Chatuge Lake

Planning a day at Chatuge Lake

On the map, Chatuge Lake is centered near 34.9910, -83.7850. Surface elevation is about 1,926 feet. Releases go downstream into the outflow =. The deepest point on record is about 144 feet.

The federal and state datasets behind this guide list no named beach at Chatuge Lake. That does not mean there is no access, only that none is catalogued. The nearest mapped swimming spot is Nantahala National Forest on Nantahala Lake, roughly 17 miles away. A missing beach entry often just means nobody has catalogued the access point yet.

Water temperature is not measured at this lake by any public agency we read. Inland lakes are not monitored the way ocean beaches are, so posted signs matter more here. Most Georgia day-use areas open for the summer season and close outside it.

Nearby water includes Nantahala Lake (North Carolina, 14 mi), Lake Nottely (Georgia, 17 mi) and Lake Burton (Georgia, 17 mi). Georgia has 23 lakes on this site in total.

Where an agency publishes a figure, we show it with the time it was taken; here there is none. Nobody publishes a continuous level for Chatuge Lake in a form this guide can read, so the page carries access and weather instead.