A young Roswell woman ended yesterday in critical condition after hitting her head while tubing behind a boat on Lake Allatoona. The accident happened around 5 pm near Little River Marina. The victim slid off the tube and landed face first into the rock. Compounding the problems were that the woman was approximately 1500 yards […]

Tragically this weekend saw a fifth drowning victim of the year at Lake Allatoona. While the other victims were all young and drowned around Red Top Mountain Park, Joel Felix was in his thirties and was boating with family and friends near the Victoria Day Use Area when he decided to go swimming. Cherokee County […]

The Cherokee Outdoor Family YMCA on Lake Allatoona renamed its climbing tower for a Olen Reid Ashe III, a Georgia Tech student and former camp staffer killed in a skydiving accident. The 60-foot structure will became the Reid Ashe Memorial Climbing Tower. Toby Bramblett, YMCA executive director, described Ashe as a “rock for this facility” […]

Lake Allatoona has suffered an unusual number of drownings this year, with a fourth victim over the weekend. Miguel Ramos, 18 years old and from Athens, drowned at Red Top Mountain Park while trying to swim from one side of a cove to the other. Tragically, the other three victims this year were of a […]

Unfortunately a third student has drowned on in Allatoona in three months. A Bartow County teen drowned late Monday afternoon in a Lake Allatoona cove popular with local high schoolers. The 17-year-old victim went under after swimming about one-eighth of a mile across the cove, located on the backside of Red Top Mountain in Bartow […]

Two Cobb County High School Students drowned on Lake Allatoona on Friday, May 2nd. The two students, aged 15 and 18, died at Red Top Mountain Park while trying to swim across a 100-yard wide channel. The older student started to have trouble and the younger one died while trying to rescue him. A man […]