Log Cabin at Lake Lure

05/24/2026

Great video
**** Lake Lure is BACK! ****

05/23/2026

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Lake Lure Beach Reopens this Saturday! The Lake Lure Beach will open 7 days a week beginning Saturday, May 23, 2026 through Sunday, August 11, 2026, and then on weekends through Labor Day, Monday, September 7, 2026. For details, please visit https://www.lakeluretours.com/lake-lure-beach


Town of Lake Lure, NC

05/20/2026

Who knew???

04/25/2026

04/18/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/18gmMQbjFY/?mibextid=wwXIfr

MAYOR PETER O'LEARY'S SPRING 2026 UPDATE

The Village is coming alive with activity in its first full spring and summer since Helene, with visible recovery efforts everywhere. Main Street is open, welcoming visitors to shop, dine, and experience the ongoing revival. Visitors are encouraged -- Lake Lure is full, Chimney Rock at Chimney Rock State Park is open, and the Boulder’s Trail extension offers stunning views. As a reminder parking fees support rebuilding efforts.

✔️ Many businesses reopened on July 25, 2025, after being closed for 10 months; Chimney Rock Park and Hickory Nut led the way.

✔️ Business is around 50% normal, but we are open and more shops are reopening and rebuilding continues.

✔️ Before the flood, there were 44 businesses; all were damaged, 15 destroyed. Now, 25 are open and more are reopening.

✔️ 9 more businesses plan to reopen this year, including Chimney Rock Gemstone Mine, Bubba O'Leary's General Store (addition), Michael’s Sportswear/Chimney Factory Outlet, The Hickory Nut (in a new building), Hickory Nut Falls Family Campground, and Whistle Hop Brewing Company, the newest member to our Village. Burntshirt Vineyards Tasting Room & Bistro - Chimney Rock, The Best View Inn at Chimney Rock and Hickory Falls Inn are waiting on sewer lines to be replaced.

✔️ The “Raise the Rock” recovery plan is ongoing, outlining a vision for the Village’s future. The initial engineering work is underway by McGill Engineering forsStreetscape repairs and improvements. The plan is partly funded by $5.5 million in NC Commerce grants. Construction is expected to start in fall and finish in about a year.

✔️ Pending an EDA grant, a proposed business hub will provide five business locations to be initially offered to those Village businesses that were totally lost and a new central business district public restroom. Planned construction is winter 2026/2027.

✔️ Riverwalk improvements are being coordinated with NCDOT. A $1.7 million carbon reduction grant from NCDOT is supporting streetscape work.

✔️ Community groups, including Spokes of Hope and the Amish, continue to assist with recovery. Precision Grading & Disaster Relief are extending their work, helping property owners along the river.

04/18/2026

02/26/2026

🧗 🧗‍♂️🧗‍♀️ March 6-8
This might be a super fun event to watch!!?

The Rumble 2026 - March 6-8 | Lake Lure
This marks the first major climbing competition to return to the area since Helene. Spectators are welcome to come out and watch during the event. Non-registered climbers are welcome to climb at Rumbling Bald while the event is taking place. Spectators and Non-registered climbers will be shuttled up to the Rumbling Bald climbing access area AFTER all event participants and volunteers have arrived at the climbing area. Shuttles will leave Lake Lure Green Space beginning at 8 AM and bring competitors and spectators to Rumbling Bald throughout the day. These shuttles will likely start running for spectators climbers at around 10 am. Spectators must register at the non-competitor rate if they want a Rumble shirt and meals. Pets are discouraged at the Rumble event. Pets are allowed to be on Chimney Rock State Park property, leashed at all times.

Learn more: https://carolinaclimbers.org/civicrm/event/info

01/04/2026

Great events in Asheville!!

About one hour drive from the
Lazy Bear Lodge lake lure !

We’re flipping the calendar to 2026, and Asheville is welcoming the new year with winter events across the Blue Ridge. ✨

Here’s what January has in store:

🧌 Dambo’s Trolls: A Field Study
📍 The North Carolina Arboretum
📅 Through February 17

🏃 New Year’s Resolution Run 5K & 10K
📍 Downtown Asheville
📅 January 1

🎄 Christmas at Biltmore + Candlelight Christmas Evenings
📍 Biltmore
📅 Through January 4

🏺 Tutankhamun: His Tomb and His Treasures
📍 Biltmore
📅 Through January 4

🎶 Ondara Presents The Jet Stone Conspiracy
📍 The Grey Eagle
📅 January 11

🎶 Ruston Kelly – Pale, Through the Window Tour
📍 The Grey Eagle
📅 January 15

🎶 The Slocan Ramblers
📍 Wortham Center for the Performing Arts
📅 January 16

🎶 Fred Eaglesmith
📍 The Grey Eagle
📅 January 16

🎤 Killers of Kill Tony
📍 Harrah's Cherokee Center - Asheville
📅 January 16

🎶 Atmosphere – Winter Carnival Tour
📍 The Orange Peel
📅 January 17

⛸️ Holiday Ice Rink
📍 Asheville Yards
📅 Through January 19

🍽️ Asheville Restaurant Week
📍 Multiple Locations
📅 January 20–26

🎶 YMI Jazz & Soul Sessions
📍 YMI Cultural Center
📅 January 22–23 (4th Thursday & Friday)

🎭 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
📍 Wortham Center for the Performing Arts
📅 January 23

🎭 Great Expectations
📍 Wortham Center for the Performing Arts
📅 January 24

🎶 Sudan Archives – BPM North America Tour
📍 The Orange Peel
📅 January 24

🎭 Jeeves in Bloom
📍 North Carolina Stage Company
📅 January 28 – February 22

🎶 The Ocean Blue – Frigid Winter Days Tour
📍 Wortham Center for the Performing Arts
📅 January 29

🎤 Sheng Wang
📍 The Orange Peel
📅 January 29

🎶 The Wood Brothers
📍 The Orange Peel
📅 January 30–31

Find more details on each of these events here: https://bit.ly/4azbHJ7
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11/23/2025

WOW - 😮
More than 1 million cubic yards of debris were removed from Lake Lure after Hurricane 🌀 Helene tore through late Sept 2024.

So thankful the LAKE is scheduled to be “reopened” in 2026

11/22/2025

😋 Yum!! 😋

11/22/2025

Super fun winter activities just a 30 minute scenic drive from the cabin!