Cherokee Lake

Cherokee Lake explained

The center of the lake is at 36.2149, -83.4350. Surface elevation is about 1,047 feet. Outflow feeds the Holston River.

Where there is no marked beach, entry is usually from a boat ramp or an unimproved bank. No named swimming beach is mapped at Cherokee Lake in the federal and state datasets this guide reads. Access is through whatever the operating agency provides on the ground, so check with them first.

The closest lakes in this guide are Douglas Lake (Tennessee, 18 mi), Norris Lake (Tennessee, 26 mi) and Melton Hill Lake (Tennessee, 53 mi). Tennessee has 25 lakes on this site in total.

Check the operating agency for advisories before any water contact, especially for blue-green algae in late summer. Water temperature is not measured at this lake by any public agency we read. Most Tennessee day-use areas open for the summer season and close outside it.

We check the public feeds daily, so this page will fill in if one appears. No public gauge reports the water level at Cherokee Lake, so this page shows no level chart. We would rather leave the figure out than publish an estimate that nobody measured.