This reservoir is Virginia’s largest lake and a huge draw for visitors to Occoneechee State Park. It’s open to boating, skiing, fishing and swimming, according to the Virginia Tourism Corporation.

More than half of the world’s largest lakes shrank over the last three decades ... hydrologist Fangfang Yao of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Using satellite observations ...

Over half of the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs now hold less ... a climate researcher at the University of Virginia, told Live Science. Related: Hoover Dam reservoir reaches record ...

Virginia has cut the ribbon on ... than $440,000 in regional trail grants. Silver Lake is both a fishing spot and the site of the world’s largest floating loon, a decades-old fiberglass ...

Bison grazing on the shore of the Great Salt Lake. With hundreds of thousands of lakes spread across the United States, most of us aren’t too far from a body of water perfect for fishing ...

More than 50 percent of the largest lakes in the world are losing water ... now a climate fellow at University of Virginia, said the news is not entirely bleak. With this new method of tracking ...