VOTE in green form below the instructions for the Best of Smith Lake Alabama 2025!

Voting for 2025 ends at midnight 10/1/2025.
For more information about the contest, check out the INFO tab.  For results from the last contest, check out the STATUS tab.
INFORMATION:
All votes are held in strictest confidence through a 3rd party entity as well as being heavily confirmed by the same 3rd party entity.  Votes are stored securely as the property of this contest only.  Be sure that you have read the contest INFO page.  

INSTRUCTIONS: 
  • Fill out the REGISTRATION FORM at the top of the ballot below and begin voting by typing your answer into each slot where you wish to nominate a business/entity/person.
  • You may vote in as few or many categories as you like.  To return to your form to add vote for other categories later, simply sign back in under your email to vote in extra categories.​  However, you CANNOT vote in the same category over and over with a same OR a bogus email address.  Our 3rd party marketing app has a well-honed system for catching these by checking the emails, email syntax, urls, plus performing DNS & IP lookups and server pings.
  • You may vote for any business headquartered in the Smith Lake tri-county area of Cullman, Walker and Winston Counties, and/or any North Alabama business that services or sells to the greater lake area routinely and is located in the state of Alabama.  
  • You do not have to vote in every single category/slot if you do not have a vote for that category.  Fill out only the slots you have an answer for.  If you like, you may return at any time to fill in any open slots you left blank previously in a previous session.  Just be sure to register again for additional categories to be counted.
  • Please consider following and supporting the entities you vote for on social media, either Facebook or Instagram (if the entity is on those platforms), as those are excellent ways to support favorite businesses, and FREE!​​
  • We encourage you to follow OUR Instagram and Facebook accounts below so that you never miss contest posts, community posts and information from local businesses. In fact, you MUST be a follower of one of our accounts for votes to be valid.  
We also encourage you to follow and support our gracious sponsors below.   EMAIL or text us if you have any questions or issues.  

2024 Contest Sponsors:

Brought to you in 2024 by The Lakeside Life Magazine, GoTees Screen Printing & Embroidery, TowBoatUS-Smith Lake, and  (with a separate annual event to be sponsored for 2024 by Realtors Melinda Edwards and Brooke Edwards of Lake Homes Realty).  This contest is the copyright of The Lakeside Life Magazine with all of its sponsors.

2024 Event Sponsors:

This annual contest is a copyright of The Lakeside Life magazine with its sponsors, established July 1, 2020.
ANNUAL EVENT (to be announced):
We are planning an annual event for this contest, so please follow us and our event sponsors for more details:

    REGISTRATION FORM

    ​(*MUST be an actual legit email, our 3rd party verification company checks these and throws out bogus emails)

    VOTE HERE

    REMEMBER - You don't have to vote in every single slot - it's up to you (vote in one, some or all).  You may return at any time to vote in other categories if you need to, just sign back in to do so.

    BUSINESSES

    PROFESSIONALS

    LOCAL MISC AND ENTERTAINMENT

    FOOD & DRINK

    SHOPPING
    YOU'RE DONE!  Click SUBMIT below and come back again ANY TIME if you'd like to fill in answers for any slots you may have skipped.  Also, check back to see if we add any new categories.  We might even give away something to a top participator who fills out the majority of slots!  Stay tuned...

    Best of luck to your nominees!  See prize subscription code info below.  ​Thanks for participating!  
WANT A GIFT FOR FILLING OUT THE BALLOT?  Email us and ask for a code and use it for 30% off a magazine subscription, AND if you filled out more than 25 slots, you can also request a $100 coupon code for 2025 wake products from our store "Lakeside Gear."