Claytor Lake, Virginia - Places You Need To See

  This past weekend, Joey and I visited Radford, Virginia while spending some time with a close friend of ours. Radford is a beautiful, small town nestled in the mountains-- closer to West Virginia than the east coast and of course, home to Radford University and is about twenty minutes away from Virginia Tech.
  

  While visiting, our friend drove us a short distance from Radford, out to Pulaski county to visit a National Park: Claytor Lake. It only costs five dollars to park your car and four dollars, per person, to get in; (three dollars during the week, four dollars during weekends).

  After walking past the entry gates, we were engulfed in the awe of nothing but dark, lusciously green mountains, sand, and the gorgeous lake; pictures simply couldn't do this place justice-- (I feel like that's such a cliché thing to say, but oh my God.. it's so true in this case).

  

  We spent the next hour laughing and floating around in the water. The bottom of the lake consisted of nothing but soft, squishy sand-- no creepy creatures were lurking beneath our feet here. Well, unless you count these friendly snails that we found so many of: 

 (Aren't they so cute?)

  Overall, this place was absolutely breathtaking. I was so sad when we all three came to the conclusion that the weather was far too overcast to stick around in the water any longer-- we were super cold. If the weather was on our side, we would have stayed for hours.

  

  If you ever find yourself traveling closer to the western side of Virginia, you should most definitely visit Claytor Lake. I cannot wait to go back.

kati