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If you weren’t at Grand Lake over the past weekend, you missed a great one. The weather was warm, but perfect for outdoor activities. A sold-out Shangri-La Resort hosted their Battlefield Club…
GRDA Power For Progress Column July 20 2026
Unbelievably, the U.S. House of Representatives was true to their word. They voted on the “Sunshine Protection Act” last week – and approved it overwhelming (308-117). The bill now goes to the…
GRDA Power For Progress Column July 13 2026
The final 2026 Independence Day weekend numbers are in. We have no idea how many hundreds of thousands of people enjoyed fireworks, entertainment, food, drinks, golf, tennis, pickleball, volleyball,…
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If you weren’t at Grand Lake over the past weekend, you missed a great one. The weather was warm, but perfect for outdoor activities. A sold-out Shangri-La Resort hosted their Battlefield Club…
GRDA Power For Progress Column July 20 2026
Unbelievably, the U.S. House of Representatives was true to their word. They voted on the “Sunshine Protection Act” last week – and approved it overwhelming (308-117). The bill now goes to the…
GRDA Power For Progress Column July 13 2026
The final 2026 Independence Day weekend numbers are in. We have no idea how many hundreds of thousands of people enjoyed fireworks, entertainment, food, drinks, golf, tennis, pickleball, volleyball,…
From Blue Bluff to the Pensacola Dam, Grove to Disney, Monkey Island to Duck Creek – if you didn’t catch an incredible 4th of July weekend fireworks display, you must have either been gone, or you…
Here we are at the biggest week of the year on Grand Lake – the one weekend of the year where the population of Grand Lake will equal the population of the third largest city in Oklahoma. I hope you…
GRAND LAKE, OK – Looking for something fun to do around Grand Lake this July? The Grand Area Creative Alliance has released its July 2026 Calendar of Events, featuring live music, art classes, family…
GRDA Power for Progress Column June 22
I hope you were on hand to enjoy the picture perfect Grand Lake weather for Father’s Day weekend – well, at least the Saturday weather. There were so many boaters, golfers, and nighttime partiers, I…
Grand Lake has another wild weekend in the rearview mirror, but at least the storms waited until the evenings to allow a big weekend of outdoor activities to enjoy the daylight hours. Lots of outdoor…
For immediate release: 06/13/26 At 12:30 PM on Saturday, June 13: Grand Lake elevation was 746.81 feet. At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, two main spillway gates and four…
