As Kile lay on life support, Foster passed the time Googling for information about Lake Lanier. Photograph: Moses Robinson/Getty ImagesEach tale from Lake Lanier seems more bizarre than the last. Photograph: Buck BuchananToday, Lake Lanier plays host to an estimated 14 million visitors a year, the same tourist traffic as Niagara Falls. Lake Hartwell, a reservoir on the Georgia-South Carolina border, had more drowning and boating fatalities than Lake Lanier did in 2024. “All those other lakes – Lake Oconee, Lake Allatoona – you’ve never heard of ’em; nobody knows how they were built.

Source: The Guardian December 23, 2025 21:06 UTC