My most recent state park visit was to Smith Mountain Lake State Park at the beginning of December. My husband and I got married on December 5, 2009 and spent our honeymoon at Smith Mountain Lake. With that time being the park's off season we were quite possibly the only visitors, which was really nice. Although this was not our first visit to this park, we were excited to get to our waterfront cabin. The first night there we had sleet that must have followed us from Mechanicsville, VA since it did snow and rain on our wedding day.
We spent most of our time in front of the wood stove watching Christmas movies. The other part of the time was spent wondering why our good old GPS kept taking us to a church in the middle of nowhere, insisting that it was Kroger. What lesson did we learn from that.....always take the directions to area attractions located at the front desk of the visitor's center. We did find time to walk around the park and see all of the great sights.
We also visited the mysterious Smith Mountain Lake Dam that eluded us last time we visited because a member of our party (who shall remain nameless) would not stop to ask for directions. Before our trip to the Dam we did pick up the directions from the visitor's center, not so willing to trust our GPS again. The views from the top were even more amazing.
As before, the rain followed us and we ended our trip to the Dam and headed back to the park. I had to stop and take one last picture while there.
I don't think I could have asked for a better honeymoon location. It was nice being away from the usual day to day for a while, but like all good things it did have to end.
