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Hermit Cover · 05-15-2006, 04:37 PM

Smith Mountain Lake is very nice and very popular....though somewhat difficult to get to homesites....drive off county roads down long shared driveways and then way back out to the country roads to get back down to the lake to get to homes relatively close to the other drive. Lake Gaston is also a similar lake on the Virginia - North Carolina border. Both lakes are reservoirs created by dams on what was once rural farmland. Heavy rains will tend to muddy the waters. Very hard to find a lake like our Winni....even with the shorter season for boating....very close to paradise.

05-15-2006, 04:37 PM	#11
Hermit Cover Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Hermit Cove Posts: 354 Thanks: 20 Thanked 68 Times in 40 Posts	Virginia, Carolina lakes Smith Mountain Lake is very nice and very popular....though somewhat difficult to get to homesites....drive off county roads down long shared driveways and then way back out to the country roads to get back down to the lake to get to homes relatively close to the other drive. Lake Gaston is also a similar lake on the Virginia - North Carolina border. Both lakes are reservoirs created by dams on what was once rural farmland. Heavy rains will tend to muddy the waters. Very hard to find a lake like our Winni....even with the shorter season for boating....very close to paradise.