Republisher of information from National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

The reservoir and dam are named for Eagle County, Colorado's McNulty family of cattle ranchers. The McNulty family members have been Eagle County, Colorado settlers from the 1880s and cattle ranchers there from the 1920s. A portion of their McNulty Ranch, a one time {{convert|2500| acre||adj=mid| cattle ranch}} operation on the Eagle-Garfield County line, was sold for Open Space conservation to Eagle county in 2006 for approximately $2 million.https://web.archive.org/web/20080704114936/http://www.avlt.org/docs/aspentimes-McNulty.11-26-06.pdf family and ranch historyhttp://www.eaglecounty.us/uploadedFiles/ECG_Website/OpenSpace/Open%20Space%20Areas%20Map.pdf Eagle County, Colorado open space map{{cite web | url=http://www.eaglecounty.us/Planning/Documents/OSAC/One_Sheeters/McNulty_Ranch/ | title=Eagle County }}{{cite web |url=http://www.postindependent.com/article/20060912/VALLEYNEWS/60911006 |title=McNulty ranch may be preserved for $2 million {{!}} PostIndependent.com |website=www.postindependent.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426233316/http://www.postindependent.com/article/20060912/VALLEYNEWS/60911006 |archive-date=2014-04-26}}

It is closed to any public access, fishing, or recreation.