The Lakeside Life
A lake living lifestyle luxury magazine
Smith Lake's most comprehensive website!
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Current issue cover photo by: David Bean at Oh Snap Photography - The Ivey Home in Bear Pen on Ryan Creek. Please check out all our incredible participating local photographers - see the photographer section of our Business Directory.
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The ONE STOP SHOP for all things Lewis Smith Lake in Alabama!
Check out the entire website - Smith Lake's most comprehensive and often visited.
Be sure to click our LOCAL INFO tab, and the Business Listings pages - that's where you'll find tons of information about the immediate tri-county lake area. EMAIL or CALL/TEXT us any time if there is something more you'd like us to add to the site - we'll be sure to credit you!
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Be sure to click our LOCAL INFO tab, and the Business Listings pages - that's where you'll find tons of information about the immediate tri-county lake area. EMAIL or CALL/TEXT us any time if there is something more you'd like us to add to the site - we'll be sure to credit you!
Advertise - Are you paying to be on another site/app? Read here and ask yourself WHY?
ADVERTISE FREE?! Yes, there are a couple of options. Learn more HERE.
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ABOUT US
"We offer an original and authentic take
on Lewis Smith Lake in Alabama!"
The Lakeside Life represents an original and authentic take on Lewis Smith Lake in North Alabama. We offer a premier luxury 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 community. We want nothing more than to convey our overall deep-rooted love for lake life. Lewis Smith Lake entertains people from all over the country, all over the world. The Lakeside Life looks forward to sharing information across our platforms to inspire those who want to know more about the Smith Lake life. Be sure to read basic facts of Smith Lake and check out all our "Local Info" pages. |
Best of Smith Lake 2023 - announcement poster
Best of Smith Lake - Our community votes annually on their favorite businesses in a given year for the entire lake area - including all businesses in the tri-county area as well as businesses outside the area that serve the lake community routinely. Voting is open year round, and the contest is usually wrapped up in fall of each year. Currently we have over 200 categories in which businesses can win the top spot, and we add categories upon request. The top 3 winners overall are those who receive the most votes in the entire contest, and we're now celebrating the top 25 since the contest has grown. It's simply a fun way for the community to give back to the businesses with which they have received superior customer service in a given year. VOTE NOW for your favorites!
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"We seek to have a particular impact on unifying our southern lake community, specifically here on 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
The Lakeside Life MagazineThe Lakeside Life Magazine is a lake lifestyle luxury publication, one you'll be proud to display on your coffee table, featuring our home lake, the incomparable Lewis Smith Lake. We highlight the people, businesses and activities surrounding our lake. Established in October of 2017, the magazine was originally designed to be published on a quarterly basis - except through COVID to present where we have since printed 3 issues a year (tri-annual) and it worked out great to help our advertisers through a tough financial period. And we found our readers enjoyed larger issues this way. Who knows, we might continue that! Our publication is heavy, thick, full of content featuring over 150 elite area advertisers. We are developed, designed, and published locally - 100% LOCAL - no expensive out of state franchise involved that YOU have to pay for.
We 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 #lakelife #livelifelakeside #smithlakecommunity #thelakesidelife and so much more! Just watch how we tag, and join in!
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BlogThe Lakeside Life's Smith Lake Alabama Blog will bring you stories, information, or fun highlights between issues as often as we can. 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, whether through social media, on the blog or in the magazine, contact us.
Check out the #howilake page. We'd like to know, "how do you 'lake'"? Send us a picture that you'd like featured and just let us know where you want us to feature it. Other blogs will offer fun content like spotlights on businesses and people, informational material, as well as advice, recipes, etc. But we aim to keep it fun and 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, find doorways to our favorite affiliate stores, and join us through our Amazon store to find even more favorite lake lifestyle products.
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Our website sponsors welcome you to Smith Lake!
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Website and Smith Lake Community group supporters are shown below. Check them out here, on our business listings by alpha and category, as well as on the Market Place page for more advertisers and their full print AD view. These local businesses are strong supporters of the lake community - admired and recommended by many!
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Below are our supporting Realtors® (shown alphabetically) - contact them for a fantastic Smith Lake home buying experience! Also find them in our business listings by alpha and category, as well as on the REAL ESTATE and Market Place pages. Visit their pages and websites for current listings.
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Facebook Group "Smith Lake Community," + Web and Print SPONSORS
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Find exceptional REAL ESTATE listings on the following pages, listed alphabetically. Get pre-approved for your mortgage and contact the agent of your choice to buy the lake home you've been dreaming of! Never hesitate to interview agents and get referrals. We're here to help if you need anything.
Click a logo to visit a Realtor's Facebook page or website.
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If you would like to be an advertiser, a website or Facebook group sponsor of "Smith Lake Community", or be listed in our business directories, please know that we offer many of these services at very reasonable and highly competitive rates; PLUS, they are available to certain level magazine advertisers at no additional charge - just call us @ 205-470-8250 or email us at [email protected].
Have a suggestion? We are always receptive to new ideas on how we can best serve our readers and community. EMAIL us any time.