As Kerr Lake Park Watch is focusing on sharing and showing improvements and new construction on any and all public properties around the shores of Kerr Lake, a new project on the eastern bank of the North Carolina side of Kerr Lake is nearing completion. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission is building a new two-lane boat … Read more

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While a few more sites are being rehabilitated on the NC side of Kerr Lake, some huge renovations are taking place
on the Virginia side. A new marina operator is gearing up on the NC side and a new marina is being built on the Virginia side of Kerr Lake.

As shown in the picture below, the Turner Family is camping in a newly renovated electric and water site that’s part of the 600 sites operated in the …

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STRAIGHT DIRTY TALK ABOUT KERR LAKE PARKS

02 Jun 2014
Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch

It’s not really polite, but let’s have a little plain toilet talk. Forget
the problems of government, forget bureaucracies that move at a snail’s pace, there comes a time when human decency, that means that we as a people act more like people than animals, must come
back to the forefront of the way we as people behave.

I, being Frank Timberlake, the head blogger here at Kerr Lake Park …

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As the busiest weekend of the year at Kerr Lake moves forward in the sunshine, the rain remnants of flooded campsites remind us that nearly
25 percent of the campers at the seven NC State Recreation Areas on the North Carolina side are not getting their Memorial Day holiday at Kerr Lake.

WRAL’s Tara Lynn updates the situation:  http://www.wral.com/rising-waters-cause-flooding-at-kerr-lake-campsites/13672992/

The lake’s level is still near 305 feet above sea level.

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NORTH CAROLINA SIDE OF KERR LAKE HIT HARDEST
WITH HIGH WATER CAMPSITE CLOSURES FOR MEMORIAL WEEKEND – Spawning Striped Bass in Roanoke River Get Nod/Blame for Slow Release

The 306’ water level at Kerr Lake is anticipated to lower to only about 305-feet above sea level
for this weekend, the Memorial Day holiday. In a testy, if not often heated meeting yesterday, the US Army Corps of Engineers took repeated questions …

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