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Lake Guntersville State Park is a public recreation area located on the far north side of the city of Guntersville in Marshall County, Alabama. The state park occupies 5,909 acres (2,391 ha) on the eastern shore of Guntersville Lake , a 69,000-acre (28,000 ha) impoundment of the Tennessee River .
The lake stretches 75 miles (121 km) from Guntersville Dam to Nickajack Dam. It is Alabama's largest lake at 69,100 acres (279.6 km 2). [1] It is separated by the Guntersville Dam from Wheeler Lake, which is 68,300 acres (276.4 km 2) and the second largest lake. Both lakes are part of the Tennessee River.
Joe Wheeler State Park is a public recreation area with resort features located on Wheeler Lake, an impoundment of the Tennessee River, 18 miles (29 km) east of Florence in northwest Alabama. [3] The state park contains 2,550 acres (1,030 ha) of land in three separate parcels and adjoins Wheeler Dam .
Buck's Pocket State Park is a public recreation area located on Sand Mountain in the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Alabama, two miles (3.2 km) north of the community of Grove Oak. The state park occupies 2,000 acres (810 ha) surrounding a natural pocket (canyon) of the Appalachian Mountain chain along South Sauty Creek, an upstream ...
River / lake Image Remarks acres ha Blue Springs State Park: Barbour: 103 42: 1963: Blue Springs: Near Clio; swimming in natural spring, camping, picnicking Buck's Pocket State Park: DeKalb, Jackson, Marshall: 2,000 810: 1971: Lake Guntersville: Near Grove Oak; scenic vistas, camping, hiking and equestrian trails Cathedral Caverns State Park ...
It is Alabama's second largest lake at 68,300 acres (276 km 2), and only a few hundred acres smaller than the largest lake in Alabama, Guntersville Lake, which is 69,100 acres (280 km 2) and is separated by the Guntersville dam from the lake. Decatur operates the busiest port along the Tennessee River on this lake, Port of Decatur.
The area given is the normal or average area of the lake. The area of some lakes fluctuates substantially. For those lakes partially in Canada or Mexico the area given for the lake is the total area, not just the part of the lake in the United States. Of the top 100 lakes, 55 are man-made and 45 are natural.
Sauta Cave National Wildlife Refuge is a 264-acre (107 ha) [1] National Wildlife Refuge located in northeastern Alabama, near the Sauty Creek embayment of Guntersville Lake. More than 5,000 visitors per year visit the refuge. The facility is unstaffed, but is administered by the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge in Decatur, Alabama. The cave ...