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 pizza-and-grill restaurant inside Port of Kimberling, accessible by land or water — a seasonal operation, opening for the year in mid-May.
Visit ↗Missouri's first "Clean Marina"-designated facility, home to 650 boats — rentals of slide boats, wake boats, ski boats, pontoons, and bass boats.
Visit ↗A full-service marina on Indian Point Road — tri-toons, pontoons, deck boats, ski boats, and WaveRunners, plus a tackle store stocking live bait, groceries, and camping supplies.
Visit ↗The largest full-service marina on the lake's west arm — an all-inclusive complex with ski boats, pontoons, and houseboat rentals.
Visit ↗The Army Corps of Engineers dam that created the lake, built 1954-1958 on the White River — the third of three multi-purpose, high-head Corps dams on the river after Norfork and Bull Shoals, eight miles southwest of Branson.
Visit ↗A Missouri state park on the lake's shore near the dam — no designated swimming beach, but shoreline swimming and a free concrete boat ramp near the picnic shelter.
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