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Boat Tour of Reelfoot Lake -- CANCELLED
Registration is temporarily unavailable
Registration cancellations will be accepted until Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 12:00 AM
Attendees pay for their own charges
David Haggard has worked at Reelfoot Lake State park since 1986. He started as the naturalist assigned to Reelfoot Lake and in 2006 moved up to a regional naturalist position for west TN. He is an avid nature photographer and outdoorsman. David is from north Knoxville and has worked at parks and natural areas across the state.
Reelfoot Lake is a shallow natural lake located in the northwest portion of U.S. state of Tennessee, in Lake and Obion counties. Much of it is really more of a swamp, with bayou-like ditches (some natural, some man-made) connecting more open bodies of water called basins, the largest of which is called Blue Basin. Reelfoot Lake is noted for its bald cypress trees and its nesting pairs of bald eagles. Public use of the lake and grounds has been preserved since it was acquired by the state of Tennessee in the early 1900s and the area established as Reelfoot Lake State Park. Lake Isom, a similar, smaller lake to the immediate south, has been designated as a National Wildlife Refuge area. In 1966, Reelfoot Lake was designated as a National Natural Landmark by the National Park Service