by Nathan Bechtold | Feb 15, 2019 | Stories
The first-ever lakeside Margaritaville resort is welcoming guests at Lake of the Ozarks this year. The widely loved resort brand partnered together with the historic Tan-Tar-A Resort in 2017, and began a top-down renovation. As of spring 2019, Margaritaville Lake...
by Nathan Bechtold | Jan 23, 2019 | Featured, Stories
While very little of the Netflix series Ozark was filmed at the lake where the story takes place, the show still resonates with those who live at Lake of the Ozarks or love to visit. Not all Ozarkians appreciated Ozark’s magnification of the drug and crime elements,...
by Nathan Bechtold | Jan 22, 2019 | Stories
The Lake of the Ozarks has evolved from a rustic hunting and fishing destination to the boating Mecca of the Midwest. Here’s a peek at the first four decades: from the building of the dam in 1932 to the start of the Lake’s heyday in the 1960s. 1930s — The Lake’s First...
by vryxpivs-ca | Jan 8, 2019 | Featured, Stories
Boaters love Missouri. Besides being home to the number one recreational lake in the country—Lake of the Ozarks—Missouri also boasts several other very popular lakes for recreational boaters and anglers, as well as the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.But Lake of the...
by vryxpivs-ca | Jan 8, 2019 | Featured, Stories
by Brent FrazeeFor almost 40 years, I’ve celebrated the arrival of spring at Lake of the Ozarks.When the redbuds and dogwoods bloom, I want to be in a boat on the big lake, casting for bass and crappies.It’s a time when the giant reservoir shows its mild side, long...
by vryxpivs-ca | Jan 8, 2019 | Featured, Stories
Before the dam was built, what would one day be Lake of the Ozarks was a largely undeveloped area, with tiny communities scratching out a living in the rocky Ozark soil. Through the years, people arrived to play at a Lake built first for power, but whose potential...