Smith Mountain Lake — Attraction in Rocky Mount

The MOST pretentious and self absorbed community I have ever been a part of. Young professionals, Beware. The older crowd is too busy talking about how “they made it” to the lake instead of lending an ear to others experiences. A retired construction worker will tell a restaurant how they should cook or run their business. Everybody somehow becomes experts in trades they have never put their time into. The young folk do NOT stand much of a chance out here because of the miserable ol’ timers envy. My wife and I put years of hustling with work and children only to be told (by people who have no knowledge or truth of our situation) that we “had it made” because we were at the lake conducting business at a relatively young age. Misery loves company, ever heard of that phrase? It exists ever so presently here. We treated people with kindness and honesty only to be stabbed in the back time and time again. Not everyone here is difficult to get along with but the vast majority of the populace here have ALL of the answers with little to no experience in certain subject matter. Conversations are weak and often self centered.Imagine trying to “shoot the crap” and all you receive in conversation is how someone has made their money or why someone else is doing better than theirselves because of family ties etc.. It’s a beautiful place to live but people make a community and I would never recommend a spot like this for happy young families. There are a lot of really good people here but is overshadowed by the majority...

My Grandparents Had a Nice Spot when I was younger my Grandfather hand dug n built a pathway down the hill to behind the house then a small upper deck you could sit n see the beautiful landscape then steps down to a small peer a floating dock n a pontoon boat and I remembered every neighbor cause I rode my little bike around I remember a couple the wires name was ducky I remember a lady named Gladys I remember on 4th of July wed be out on the boat n fireworks came from the old lighthouse I'd say about 1980s to 1990 when my grandmother was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and they moved closer to my mom n aunt but I will never forget the Beautiful surroundings just before the first condos were even built to the first round of 3 buildings then they moved Grace n George comley gave me many summers of Amazing memories to Easter time egghunts at a church in Bedford n the Amazing Mountains that I...

This I believe it's my favorite place the lake is absolutely gorgeous and I mean gorgeous mountains surrounding it you can't find a better place to sit out and look at the water and watch the mountains we rented a pontoon and took it all over huge huge Lake it was amazing if you get a chance go there they also have camping I have it there's a park close by I think it's a state park that has where you can camp to or you can rent houses cabins however you want to do it it's so well worth it...