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Table Rock State Park is a public recreation area in the U.S. state of Missouri consisting of 356 acres (144 ha) located in Taney County and Stone County on Table Rock Lake along the southern side of the city of Branson. The state park's facilities include a marina, campgrounds, and trails for hiking and bicycling. [4]
Across the street from the lake is the main Rock Dam camping ground. Various homes and cabins are often available for rent year round. Summer activities include camping, swimming, water skiing, jet skiing, and off-road vehicle trails (four-wheelers, dirt bikes). Winter activities include ice fishing and snowmobiling.
The weather rock or weather stone is a humorous display that pokes fun at the intricate technology used in modern weather forecasts, as well as the fact that their accuracy is less than perfect. A rock is typically hung from a tripod and accompanied by a sign indicating how to read it. [ 1 ]
The 252 foot tall Table Rock Dam first began power generation in of June 1959. The dam contains more than 1.2 million cubic yards of concrete and is 6,432 feet long including its two earth ...
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Table Rock Lake is an artificial lake or reservoir in the Ozarks of southwestern Missouri and northwestern Arkansas in the United States. Designed, built and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the lake is impounded by Table Rock Dam, which was constructed from 1954 to 1958 on the White River creating the lake.
The completion of Table Rock Dam in 1958 changed the source of water to Taneycomo from that of the White River's flowing waters to the bottom tailwater of Table Rock Lake from the dam spillway and made it into a cold water lake. The clear cold waters from the deep tailwaters of Table Rock Lake pour out of the dam into Lake Taneycomo. [5]
Near the dam site, there is also a campground maintained by the Bureau of Land Management that showcases a number of prehistoric petroglyphs, indicating human involvement in the region long predating Western influence. [2] It is from the Painted Rock Petroglyph Site that the area and the dam get their names.