Center Hill Lake will be participating in National Get Outdoors Day (GO Day), the ninth annual event to encourage heathy, active outdoor fun. This year’s event will be held at Floating Mill Park and Hurricane Marina Saturday, June 11 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, with a beachfront movie at dusk. Attendance is free to the public.
Primary goals of the day are reaching first-time visitors to public lands and reconnecting our youth to the great outdoors. This GO Day event will offer a mix of information centers, and “active fun” areas – places where guests, and especially kids can fish (Tennessee’s Free Fishing Day), take pontoon rides to the island, games, scavenger hunt, fitness programs, live music, and much more. At dusk Floating Mill Park will be showing Pirates of the Caribbean at the swimming area.
There will also be two types of “boat” races the public may participate in. At Floating Mill Park there will be an “Anything that Floats Race.” Participants may build their “boat” out of any materials that floats. Hurricane Marina will be hosting a “Non-motorized Boat Race.” This event is open to anyone with a kayak, canoe, paddleboard, etc. that is not motorized. Both events will have prizes. For more information, please contact the Center Hill Resource Manager’s Office at: (931) 858-3125.
The pilot effort of National Get Outdoors Day was launched on June 14, 2008 and has grown every year. Last year over 171 official GO Day sites across the nation welcomed over 48,000 new faces to the joy and benefits of the great outdoors. GO Day is an outgrowth of the Get Outdoors USA! Campaign, which encourages Americans, especially our youth, to see our healthy, active outdoor lives and embrace our parks, forests, refuges, and other public lands and waters.
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