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KERR LAKE TRIATHLON SWIMS, BIKES & RUNS THIS WEEKEND

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KERR LAKE TRIATHLON SWIMS, BIKES & RUNS THIS WEEKEND

If you are camping or boating near Bullocksville and Satterwhite Point this weekend, you may notice that the Kerr
Lake Triathlon will get underway from Bullocksville State Recreation Area Sunday morning.

Up to 350 swimmers, bikers and runners will compete in the Sunday event that brings participants from all over the country as it is a sanctioned event.

That also means that boat traffic will be watching and covering swimmers from Bullocksville to Satterwhite …

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Posted in: KLPW - Park Entertainment/Events, Uncategorized

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NEW FACILTIES & NEWLY RENOVATED FACILITIES HAPPENING AT KERR LAKE

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NEW FACILTIES & NEWLY RENOVATED FACILITIES HAPPENING AT KERR LAKE

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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Posted in: KLPW - Campground Facilities and Improvements

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STRAIGHT DIRTY TALK ABOUT KERR LAKE PARKS

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STRAIGHT DIRTY TALK ABOUT KERR LAKE PARKS

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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Posted in: KLPW - Campground Facilities and Improvements, KLPW - Similar Circumstances/Situations at other Locations

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A FEW CAMPERS GET CAMPSITE REPRIEVE FROM HIGH WATER AT KERR LAKE

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A FEW CAMPERS GET CAMPSITE REPRIEVE FROM HIGH WATER AT KERR LAKE

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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Posted in: KLPW - MAIN NEWS, KLPW - N C State Recreation Areas, KLPW - WATER RELATED

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HIGH WATER AT KERR DAMPENING 25% OF NC CAMPSITES FOR MEMORIAL WEEKEND

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HIGH WATER AT KERR DAMPENING 25% OF NC CAMPSITES FOR MEMORIAL WEEKEND

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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Posted in: KLPW - Boating and Related Improvements, KLPW - Campground Facilities and Improvements, KLPW - Camping Safety, KLPW - Corps of Engineers Campgrounds, KLPW - N C State Recreation Areas, KLPW - WATER RELATED, KLPW - Water Safety

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