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Home : Blogs : Deborah Beran Your Smith Mountain Lake REALTOR : Deborah Beran Your Smith Mountain Lake REALTOR's Blog : Archives July, 2011

SML’s Historic Highlights - 07/29/11 05:13 PM

Smith Mountain Lake isn’t only a modern day paradise, it’s an historic treasury. Its location in southwestern Virginia makes it rich in historical persons, places and events. Residents and visitors of SML are within a half-day’s drive of several fascinating historic places like Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, the Homestead Resort, Historic Williamsburg, Virginia, and Winston-Salem, North Carolina’s Old Salem Museums and Gardens. You don’t have to be a history lover to appreciate these popular attractions. Along with guided tours, an accurate restoration of buildings and grounds and friendly period-dressed staff, these places offer distinctive shopping, restaurants and events the whole family … (0 comments)

Serious About Wake Sports - SML as a Water Sporting Destination - 07/21/11 10:07 AM

Lake lovers draw inspiration from different attributes of lake living. Some gravitate toward the solitude and serenity, others toward on-the-water action. Smith Mountain Lake is particularly popular with wake sport enthusiasts. Throughout the summer season, wake boarding, wake skating, skiing, paddleboarding and more playful forms of water sporting provide challenge, fun and entertainment for all ages. Wake sports bring both amateur and professional competitors to SML. Most importantly, though, water sporting brings the SML community together.
Senior Smith Mountain Lakers join ski teams and support wake sport skill development in younger enthusiasts. Many SML young adults and teenagers start wake boarding, … (0 comments)

Waterfront Wedding - Plan The Big Day at Smith Mountain Lake - 07/06/11 02:51 PM

Are you preparing a Virginia wedding? Are you a southwest Virginia resident with a recently engaged daughter or granddaughter? With its endless body of water, breathtaking blue ridge mountain setting, green shoreline and stylish real estate, Smith Mountain Lake is both a resident’s dream AND a bride and groom’s top choice wedding backdrop. Weddings at Smith Mountain Lake are increasing in popularity - no surprise to locals. The lake offers astonishing natural beauty to enhance the big event experience (not to mention the photos) along with thrilling recreational opportunities for wedding guests not found in a town or city.

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Deborah Beran Your Smith Mountain Lake REALTOR

Smith Mountain Lake, VA

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RE/MAX Lakefront Realty Inc

Address: 6655 Scruggs, Moneta, VA, 24121

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