The same year, USA Today publishes LOTO as the Best Recreational Lake in the USA, but in the same year, LOTO is rated as the Top deadliest Lake in the USA?

http://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/11...states-399212/

http://www.10best.com/awards/travel/...eational-lake/
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The top 10 winners in the category Best Recreational Lake are as follows:

#1 Lake of the Ozarks
#2 Big Bear Lake
#3 West Okoboji Lake
#4 Lake Cumberland
#5 Lake Tahoe
#6 Lake Havasu
#7 Lake Michigan
#8 Lake Coeur d'Alene
#9 Flathead Lake
#10 Lake Powell




What are the 11 deadliest lakes in the United States?

11. Onondaga Lake, New York
10. Lake Washington, Washington
9. Devil’s Swamp Lake, Louisiana
8. Lake Erie
7. Lake Pleasant, Arizona
6. Lake Mohave, Arizona-Nevada
5. Lake Havasu, Arizona
4. Lake Michigan
3. Lake Powell, Utah-Arizona
2. Lake Mead, Nevada-Arizona
1. Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri

Just goes to show ya, Lake of the Ozarks has something for everyone!

The best lake is in Missouri, the "Show Me State".

Land of the HOLD MY BEER AND WATCH THIS.

Other than the death caused by the MHP/WP the majority are certainly natural selection-type stories.

You gotta be careful with statistics. The "best lake" is based on an opinion, but a guy has to look a little deeper into the "deadliest", as it can probably be supported or discounted by data. I'd would be interested in how they determined "deadliest". Does it have anything to do with figuring a ratio between hours on the lake vs. deaths, or just purely the number of deaths while not paying attention to how many people use the lake. Statistically, the most dangerous lake could be a 100 acre lake in Iowa that had 4 drownings last year. LOTO, comparatively, could be rather safe. Just sayin............

Who says you can't have your cake and eat it too!

The reason Lake Washington is on the deadliest list is too many unlit boats are out there.

Jesus. Don't boat in Arizona, you're bound to die!

Or go out in a row boat/ canoe or etc on Loto on a Saturday afternoon

Devil's Swamp Lake in Louisiana ... mosquitoes big enough to carry you away.

I definitely think much of the info used to make those lists is BS. I grew up in Syracuse which is where Onondaga lake is and nobody boats it cause axis chemical polluted the sh!t out of it. I live in buffalo now and hear they are trying to clean it up but I'm farely sure its still no where you would go boating.