Keowee Park Shelter

Keowee Park Shelter sits within Keowee Park at W. Kerr Scott Dam and Reservoir in northwestern North Carolina. The shelter offers six 8-foot picnic tables. Water and electricity are not available at the shelter, so plan accordingly. Along with scenic views, other park amenities include a boat ramp, playground, horseshoe pit, grill, vault toilets, and three fishing piers, one of them ADA accessible. 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. Roughly 30 miles of multi-purpose trails surround the lake, including the Warrior Creek trails, easily accessible from the shelter; all of them, Warrior Creek included, are now recognized as some of the best mountain biking trails in the country, attracting riders from all corners of the world. 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.