Badin Lake is a 5300 acre man-made warm water lake located in the piedmont area in central North Carolina. It is one of a chain of lakes on the Yadkin River forming what's known as the Yadkin Pee Dee River Basin. The second largest river basin in North Carolina, The Yadkin Pee Dee covers 7213 square miles and includes 83 municipalities and all or part of 24 counties.


The Yadkin River originates on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge mountains near Boone North Carolina, flows northeasterly for about 100 miles to near Winston Salem, and then flows to the southeast until it joins the Uwharrie River, approximately 5 miles below the Badin lake dam, to form the Pee Dee River. The Pee Dee continues its southeastern flow through South Carolina where it meets the Atlantic Ocean near Georgetown, South Carolina. The North Carolina portion of the basin contains approximately 5,990 miles of freshwater streams and rivers.

Badin Lake is part of the Yadkin Project, owned and operated by Alcoa Aluminum and licensed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The Yadkin Project is a hydropower project consisting of four dams and power houses ( High Rock, Tuckertown, Narrows also known as Badin. and Falls) located on a 38 mile stretch of the Yadkin River in central North Carolina.

Badin Lake was the first of Alcoa's facilities to be built in 1918 and by comparison it is a deep water lake with depths at the dam approaching 180 feet. As such, the Badin dam produces more electricity than the other three Alcoa dams combined insuring a stable water level year round, and a very safe recreational facility that is ideal for all lake activities including boating fishing, skiing, tubing , jet skiing, etc. Badin Lake has about 125 miles of shoreline and the Uwharrie Point Peninsula, with 25 coves of varying sizes, has about 14 miles of shoreline.

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