You’re invited to row, row, row your boat to the 1996 Olympic Rowing Venue to take part in the 2013 Lanier Sprints Regatta. Your pitiful rowboat won’t have any chance of winning, but you’re invited anyway. Rowing is an elegant sport performed by non-whining athletes who …
Category: Lake Lanier Olympic Venue
Clarks Bridge to be Replaced
The new bridge that will be built over the Chattahoochee River near the 1996 Olympic Rowing Venue on State Route 284/Clarks Bridge Road will do more than shuttle motor vehicles over the water. If you have ever attended an event at Clarks Bridge Park or …
Fishing Boat Hits Rowing Shell on Lake Lanier
Rowing is an elegant sport. It’s marvelous to watch sportsmen working in unison as they glide a shell of a boat — that appears to be a large pencil cut in half from end to end — across Lake Lanier or the Chattahoochee River. Spectators often wonder …
Special Event Permits for Lake Lanier
You and I are not as rich as rich people, so we probably won’t ever face the enormous struggle of trying to rent Lake Lanier for our own personal party. But if we win the lottery or figure out how to turn kudzu into gold, …
Polar Bear Swim Makes a Splash
Almost 100 hearty souls gathered by the Olympic Timing Tower at Clarks Bridge Park in Gainesville for the Polar Bear Swim sponsored by the Lake Lanier Canoe and Kayak Club (LCKC). The shrewd leaders of the LCKC have discovered what can only be termed a Jedi …
Polar Bear Swim on New Year’s Day
There are probably screwier activities than jumping off a perfectly safe, dry boat dock into frigid water when there is absolutely no need to do so. Okay, that’s a lie. Jumping into cold water in the middle of winter takes the frozen cake, in my …
Database of Open Boat Ramps on Lake Lanier
Our friend Nick Baggett — US Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Lake Lanier Natural Resource Manager — kindly sent lakelanier.com links to the updated USACE website. Nick’s help makes the search for open boat ramps on Lake Lanier a simple process. You won’t have to rely on rumors …
Thanks from lakelanier.com
Happy Thanksgiving! There have been hard days and nights on Lake Lanier this year. Not everyone who came to the lake to enjoy fun times with family and friends returned home afterward. We grieve with those who grieve. We live, work and play in one of …
Talks on Olympic Rowing Venue’s Future
Newspapers from Gainesville to San Francisco are reporting about meetings between City of Gainesville leaders and our friends at the Greater Hall County Chamber of Commerce about reinvigorating the site of the 1996 Olympic Rowing Venue on Lake Lanier. In the Gainesville Times newspaper’s online edition, …
Taste of Gainesville Pictures
Only one thing could have improved Saturday night’s Taste of Gainesville: $100 bills falling from the sky. Perfect doesn’t adequately describe the evening. The combination of fabulous food, the world-renowned Olympic rowing venue on Lake Lanier, glorious weather and scads of fun people … added up to a better-than- …