The new Boone Reservoir Day Use Area officially opened on May 21, 2016. It features a white sand beach and swim area along with a new boat ramp, walking trails, a pavilion, picnic tables with grills, fishing pier, a volleyball court and restrooms.

Gray Quarry is a 501-c3 non-profit organization that seeks to promote the sport of scuba diving by providing a safe family-friendly fun environment for recreational scuba diving and training. All money from dive entry fees goes to maintaining the quarry and making dive site improvements.

The Sandbar Site is a local favorite for boaters. It’s a large area in the lake that is very shallow, coming within 3 ft. of the surface. Many boats will raft together for a day of partying on the lake.

Here you will find a Submerged 2006 Nissan 4 door pickup in 23’ of water. The truck is stuck in silt up to the wheel wells. A great dive but can be murky due to all the silt in the cove.

This dive site contains several items to dive on including two training platforms, a basketball hoop, a jet ski, a sailboat, several satellite dishes, and other objects all linked together via ropes leading to and from the docks at the dive center.

22’ Sailboat on a long protruding point close to Oxford Dam on the Alexander County side of Lake Hickory. Vessel is sitting upright with the bow facing south.

This is a PDRA Quarry. It is membership owned and its deepest point the depth is around 96 ft. Surface temps range from 82 F in the summer to 40 F in the winter.

Norris Lake, also known as Norris Reservoir, is a reservoir that is located in Tennessee, United States. The lake was created by the Norris Dam at the Cove Creek Site on the Clinch River in 1936 by the Tennessee Valley Authority for flood control, water storage, and hydroelectric power. Typically low-vis diving.

American Quarry is the flagship quarry for the PDRA. (Piedmont Diving Rescue Association). The Quarry is 65’ deep at the pit with many objects to dive on.

Lake Jocassee is a man-made lake. The lake is over 360 feet deep with visibility ranging from 20 feet to over 50 feet at depth. There are several ramps here, one is set aside for divers and there is enough to keep divers coming back again and again.