Smith Lake's most comprehensive website!Your ONE STOP SHOP for all things Lewis Smith Lake in Alabama! Check out our entire website, and be sure to check out our LOCAL INFO section for tons of extra local info.
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Our website sponsors welcome you to Smith Lake!Click a photo to visit a sponsor's Facebook page. Would you like to be a website or Facebook Group "Smith Lake Community" sponsor or be listed in our business directories? Email us at thelakesidelife@gmail.com.
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An Authentic Take on Lewis Smith Lake in Alabama
The Lakeside Life represents an authentic take on Lewis Smith Lake in north Alabama. We offer a publication, blog, e-commerce, social media and more.
Our goal is to share Smith Lake with the outside world – routine visitors, vacationers, the individuals who call it home, and the businesses that surround the area. We offer content that celebrates the people and entities who form the local community. We want nothing more than to convey our overall deep-rooted love for lake life in general. Lewis Smith Lake entertains people from all over the country, even all over the world. The Lakeside Life looks forward to sharing information and photography across our platforms to inspire those who want to know more about life on Smith Lake. Read more about the basic facts of Smith Lake on our "Local Info" pages. |
Best sure to click over to our Best of Smith Lake Contest pages INFO, current RESULTS, for previous year results or to VOTE!
Best of Smith Lake 2020 - announcement page from the 2020 Fall/Winter issue
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The Lakeside Life MagazineThe Lakeside Life Magazine is a lake lifestyle publication featuring our home lake, the incomparable Lewis Smith Lake. We highlight the people, businesses and activities surrounding our lake. The magazine is published on a quarterly basis, having started in October of 2017.
Social MediaWe use our reach on social media to further promote not only our advertisers, but all our supporters and readers, and their take on living lakeside! Join us on Instagram @thelakesidelife_smithlake to keep up with all the fun. We segregate lots of information to other accounts as listed: @smithlakebiz @smithlakepix @smithlakeal & @visitsmithlake. If you use familiar hashtags when posting we can enjoy and share your interpretations of topics like: #howilake #spotsonsmith #smithlakelife #smithlakepets #smithlakepeople #smithlakecommunity #thelakesidelife and so much more! Just watch how we tag, and do the same!
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BlogThe Lakeside Life blog will bring you stories, information, or fun highlights between issues. Among other things, one focus we hope to expand on is our #howilake stories. We hope these will become pieces submitted by fellow lake lovers. If you are interested in having a story of any kind featured, contact us. Check out the #howilake page. We'd like to know, "how do you 'lake'"? Send us a picture if you'd like it featured in a blog or in the magazine - just be sure to let us know what you want us to do with anything you send us.
Other blogs will offer fun content like spotlights on businesses & people, informational material, as well as advice, recipes, etc. But we aim to keep it fun, light, no heavy or negative topics, it's just not our style. E-commerceThe Lakeside Life seeks to offer products that are interesting and unique to all those who love lake life. Check out our online store to find our latest offerings, and join us through our Amazon store to find more lake lifestyle products.
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Have a suggestion? We are always up for new ideas on how we can serve our readers and community better. Please email us any time at thelakesidelife@gmail.com.
We seek to have a particular impact on unifying our southern lake community, specifically here on our beautiful Lewis Smith Lake in North Alabama, bringing together all three counties in which it lies – Cullman, Walker & Winston – and the surrounding areas. - The Lakeside Life Team