Ranger Andrea Wagner, Army Corps of Engineer’s 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. Sawnee Campground, near Buford Dam, will remain open from now until Sunday, March 24, …
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Stuff to Do This Weekend
In less civilized climates, people are sharpening their ice skates, dusting off their snowshoes and shining their snowmobiles for winter. Here in Paradise, it’s time to party! There’s so much to choose from in autumn … the Cumming Country Fair Cornelia’s Big Red Apple Festival …
Mule Camp Market Festival
Gainesville, Georgia, was formerly known as “Mule Camp Springs.” According to one legend, the name was changed when men could not find wives who wanted to live in a place called “Mule Camp Springs” — not even on Hog Mountain Road — so they changed the …
Corps Changes Course on Chattahoochee River Locks
Greg Bluestein wrote a well documented and well written story for AJC.com’s October 6, 2012 paper edition detailing the Army Corps of Engineers’ new policy on manning the Chattahoochee River’s network of locks south of Columbus, Georgia. The locks will continue to operate and allow navigation that …
Elachee Nature Center’s Safari Benefit Dinner
Elachee Nature Science Center is a 1,500-acre undeveloped treasure inside Gainesville, GA’s city limits that melds four diverse habitats: woodland, lake, stream and wetland. Thankfully, it will remain undeveloped — due to the conservation easement that was finally granted in 2001, about 23 years after the …
Wanted: Farm House for Zombie Movie
Would I lie to you? Oh, sure. For a million dollars, maybe. But not about something as important as a movie company needing to use a vacant farm house in North Georgia to film a zombie movie. [Please Note: You probably have to actually own …
Right to Hike’s 5th Annual Ella’s Run
Right to Hike, Inc. (RTH) is one of our favorite non-profit organizations. Right to Hike was founded to honor Meredith Hope Emerson, who lost her life while hiking Blood Mountain in North Georgia on New Year’s Day 2008. The primary goals of RTH are to contribute to the things Meredith …
Rainfall Raises Lake Lanier
It’s hard to believe that a duck could live through all the blessed rainfall we had on Sunday, September 30, 2012 and Monday, October 1st. Lake Lanier’s water level rose by 1.33 feet between Monday morning, October 1st and Tuesday morning, October 2nd. The official rainfall …
Garbage In, Garbage Out of Lake Lanier
Shore Sweep is the one day each year that more garbage comes out of Lake Lanier than goes in. The Lake Lanier Association gathered 1,000 volunteer angels to comb the lake for all types of trash, flotsam, garbage, jetsam, junk, litter, refuse and unwanted material …
Lake Lanier’s Shore Sweep FAQ
Lake Lanier Association’s Executive Director Joanna Cloud helped lakelanier.com compile Frequently Asked Questions about Shore Sweep 2012. Joanna and her cadre of Lovers of Lake Lanier make the lake better for us all. If you can pitch in for an hour or two on Saturday morning, September …