I went out riding at the lake Sunday and took a few pictures with my phone. First stop was on a bridge to watch a few people go under the bridge, they are going slow, near the bridges are no wake zones.
Next was to a public beach area. They charge 6 dollars per car admission, bicycles free! too bad I didn't bring some swimming trunks.
boat docks are to the left of that fence, the life preservers are mandatory to have in the boat for every person in the boat, they have racks full of them like the orange one at the bottom, they take no excuses for not having them in the boat, it is a pretty sporty fine if you don't have them. Little kids also use them playing in the water and some of them tend to get strewn. There is a restroom with outside showers to rise off with, a volleyball pit and things for kids to play on, like monkey bars and such. The parking lot is behind the grey restroom building, it is a pretty big nice parking lot, once full they stop letting anyone else in at the guard house at the entrance. I think there are two or three public beaches like these at the lake and several more for camp grounds. You can only use the camp ground beaches if you are camping there...or go to them by boat.
The lake was built for water supply and recreation for the area, I think it was also built as an emergency water supply for this really cool cloud making machine maybe ten or so miles away.