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Kerr Lake State Recreation Area is a North Carolina state park in Vance and Warren counties, North Carolina, in the United States.Located north of Henderson near the North Carolina-Virginia border, it includes 3,376 acres (13.66 km 2) [1] of woodlands along the shores of the 50,000-acre (202 km 2) man-made Kerr Lake.
The John H. Kerr Reservoir (often called Kerr Lake in North Carolina and Bugg's Island Lake in Virginia) [1] is a reservoir along the border of the U.S. states of North Carolina and Virginia. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed the John H. Kerr Dam across the Roanoke River between 1947 and 1952 to produce hydroelectricity as well as ...
Jones Lake State Park: Coastal Plain Bladen [2] 1,669 acres (6.75 km 2) [5] 1939 [2] Open The park surrounds Jones State Lake and Salters State Lake, both of which are largely undeveloped Carolina Bay lakes. Until 1965, it was one of two parks open to Black people. Lake James State Park: Mountains McDowell, Burke [2] 3,743 acres (15.15 km 2) [5 ...
John H. Kerr Dam is concrete gravity-dam located on the Roanoke River in Virginia, creating Kerr Lake. The dam was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1947 and 1953 for the purposes of flood control, and hydropower. The dam also serves wildlife resources, forest conservation, and public recreational uses.
Popular with tourists from the Chicago area, the resort town of Lake Geneva in southern Wisconsin is the state's warmest city. It averages an annual high of 59 degrees. Sandra Lund/istockphoto
Occoneechee State Park is a state park near Clarksville, Virginia, located along Buggs Island Lake.Occoneechee State Park is 2,698 acres in size. Its name reflects the Occaneechi Indians, who lived on (and traded from) an island in the Roanoke River near its confluence with the Dan River, which was flooded by the creation of the Kerr Lake reservoir in 1952.
The park was named after Oklahoma's first native-born governor. An original bronze bust in the park was reported missing in 1978 and never recovered.
Linville Gorge Wilderness. The protected areas of North Carolina cover roughly 3.8 million acres, making up 11% of the total land in the state. [1] 86.5% of this protected land is publicly owned and is managed by different federal and state level authorities and receive varying levels of protection. [1]