Kerr Lake Park Watch

“When it comes to government kicking at the people and to the people, add one more insult to injury; that’s right the feds are going to close
Kerr Lake parks right here as leaf season comes into play,” says Kerr Lake Park Watch PA Lead Frank Timberlake.  Kerr Lake facilities owned and operated by the US Army Corps of Engineers
will be closed beginning on Thursday.  Timberlake added, “That means if you are planning to picnic, jog, …

Several months ago KLPW informed you when NC State Parks officials toured some of the Kerr
Lake State Recreation Areas and vowed to make some very badly needed upgrades and rehabs to sites.

State officials viewed, photographed and even measured the sites that KLPW identified as critical. Also, sites that might increase revenue for the parks if properly
renovated with defined sites, more level and convenient to large travel trailers and RV rigs.
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The schedule for Kerr Lake State Recreation Areas (7) has been updated and released by the
superintendent over those North Carolina parks.

” We start scaling back after
Labor Day when staffing scales back,” according to Bryce Fleming, the Kerr Lake State Recreation Area Superintendent. “All parks that are closed over the winter are scheduled …

CHAOS Returns with
Staunton River Star Party Oct. 1 – 6

by Pat Eastwood, PR/Marketing Specialist, VA State Parks

The Chapel Hill Astronomical and Observational Society (CHAOS) returns to host the fifth Staunton River Star Party Oct. 1-6, with a public viewing night scheduled for Saturday, October 5. Staunton
River State Park is located in one …

At the peak of summer, a lot of empty spaces, more commonly called boat slips, remain empty at the Occoneechee State Park Marina on Kerr Lake at Clarksville.  Having viewed the marina about a month ago, KLPW found that most of the boats at the docks seem to be longer term rentals as most showed up again in … Read more