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Smith Mountain Lake State Park is a 1,148-acre (4.65 km 2) state park along the shores of Smith Mountain Lake in Bedford County, Virginia near Huddleston.Primarily a recreational area, it offers water-related activities (with a swimming area, occasional boat tours as well as rental boats, kayaks and tubes) as well as camping, picnicking, and hiking facilities. [1]
Smith Mountain Lake is a large reservoir in the Roanoke Region of Virginia, [3] United States, located southeast of the City of Roanoke and southwest of Lynchburg. The lake was created in 1963 by the Smith Mountain Dam impounding the Roanoke River .
The Smith Mountain Lake Airport (FAA W91) is a privately owned airport open to the public located 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Moneta, in Bedford County, Virginia, USA. The facility serves primarily general aviation for the areas around Smith Mountain Lake. In November 2013, longtime airport owner Joe Borgess sold the airport to a New Jersey ...
Smith Mountain Dam is a concrete arch dam located on the Roanoke River in Virginia, creating Smith Mountain Lake. The dam was built by Appalachian Power (a division of American Electric Power ) between 1960 and 1963 for the purposes of pumped-storage hydroelectricity .
Boat traffic on the lake remains low relative to nearby Smith Mountain Lake, Kerr Lake and Lake Gaston. Leesville Lake is becoming a popular recreational area. Fishing is very popular, especially for striped bass. The 53-pound-7-ounce (24.2 kg) state record striped bass was caught out of Leesville Lake in 2000. [1]
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This is a list of airports in Virginia (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Smith Mountain Cooperative Wildlife Management Area is a 4,996-acre (20.22 km 2) Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Bedford and Pittsylvania counties, Virginia.Located on the shores of Smith Mountain Lake, the WMA is owned by Appalachian Power and cooperatively managed by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and the Virginia Outdoors Foundation through a conservation easement ...