Great Dam
mcdude - great pic of the upper dam. It brought back some great memories. I cant begin to count the hours I spent as a kid fishing both the front and back sides of that dam. GREAT memories. Do you have any other pics by any chance?
Diver1111 - the dam you thought was the upper dam (next to the Wright Museum) is not the upper dam. i guess you might call that one the lower dam. The upper dam is up stream from there. I'm not sure if there is public access by land to it. We used to rent a cottage every summer that was right near it, and had to cut across the the neighbor's yard to reach it.
If you ever have your boat in Crescent lake (it sounds like you do) you can motor right up to it though. From Mast Landing, instead of immediately heading left up the Smith River to the Smith River/Whitten Neck Road bridge, head straight/right down a stretch into a cove off to the right. The dam is at the end of the cove. In the accompanying image, the three red circles indicated (from top to bottom) the Smith River/Whitten Neck Road bridge, Mast Landing, Upper Dam. As you approach the dam head on, it stays deep, but to both the right and left of the dam itself it gets quite shallow (3-4 feet right down to a foot or so).
Good luck!
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