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Grand Bay Wildlife Management Area as seen from the lookout tower, March 2019. Grand Bay is a 13,000-acre (53 km 2) swamp located in Lanier County and Lowndes County, Georgia. It consists of Grand Bay Wildlife Management Area, an educational wildlife area, and Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge, a recreational and educational lake.
Grand Bay Wetland Education Center: Lenox: Lowndes: Southeast: 8,700-acre Grand Bay Wetlands Management Area, operated by the Coastal Plains Regional Educational Service Agency and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources: Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center: Buford: Gwinnett: Metro Atlanta
Lake Lanier visitors take a dip on July 22, 2012. Weeks earlier, 11-year-old Kile Glover, Usher's former stepson, was fatally injured at the lake.
Upstream from Grand Lake is the Tar Creek Superfund site, an abandoned lead and zinc mining operation that left behind toxic heavy metals, pictured in 2008 near Picher.
It is part of the Valdosta, Georgia metropolitan statistical area. The population was 2,875 at the 2020 census. [5] Originally called Alapaha and then Milltown or Mill Town, Lakeland received its current name in 1925 in honor of its proximity to Grand Bay Lake, Lake Irma, and Banks Lake. [6] For many years, Lakeland owned and operated its own ...
In 2010, GRDA completed a new visitors' center adjacent to Pensacola Dam. The building was designed to be the home of GRDA Ecosystems Management offices, a state-of-the-art water research lab, offices for the Grand Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, a community auditorium and historical exhibits. [6]
The Twin Bridges Area at Grand Lake State Park, previously Twin Bridges State Park, is a park on the north side of the Grand Lake o' the Cherokees in northeastern Oklahoma. It was named for the two bridges that carry U.S. Highway 60 over arms of the lake that connect to the Neosho River and the Spring River. Twin Bridges State Park is known for ...
Lake Lanier Islands sits on a ground lease from the Lake Lanier Islands Development Authority, which was established by the Georgia General Assembly in 1962 to promote tourism development on the islands, and in turn leases the land from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. [32] [33]