Welcome to beautiful Smith Mountain Lake! If you haven't been here before you're in for a pleasant surprise. With over 500 miles of delightful shoreline, and even more miles of mountain skyline (in every direction), you'll soon be falling in love with the crowning jewel of the Blue Ridge Mountains! It's gorgeous!

   We have friendly people, low taxes, stunning scenery, perfect seasons and a pastoral small town setting. Yet it's mere minutes to all your day to day necessities and a short drive to most anywhere on the entire East Coast.   

   As for the personality of the place, the overall feel is always casual, which makes sense when you consider the multitude of vacation and retirement homes here. Even work attire is usually blue jeans. In short, Smith Mountain Lake is a fun place where everybody still says hello to each other. Come say hello yourself. You'll love this place!

   For the locals, please note: If you'd like to have your business listed, let me know. There's no charge whatsoever. I'm also open to any suggestions to improve this site, just let me know, I can probably do it.
 

   Note to visitors using "dial up" Internet: There are a number of lake area video clips scattered thru-out this site and you can also see most of them in one place under the "video album" link. But the very nature of a video makes the file size quite large, so you may have trouble viewing them. Having noted this, fast connections can click here for a very pretty video of the lake! Or you can click here for a truly fabulous clip of last year's July 4th fireworks on the water celebration.

   Thanks for visiting my site and please do explore it. I've been told many times that this is one of the best Smith Mountain Lake sites on the internet! Links to all the various pages are at the top of this one and please feel free to contact me if I can be of service in any way!   

                                    Sincerely,
                                    Dave Gresham