Dear Friend,

    Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia, U.S.A. is a deep blue, fresh water lake with over a half-a-thousand miles of shoreline!!  Nestled in the heartland of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains as Smith Mountain offers admirers one of the most beautiful, yet unique settings of one of the largest cleanest bodies of water found anywhere in the world! The lake holds the official Virginia State Record for the largest fish ever caught at fifty-three pounds, seven ounces! Water temperature easily reaches the mid to upper eighties by mid to early June, lower eighties early as mid to late May.

    Nearly every conceivable water sport has become the great past time here at the lake. Visit our FUN page and see for yourself!!  Not to mention the lake is home to over a half a dozen golf courses, numerous marinas, countless resort communities and is the home of the fifty-pound striper!! The lake is man made and was finally at full pond in the late summer of 1966. Since then all walks of life started moving in. From book writers to Hollywood celebrities to your down home everyday friendly neighbor that abounds here. "What About Bob" was filmed here on the lake! "The Twilight Zone" filmed a special episode here as well. There is a special well kept airport lakeside offers small private jets and prop planes an easy way in and out! You just never know who is flying in too see this truly awesome lake!!

     You truly will find that the region over all offers far more than this website could ever reveal! Great shops, tasty restaurants, amusements, live entertainment, fish that will run away with your pole! Not to mention everyone here is very friendly.

"A gentle life style for those who choose to embrace it."
 "Excitement for those who choose to chase it!" JBR

 
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This shot was taken on a very cold frosty morning, October 2001.
Note the light ice on all the trees.