Clarks Hill Lake Will Be Busy On Memorial Day Weekend

Clarks Hill Lake—Sandra and Dean McDaniel are not exactly roughing it this Memorial Day weekend, but they are spending the holiday camping at Clarks Hill Lake.

The couple is from Trenton, South Carolina and decided to spend Memorial Day closer to home.

“We’re going to stay until Monday; we plan on having family up Friday, and cookout some spaghetti and just have everybody over,” said Sandra.

And the McDaniels may feel like they’re everybody is camping at Clarks Hill Lake this weekend the campgrounds are full.

And unlike past years so is the lake.

“I tell people don’t ask me how low the lake is ask me how high it is today we’re at three twenty six point five, that’s three and a half feet below normal the bottom we saw last September was around three fourteen,” said Park Ranger Jay Weidman.

Dean McDaniel plans to do a little fishing this Memorial Day weekend, he likes the look of the lake this year.

“It isn’t as far to walk to the water now I mean last year we had to walk pretty far and you couldn’t see it and now it’s a whole lot better,” he said.

Things are a lot better at the lake this Memorial Day weekend compared to past years.

A day on the lake has gotten a lot less expensive as gas prices have dropped, about a dollar and a half a gallon, and there’s a lot more lake for boaters to enjoy.

“I can’t believe the water level has risen so much I guess all the rain it’s made a big difference,“ said Steve Griner, a boater from Sylvania, Georgia.

He expects he’ll see more boats on the lake this summer.

“They’ll come back and the gas prices are really going to help,” said Griner.