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Watauga Lake is
a wonderful place for a second home and the
ideal place for a first
home. The lake is a favorite
four-season
location for empty-nesters and retirees from all
over.
Watauga Lake is 16 miles long, and has a shoreline
of 109 miles.
Watauga
Lake’s idyllic lifestyle includes limitless
outdoor activities or a more leisurely lifestyle
in a setting of breathtaking scenery.
Recreation opportunities abound. The area’s
four marinas can accommodate all your aquatic
needs – fishing boats, ski boats, sailing,
pontoons, and ski equipment. |
For the
fishermen, Watauga Lake boasts thirteen species
of game fish including rainbow and brown trout,
walleye and smallmouth and largemouth bass.
Campers and nature enthusiasts will find numerous
campgrounds, picnic areas and wildlife preserves in
the Cherokee National Forest and Pond Mountain
Wilderness Preserve. Hikers can choose from a
wide range of trails of varying degrees of
difficulty: Appalachian Trail, Backbone Rock,
Iron Mountain Trail, or the Virginia Creeper Trail.
Surrounded by the
Cherokee National Forest and
flanked by the Appalachian Mountains, Watauga Lake
is the most beautiful and scenic as well as the
highest lake (2000 feet above sea level) in the
entire TVA system. With 80% of the 16 mile long
lake owned by the United States Forest Service,
Watauga Lake is the third cleanest lake in America.
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