Nashville's closest boating lake, ten miles from downtown.
J. Percy Priest Lake is an Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Stones River, ten miles east of downtown Nashville — the closest genuine boating lake to the city, with marinas along Bell Road and out toward Smyrna and Antioch.
J. Percy Priest Lake sits on the Stones River ten miles east of downtown Nashville, built by the Army Corps of Engineers between 1963 and 1967 for flood control, with a 28-megawatt hydroelectric plant at the dam. Elm Hill Marina and Nashville Shores Marina cluster along Bell Road, the closest access to the city; Fate Sanders Marina near Smyrna and Four Corners Resort and Marina in Antioch extend the lake's reach south and east. Papa Turney's BBQ and Shipwreck Cove anchor the dining scene, both right on the water. It reads as Nashville's day-trip lake — closer and busier than a destination reservoir.
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