We’ve lived in Asheville for 5 years and we’ve driven past Beaver Lake many times,but we’d never stopped. Our senior rescue dog recently developed a serious medical problem and a vet on North Merrimon treats her. We took her in today for a blood draw, then they administered a medication, and she had to be back in an hour for a second blood draw to see if the medication was working. To kill some time before her second blood draw, we drove to Beaver Lake to let her walk around. We parked on the north end of the lake. The lone sign said you couldn’t park there past a certain time, but that was it. We walked down to the canoe storage area and back. As we got to the car, a ranger pulled up next to us and said he wanted to see Maggie’s tag. I said we live outside the city limits and dogs aren’t required to have tags. He said where’s her Beaver Lake tag and I said she didn’t have one. He said tags are $100, it’s private property, and when he saw us he knew we weren’t supposed to be there. It appears we were in the wrong, but there was nothing to warn us we weren’t welcome there until the condescending ranger rolled in on us. I know he had a job to do, but he didn’t have to be a jerk about it. We’ll look at Beaver Lake in a different light from now on.