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Tennessee
McKamy Lake
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Inside Cherokee National Forest
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McKamy Lake
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About this water
Visitors to Chilhowee Recreation Area are drawn to McKamy Lake for swimming, fishing picnicking, sunbathing and canoeing. The seven-acre lake was built in the late 1930s to early 1940s by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Chilhowee Lake Trail skirts the banks of the lake and connects to picnic, bathhouse and campground facilities.
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