Grenada Lake

Grenada Lake, which is situated in north-central Mississippi, was first built to help the Yazoo River Basin avert flooding. The Great Flood of 1927 prompted the construction of the lake. It was created as part of the wider Mississippi River Basin Flood Control Project's Grenada Lake Project.

Grenada Lake is presently popular and used by locals and visitors to Mississippi for outdoor leisure activities outside of its original flood mitigation functions. A renowned trophy crappie fishing, Grenada Lake yields catches of the species weighing up to three pounds! Grenada Lake also offers a variety of other fish species, such as largemouth bass, spotted bass, channel catfish, flathead catfish, blue catfish, bluegill, green sunfish, longear sunfish, redear sunfish, warmouth, and white bass, in addition to the excellent crappie fishing.

Hugh White State Park at Grenada Lake offers extra outdoor recreational activities and amenities and is ideally located halfway between Memphis, Tennessee, and Jackson, Mississippi. Horned larks, northern harriers, American kestrels, loggerhead shrikes, eastern bluebirds, eastern meadowlarks, different blackbirds, short-eared owls, vesper sparrows, Savannah sparrows, and field sparrows are among the common species seen when birdwatching at Grenada Lake and the state park. Hugh White State Park in Grenada Lake also offers camping, boating, canoeing, kayaking, biking, hiking, golf, disc golf, picnics, and swimming as additional facilities.

Location: Grenada / Yalobusha counties