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Percy Priest Lake

Locals love Nashville’s Percy Priest Lake

By Katherine Ruppelt

June 10, 2025

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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.

Filed Under: Features, Programs Tagged With: Percy Priest Lake

Joining Nashville Rowing Club for a summer sunset practice

By Katherine Ruppelt

June 10, 2025

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This Is Nashville recently joined the Nashville Rowing Club for an evening practice to see how the rowers experience ‘Nashville’s Lake.’

Filed Under: Features, Programs Tagged With: Percy Priest Lake, Rowing

NashVillager Podcast: Safe boating on Midstate lakes

By Nina Cardona

June 3, 2024

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How do Nashville-area lakes balance the thrills of water sports with safe boating practices?  Plus your local newscast for June 3, 2024.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Army Corps of Engineers, Percy Priest Lake, water

Myth-busting: No, there’s not evidence that Gwen Shamblin faked her death

By Paige Pfleger

December 8, 2021

Dock for recovery on Priest Lake

Conspiracy theories are bubbling up again about the death of Gwen Shamblin, who ran the Remnant Fellowship Church in Brentwood, following an iHeartRadio show hosts’ theories being broadcast this week that Shamblin may have faked her death.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Gwen Shamblin, Percy Priest Lake

Report: Pilot Was Slow To Respond Before Deadly Crash Into Percy Priest Lake

By Tony Gonzalez

June 16, 2021

Rutherford Fire and Rescue photo of crash site

The pilot in the deadly Percy Priest Lake plane crash last month did not promptly respond to two separate air traffic control instructions before the plane went down, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: aviation, Percy Priest Lake, Rutherford County

Dredging Rescues Amphibious Car From Bottom Of Percy Priest Lake

By Tony Gonzalez

August 15, 2018

As it turns out, it’s easier to sink an amphibious car than to dredge one up from the bottom of a lake. It took about four hours yesterday for a dive team to rescue the car-boat that sank into Percy Priest Lake in just 20 seconds on Saturday.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: cars, Percy Priest Lake

Nashville Museum’s Amphibious Car Sinks To The Bottom Of Percy Priest Lake

By Tony Gonzalez

August 13, 2018

Life vests — not seatbelts. That was the lesson over the weekend when an amphibious Hobbycar went from driving on land to boating across the water to sinking to the depths of Percy Priest Lake.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: cars, Percy Priest Lake

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