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Hello my friends, it's Simon from LakeHub. Today coming at you from southeastern Tennessee
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at Lake Chickamauga. Now this is one of the many lakes in the Tennessee River Valley
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and as such it's governed by the Tennessee Valley Association. This lake does have a hydro plant on
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the dam and a lock so that boats and ships can move up and down the Tennessee River which
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I think is just awesome. I love marvels of engineering. This lake is pretty big
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it's about 60 miles long, it's about 36,000 acres and over 800 miles of shoreline because it's long
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and skinny. Max depth is about 72 feet. This lake sits in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains
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in eastern Tennessee looking at about 680 feet of elevation at full pool. In the chain of lakes
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in the Tennessee River Valley, Lake Chickamauga sits between Watts Bar which is upstream and
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Nick Jack Lake which is downstream. As you can see behind me it is a wild and gorgeous lake
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That water is just Tennessee beauty right there. I mean it's just pretty. It's summertime but it's
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pretty mild weather and beautiful scenery. This lake is great for recreation. It's great, fantastic
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for fishing. A lot of bass tournaments held here. A lot of the activity is going to be on the
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southern end because this lake is a playground for Chattanooga, Tennessee and nearby Cleveland
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Tennessee, kind of smaller city east of Chattanooga. So that's where most of the activity is going to
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be. There's two state parks, Harrison Bay State Park and Booker T Washington State Park. So there
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is plenty of camping around this lake. There's also plenty of amenities and lots and lots of
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access. In fact right now you can see I'm on a rural boat ramp and when you see rural boat ramps
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and little bridges like this, county roads, then you know that there is plenty of access for a lake
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There's two bigger more notable bridges State Highway 30 and State Highway 60 that cross the
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lake. The lake itself is named for the Chickamauga Cherokee people, original inhabitants
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of this area. If you know anything about the Cherokee Nation, it was kind of this massive
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conglomerate of lots of different tribes and different types of people. That's it for today
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I'm Simon from LakeUP and we'll see you at the next lake
