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Fontana Village Resort & Marina
United States
Registrace 26. 03. 2013
Fontana Village Resort, a year round destination resort, is set amidst the pristine beauty of the Nantahala Forest of western North Carolina, gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The area's breathtaking mountain vistas and panoramic views from Fontana & Cheoah lakes provide memories to last a lifetime. Fontana Village offers comfortable accommodations for special interest groups. Bring your motorcycle club, square dance group, sports car club, youth group, mountain biking friends, fishing buddies, church clubs, family reunion, nature group, or hunt club. There is ample room for any size group. For the motorcycle enthusiast there is the renowned Tail of the Dragon on Hwy. 129, the challenging Moonshiner 28 that saddles up lakeside for twenty-two miles along Fontana Lake and the Cherohala Skyway, a fifty mile ridgeline dream ride. The Village has a wide range of accommodations, including rooms in the intimate settings of The Lodge, suites, cabins, as well as RV & tentca
FONTANA THANKSGIVING
A THANKSGIVING AT FONTANA VILLAGE RESORT WITH CLOGGING AND SQUARE DANCING. LEARN MORE ABOUT FONTANA VILLAGE AT www.fontanavillageresort.com
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OCTOBERFEST
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OCTOBER FEST WESTERN SQUARE DANCE FESTIVAL AT FONTANA VILLAGE RESORT. FONTANA IS A GREAT PLACE TO HOLD YOU NEXT SQUARE DANCE EVENT. LEARN MORE ABOUT FONTANA AT www.fontanavillageresort.com
CHEROHALA COLOR 3
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A road trip from Fontana Village Resort to the Cherohala Parkway. Use Fontana as your hub for the best fall scenery in the Smokies. Learn more about Fontana at www.fontanavillageresort.com
fontana remembered
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A slide show of old and new photographs showing construction of Fontana Dam and Fontana Village. Most of the older photographs are from TVA files. The slide show was prepared as a presentation during Fontana Fall Hiking Week by Photographer Bill Nichols. Learn more about fontana at www.fontanavillageresort.com
FALL HIKE WEEK 2013
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Fontana Fall Hiking Week 2013. Hiking on Hazel Creek in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park October 16, 2013. Group left from the Fontana Marina and returned to the Fontana Village Resort for a night of entertainment from the the Larry Barnett Band. See more about Fontana Village Resort at www.fontanavillageresort.com
Tar Heel Mini Motos on the Tail of the Dragon
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Mini Coopers on the Tail of the Dragon at Fontana Village Resort with stops in Robbinsville, Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, through Highlands on U.S. 64 to see the waterfalls. Visit www.fontanavillage.com for more information.
Fontana Dam Spill Closeup
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Fontana Dam Spill on beautiful Lake Fontana - A rare sight to see. Due to our heavy rainfall, the Tennessee Valley Authority has been releasing water to prevent flooding. This is an awesome wonder, and a favorite of visitors and locals alike! The beauty of nature that few are lucky to witness! www.fontanavillage.com
Fontana Dam Spill
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Fontana Dam Spilling - A beautiful sight to see, and a rare one. Due to our heavy rainfall, the TVA has been releasing water to prevent flooding. This is an awesome wonder, and a favorite of visitors and locals alike! The beauty of nature that few are lucky to witness! www.fontanavillage.com
Destination Weddings in the Great Smoky Mountains
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Plan a truly memorable wedding for you and your guests in the Great Smoky Mountains at Fontana Village on Lake Fontana near Bryson City, North Carolina. Visit www.fontanavillage.com/groups/weddings/
Fontana Dam Water Release
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After several days of rain last January (2013), the river managers are trying to create more storage room in Fontana Lake in case of further flooding. About 7,400 cubic feet per second and another 9,500 cubic feet per second through the power generating turbines is being released at Fontana Dam in Western North Carolina.
Why was the lodge pool filled in!? I was there in May and that was sad to see.
My first time to Fontana was in 75 or 76 I was 10 or 11 I’ve been back several times as an adult
I took my girls there in 2004, stayed in one of the cabins and had a great time. I think it was 4th of July week and my oldest daughter won the watermelon eating contest. We swam in the old pool. I remember the water pipe rails and the old bathhouse. It was like stepping back 50 years. I loved that my girls experienced a little of the way it was. I was also impressed with the low cost of archery and mini golf. If I understood the video, the old pool is gone. That was part of the charm. Some years after that, I was flying an Army Huey Helicopter out of Knoxville southbound and looked down to see the dam and village. I live on the west coast now and want to take my wife there soon.
I caught my first Rainbow Trout in Summer 1961 at the dam's lake using my late father's fishing gear. We vacationed at Fontana Village twice, but our 1961 visit was a "family reunion" with a large group of us from Florida and Ohio, meeting half-way in North Carolina for our get-together. We "kids" performed during a family "talent show" at the large hall which also included places to make crafts for both kids and adults. We also enjoyed swimming in the large swimming pool !! The 1940-vintage cottages were rather spartan (I remember many ants in the kitchen running around the cupboards). Otherwise, it was a bargain for a group during the late 1950's and early 1960's for a family get-together. It wasn't as fancy as staying at a "Holiday Inn motel," but the area was beautiful to visit in the mountains. We also hired the horses to ride and took a tour through the area for about an hour to 90 minutes (riding western style). Also we remember seeing the big black bears who would "raid" the garbage cans any time (day or night) in the area where our cottage/cabin was located. I doubt whether today's "cabins" are quite as "primitive" as they were when we visited during the late 1950's/early 1960's (because the cabins we stayed in were the original cabins built for the workers' families when the dam was built in 1942).
OMGoodnesss!! My Dad took my family (from Niles, Mich) up to Fontana Village in 1964 for the vacation of our lives!. I remember they taught us how to square dance in the afternoon and then just turned us loose in the evening to dance with all the wonderful locals. I remember the Buck Dance that happened after dinner every night to get us all tuned up...there was a very talented youngster named Bob Sloan and the Fontana Ramblers that we looked forward to for the dancing. During the days they taught us arts and crafts...my Mom made a large serving platter out of metal that she etched with acid...it was used by my family to serve veggies for decades to come...Can I still rent a cabin for a week up there??...my family is in sorrowful repair and in need of some good old Mountain Music and Love...??.
Bob Sloan is my uncle!
The beauty of nature was the river they destroyed.
I spent 3 weeks there every summer from 1967-1987.Mr. Dyer at the Dam, the Nichols art studio, the post mistress, Tex. Thank you for this trip down memory lane.
This wonderful presentation brings back so many great memories! I was born in the hospital there during construction of the dam and lived nearby most of my life until I graduated from college. I worked as playground supervisor for two summers and in the drugstore, mostly as a soda jerk, for the two following summers while a college student. I even babysat a couple of times for my cousin Bill Nichols who produced this show!
All these before pictures are great since I have only known Fontana since the 70's. It is still a magnificent place to be and live.
I appreciated this very much. As a child growing up in Fontana Village in the 1960s I thought all life would be like heaven. The images brought tears to my eyes. Very well done. Thanks, Bill. You and Marie and your wonderful family were just a hundred or so feet Woods Road opposite the Beasley's...well, before the "new" Lodge was built. --"Billy" Sloan
Hi Uncle Bill!
Thanks for the memories. Grew up there in the 70's
Check out this video that was made by Octoberfest! This dance group stays with us every year! If you have a dance group and you would like to come dance it up here at Fontana give us a call today 828-498-2154 OCTOBERFEST