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On the Dolores River in southwestern Colorado. It's named for the abandoned logging town of McPhee, whose site was drowned by the reservoir. The dam forming the reservoir was constructed in the early 1980s, surprisingly late, after the heyday of dam-building in the US west. Another interesting tidbit is that they also had to build a dike, the Great Cut Dike, across a low saddle to keep from diverting the Dolores River into the San Juan drainage! Looking southeasterly toward Mesa Verde.