Soda Butte Creek

Soda Butte Creek
River
Soda Butte Creek
Country	United States
State	Wyoming
Source
- location	, Yellowstone National Park, Montana
Mouth	Lamar River
- location	Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
- elevation	6,601 ft (2,012 m)

Soda Butte Creek is an approximately 20 miles (32 km) long major tributary of the Lamar River in Yellowstone National Park. It is named for a now-extinct geyser (Soda Butte) near its mouth. Soda Butte and the creek were named by A. Bart Henderson, a Cooke City miner, in 1870. It rises just outside the northeast corner of the park on the southern slopes of the Absaroka Range near Cooke City, Montana. The Northeast East Entrance road parallels Soda Butte Creek for its entire length within the park. Soda Butte Creek is a popular angling destination for native Yellowstone cutthroat trout.

Angling

Soda Butte Creek is a popular angling destination for fly fisherman. It holds brook trout in it upper reaches, mostly cutthroat trout and a few rainbow trout in its lower section. Because of spring runoff, the creek is generally not fishable until mid-July. All rainbow and brook trout caught must be killed.

Images of Soda Butte Creek
Soda Butte, ca 1872 William Henry Jackson  Soda Butte Creek, circa 1890  Soda Creek, January 2009  Soda Butte, December 2009

See also

• Angling in Yellowstone National Park
• Fishes of Yellowstone National Park