Well ... we're gonna play on the grass this year.
Below are photos from my trip out to the campsites today (May 1). I spent some time visiting with the manager in the Corps of Engineer's building and he says they're regulated right now to only 800 cfs because of conditions downstream. There's very little hope of having a sandy beach by the first week in June - he says they'd expect to drop about 2 feet by then. Their max outflow is something like 3600 cfs, and they did that for 72 days straight in 2010, but for now they're stuck at 800.
Picture 1 shows the campsites on the upper left side, and the submerged beach where we had the initial meet and greet last year.
Pictures 2 & 3 are the beach we spent time at on Saturday ... you can see the restroom and concrete pad on the right where the hamburger grill was set up.
Just for fun, I put up a picture from March of last year of the beach we used on Saturday, compare the two with the discolored line on the rocks as your marker ...
I'll pick up some frisbees, lawn darts, things like that. The lake is safe to boat - with the exception of submerged timber in the shallows, and some downed timber that has made its way towards the dam face. Everything is still marked, and I'll bring a contours map.