Visited 01/21/2018 – Jeff and I loaded up our two dogs, Summer and Skye and took a nice Sunday drive up to the Sierra Foothills in our Jeep Wrangler. Just above Sugar Pine Reservoir we encountered lots of snow from the recent storms. Even though we did not have chains, we kicked it into 4 wheel drive and did just fine navigating the snow packed roads. Sugar Pine Reservoir is 165 acres in size at an elevation of 3,609 feet above sea level. This reservoir is located approximately 7 miles north of Foresthill. The reservoir was flooded in 1982, and today supplies water to the community of Foresthill and hosts a number of recreation facilities.
The reservoir was created in 1982 with the construction of Sugar Pine Dam over North Shirttail Creek, a tributary of the North Fork American River, as part of the Auburn-Folsom South Unit of the Central Valley Project. Although Sugar Pine Dam was funded through the Central Valley Project, it was never integrated into the project operationally, as it was intended to work with the never-completed Auburn Dam. According to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), during the 1987–1992 California drought the reservoir performed well, filling and spilling and meeting its water obligations each year but one. In 2003, the community of Foresthill purchased Sugar Pine Reservoir, Sugar Pine Dam, and its conveyance system from the USBR for $3.1 million. As of 2012[update], the Foresthill Public Utility District provides water to 1,875 homes and 75 businesses in and around Foresthill.
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