About Lake Guntersville

Guntersville Lake, Alabama's largest lake covering 69,100 acres, is located in the northeast part of the state and only 75 miles from Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Nestled in the Appalachian foothills, Guntersville Lake has been nationally recognized for its beauty and overall enjoyment.

Known for its fine sport fishing and beautiful scenery, Guntersville Lake offers many choices when it comes to an outdoor vacation in Alabama. Annual events at Guntersville Lake include fishing tournaments, boating races, a songwriter's festival, and triathlons with many other activities as well.

With over 950 miles of shoreline and a wide array of accommodations, Guntersville Lake serves as the perfect location for taking a vacation, building a home, and even retiring. The town of Guntersville was even chosen as one of the top 100 best places to live in the United States by Relocate America.

Guntersville Lake is nationally renowned for its bass fishing, with the town being named by Field &Stream in 2008 as one of the top 10 fishing towns in America.

Being Alabama's largest lake, it offers plenty of room to enjoy boating, skiing, swimming, and many other water-related activities. Also, with the Appalachian foothills at your backdoor, visitors can hike, camp, bike, golf, and simply enjoy the outdoors.

Nearby, there is the Lake Guntersville State Park which covers 6,000 acres of forest and is home to many different types of wildlife including deer, various migrating birds, and bald eagles. Also, only fifteen minutes north of Guntersville Lake is the Cathedral Caverns State Park where you can see the world's largest cavern entrance and stalagmite collection.

This reservoir was created by the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1939 and was named after John Gunter who established the town of Guntersville soon after the American Revolution.

With so much to offer, Guntersville Lake remains a popular waterfront vacation spot. Visitors have plenty of lakefront rental property to choose from for a short vacation, but many of these visitors are choosing to stay and continue to purchase much of the Guntersville Lake real estate for future home sites. The beauty of Guntersville Lake will continue to draw homeowners to this special Alabama retreat for years to come.

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