Dam Site Shelter

Dam Site Park Shelter is directly below W. Kerr Scott Dam's visitor center, and features a beautiful view of the dam and reservoir. The shelter offers eight 8-foot picnic tables and two 10-foot ADA-accessible picnic tables, with electric hook-ups available. Along with scenic views, other park amenities include a boat ramp, horseshoe pit, grill, vault toilets, a museum and Environmental Education Center at the Visitor Assistance Center, and access to the Overmountain Victory Trail and Native Tree Trail. 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. Miles of multi-use trails surround the lake, including the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail, whose trailhead is a short walk from the shelter; an additional 25 miles are at the Warrior Creek and Dark Mountain areas. 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.