July 30th 2020
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      Temporary Navigation Controls For Aug.1 Duck Creek Event
The Grand River Dam Authority Police Department will be implementing temporary navigation controls in the Duck Creek arm of Grand Lake on Saturday, August 1 for a special event. The Harbors View Raft Out on-water concert will be held from 1 to 5 PM in front of the Harbors View Marina, on the north end of Duck Creek. The temporary navigation controls will be in place in order to allow spectators to anchor in the center of the channel during the event.  More
 
Grand Lake & Pensacola Dam 80th Anniversary

Grand Lake celebrates its eighty anniversary because of the vision of a fourteen-year-old boy. Henry Holderman had a vision of a dam while hauling lumber from Kansas to Spavinaw hills in Oklahoma. He pursued his dream for thirty-four years and it became a reality in 1940. Construction began in 1938 on the Pensacola Dam as a Works Progress Administration project     (more) 

                                    
  

Gary and Becky Brock both grew up working at resorts - Gary on his family-owned resort on Grand Lake, and Becky at her family's resort on Broken Bow Lake in Southeastern Oklahoma. Years later, they spend much of their time living the resort life again - at Grand Lake's Shangri-La Resort.
Born in Pineville, Missouri, Gary's family moved to Grove when he was eleven years old. He grew up working at the family-owned Blue Bluff Harbor Resort, then for Sam Williams at the Sports Center in Grove and, later, at another family-owned resort, Brock's Resort.  (more)