Lake Burton

Lake Burton: access and conditions

Its coordinates are 34.8269, -83.5551. Maximum depth is around 120 feet. The Tallulah River carries the outflow.

The federal and state datasets behind this guide list no named beach at Lake Burton. That does not mean there is no access, only that none is catalogued. Shoreline access on lakes like this one is often informal and unsigned. Chattooga River District, on Tallulah Falls Lake, is the closest named beach in this guide, about 10 miles off.

Ask the managing agency directly if the level matters for your trip. Lake Burton has no public water level gauge that we can read, so there is no level chart here. An invented number would be worse than none.

If the water looks like pea soup or paint, stay out and report it to the managing agency. No public sensor reports water temperature at Lake Burton, so the panel shows air temperature and wind. Most Georgia day-use areas open for the summer season and close outside it.

The closest lakes in this guide are Seed Lake (Georgia, 5 mi), Lake Rabun (Georgia, 7 mi) and Tallulah Falls Lake (Georgia, 11 mi). Georgia has 23 lakes on this site in total.