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The Dale Hollow Reservoir is a reservoir situated on the Kentucky/Tennessee border. The lake is formed by the damming of the Obey River, 7.3 miles (11.7 km) above its juncture with the Cumberland River at river mile 380. Portions of the lake also cover the Wolf River.
Dale Hollow Lake State Resort Park is a Kentucky state park located on the Frogue Peninsula on the northern shore of Dale Hollow Reservoir in Clinton and Cumberland counties. [2] The park comprises 3,400 acres (1,400 ha).
The western terminus of SR 325 is located on the eastern shores of Dale Hollow Lake, at the Star Point Resort in western Pickett County.SR 325 then passes through Cordell Hull Birthplace State Park before running concurrently with SR 111 into downtown Byrdstown.
Dale Hollow Dam, which creates the vast Dale Hollow Lake, lies along the Obey River just east of Celina. Tennessee State Route 52 passes through the city, connecting it with Red Boiling Springs and Lafayette to the west and Livingston to the southeast.
The city of Byrdstown and the Kentucky town of Albany, 11 miles (18 km) to the northeast, are positioned between two Army Corps of Engineers lakes: Dale Hollow Lake, mainly in Tennessee, and Lake Cumberland, in Kentucky. The area is known as "Twin Lakes" and Byrdstown is noted as "The Gateway To Dale Hollow Lake".
In the aftermath of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Congress authorized the use of War Department funds to build dams at Center Hill and Dale Hollow that would generate the power required to support defense industry in the Southeastern United States. In early 1942, the Corps opened bidding to private contractors.
The Wolf River is a 40.3-mile-long (64.9 km) [2] river in the U.S. states of Tennessee and Kentucky [3] that rises at the base of the Cumberland Plateau in Fentress County, Tennessee and flows westward for several miles before becoming part of Dale Hollow Lake.
SR 294's northern terminus is located outside of the parking lot of the Willow Grove Resort, a lodging establishment along the shores of Dale Hollow Lake. This is located in the one area of dry land in Clay County that can only be accessed from Overton County. [2]