Boone Lake

Northeastern Tennessee's Sullivan and Washington counties contain the reservoir known as Boone Lake, which was created by holding back the South Fork Holston River and Watauga River behind Boone Dam. The Tennessee Valley Authority is in charge of maintaining and running the dam and reservoir (TVA). The lake has a surface size of around 18 km2 and a 93,534,000 m3 flood storage capacity. Over the course of a year, the reservoir's water levels can vary by up to 6 meters.

Boone Lake may be one of the state's lesser lakes, but the lakefront real estate there carries a southern punch: a 2020 research found that the average cost of shorefront property was a swanky $1.37 million. Boone Lake is now ranked as the sixteenth most expensive lake in terms of lakefront property in the country. The lake's accessibility, beauty, and shoreline were significantly diminished at the time of the study because the dam restoration was still in progress.

Among the lake's recreational amenities are a swimming area and a boat ramp. Fishing and water skiing are popular lakeside pastimes. Sport fishermen are drawn to the lake's brown trout, lake trout, rainbow trout, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, and striped bass fish species. Due to PCB and chlordane concentrations, there are precautionary fish consumption advisories for catfish and carp.

Location: Washington County, Rhode Island