Boomer Park Shelter

Boomer Park Shelter is in Boomer Park at W. Kerr Scott Dam and Reservoir in northwestern North Carolina. This lakefront shelter offers six 7-foot picnic tables. A water spigot can be found at the shelter, but there is no electricity available. Other park amenities include a playground, grill, accessible vault toilets, swim beach and a boat ramp. The 1,475-acre reservoir offers excellent boating, canoeing, kayaking and swimming. Anglers will find channel catfish, large and smallmouth bass, bluegill, threadfin shad, spotted bass, striped bass and hybrid striped bass. The gentle Yadkin River flows through its scenic namesake valley in the foothills of the eastern Blue Ridge Mountains, where forests of mixed hardwoods including sycamore, poplar, oak and hickory cover the region. Wildlife is abundant in the valley: white-tailed deer, black bear and eastern cottontails among the hills, and wild turkey, woodpeckers, Carolina chickadees, red-eyed vireo, ovenbirds, mallards and wood ducks in the air.