Piute offers camping, swimming, boating, and fishing for rainbow, cutthroat, and brown trout.

Robert D. Young, who also built the nearby Otter Creek dam, built Piute Reservoir on the main fork of the Sevier River in 1908.

Both the reservoir and county are named for the Native Americans who dominated this area at one time.

The state legislature changed the original spelling, from Paiute (the Native American people), to Piute.

[2] This article incorporates public domain material from the website of the Utah Division of State Parks.