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 …
Category: Lake Lanier
Lake Lanier is Rising Up!
After a scary storm in late January, Lake Lanier is rising up! Torrential rain from Wednesday, January 30, 2013 in our region — which spawned a deadly tornado in Adairsville, 60 miles northwest of Atlanta — is flowing into Lake Lanier under sunny skies. Full pool during …
Road Atlanta’s 2013 Event Schedule
Living in our area and not attending events at Road Atlanta is like living in California and never saying “Dude!” or like living in Hawaii and never trying to surf or snorkel or like living in Minneeappolliss, Minneessoottaa and not going for a sightseeing ride …
Wake the Lake Cable Park on Lake Lanier, Dude!
Surf’s up, Moondoggie. Before you know it, you’ll be able to grab your stick and get stoked right here on Lake Lanier! Will Kurhanewicz and Krista Goodrich — Krista, in my opinion, could easily rule the Known World and still be a successful mother, wife …
Lake Lanier’s Corps of Engineers Website
I have good news and I have bad news. First, the bad news. All your old links to Lake Lanier’s Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Web pages are toast. Broken. 404. Vaporized and otherwise lost. Sorry. Here’s the good news! The USACE has updated …
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, …
Shane Watson’s Lake Lanier Fishing Report (01-08-2013)
Trophy Stripers on Lake Lanier January is here and that means it’s time to drag big trout around for a trophy striper. Over the next four months, you will see most of your 35+ pound fish caught on Lanier for the year. That’s not to …
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 …
Lanier’s Sawnee Campground Open All Winter
Ranger Andrea Wagner, U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s (USACE) campground manager for Lake Lanier, has good news for us. For the first time, one of the lake’s campgrounds will be open all winter. Ranger Wagner tells us Sawnee Campground, near Buford Dam, will remain open …