Anderson County Park road reopens
After a guardrail was installed on Thursday, June 25, the main entrance to Anderson County Park was reopened to traffic on Friday, following extensive repairs to an area that slid down the bank of Norris Lake in February 2025. (photo:G. Chambers Williams III )
Although the reopened section still needs to be repaved, county Road Superintendent Gary Long said Tuesday that he wanted to get the entrance opened in time for the July 4 weekend.
Paving will come later, he said, but for now, the road surface is gravel.
“We have the road stabilized and we got the guardrail up on Thursday (June 26),” Long said. “Sometime in July we will repave the slide area and the entire road.
“We reopened it on Friday. We were glad to see it.”
Shortly after the road washed out, a park crew completed a temporary access road and opened it to traffic to allow people to bring boats to the launch area, and to use the picnic and beach areas, Park Manager Ben Taylor said in early March 2025.
A short section of Park Road collapsed along the bank of Norris Lake near the entrance to the park.
That did not affect the campground, whose entrance is just before the collapsed area.
Just the northbound lane on the lake side collapsed down the bank, but there were concerns that more of the road could fall as well, which led park officials to close the road rather than allowing traffic to try to use the unaffected lane.
The collapse occurred after the previous week’s heavy rains caused Norris Lake to fill to more than three feet above its normal summer water level.
