The boat launch with the deepest channel. The trail to the gorge. The farm stand that takes Venmo. The icon you've heard of and the one you haven't.
A marina in historic downtown Clarksville, Virginia's only lakeside town — a gas dock, slips, a general store, and pontoon boat rentals.
A marina on the North Carolina side near Henderson, part of the Satterwhite Point & Rudd's Creek marina group.
A marina and campground twelve miles from Henderson off I-85, at the end of Townsville Landing Road on the North Carolina side.
A state park a mile east of Clarksville on Route 58, leased for recreational use since 1968 — three boat ramps with 24-hour access, cabins, campsites, an equestrian campground, and a private concession renting boats. No designated swim beach, but several campsites sit right on the shoreline.
Built by the Army Corps of Engineers between 1947 and 1953 on the Roanoke River in Mecklenburg County, a few hundred feet upstream from an island once belonging to descendants of Samuel Bugg — the dam that gives the lake both its official name (Kerr Lake) and its local one (Buggs Island Lake).