Editors' picks across 8categories — the dock with the deepest channel, the winery with the view, the restaurant with the right wine list, the trail nobody's on at sunrise.
A fresh American and seafood restaurant on Belmont Road with waterfront dining and boat access — note the low bridge en route if arriving by water. Late hours Thursday through Saturday.
Visit ↗A taphouse at Lake Anna Plaza, near the Route 208 bridge — a former real estate office converted into the plaza's beer-and-pub-fare anchor.
Visit ↗A full-service marina on Boggs Drive in Bumpass — slips, fuel, and boat sales serving the lake's southern end.
A marina on Anna Point Lane in Mineral, offering slips and marine services.
Visit ↗Louisa County's only public-access marina and beach, at the lake's south end — pontoon and tritoon rentals, boat sales, daily beach passes, and two event venues.
Visit ↗A state park on Lawyers Road in Spotsylvania County with a guarded swimming beach, an accessible fishing pond, and a boat ramp — one of the lake's two public beach access points, alongside Pleasants Landing.
Visit ↗A working Dominion Energy nuclear plant whose need for cooling water is the reason Lake Anna exists — built in the 1960s and '70s, with two reactor units online since 1978 and 1980, each producing about 945 megawatts. The lake's warm-water 'hot side,' fed by the plant's discharge canal, stays swimmable well into the off-season.
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