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Locals love Nashville’s Percy Priest Lake

This Is Nashville

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WPLN Katherine Ruppelt
Locals enjoy the water and bank at Percy Priest's Hamilton Recreation Area on a June weeknight.
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We are heading into the heat of summer — and there is one spot that many locals here in Nashville go to where they can relax and cool down: Percy Priest Lake.

Located close to the Nashville International Airport, Mt. Juliet and Smyrna, the human-made reservoir draws a crowd as diverse as the fast-growing communities that surround it. This Is Nashville recently went to a popular spot at Percy Priest to check in with those who claim ‘Nashville’s lake’ as their own to find out what they were there to enjoy.

This feature is part of the full This Is Nashville episode, J. Percy Priest: Nashville’s Lake.

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Katherine Ruppelt

Katherine Ruppelt is a senior producer at WPLN. Katherine first came to public radio as a freelancer for WPLN. Her stories have aired on The World and Here and Now. She worked on WPLN's This Is Nashville as a multimedia producer. A native native of Cleveland, Ohio, Katherine has been a bit of a rolling stone- and now calls Nashville home. As a journalist and producer, she is dedicated to helping others tell their stories. She enjoys profiling individuals and communities, covering the personal impacts of policies, the environment, and rural life, and exploring different takes on how to live well as a human. While she’s always finding stories and writing for fun, she also fills her early mornings with yoga, her evenings with cooking and time with friends, and her free time as a happy (and sendy) intermediate climber, whitewater kayaker, diver, and surfer.

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