About

GreyCliff is located up on the Northwest corner of Lake Glenville.  Lake Glenville is a reservoir and it's dam and public beach are located 8 miles from Cashiers, North Carolina. The headwaters, at Hurricane Creek, are less than 2 miles. It was formed by the damming of the west fork of the Tuckasegee River in 1941. Between 1951 and 2002, it was officially known as "Thorpe Reservoir" after J. E. S. Thorpe, Nantahala Power's first president. It is still listed as such on many maps. The lake bottom plunges as steeply as the mountains that meet the shore. The depth a short distance from the water’s edge may register 80 feet or more. The lake also has 26 miles of shoreline and is the highest elevated lake east of the Mississippi River, encompassing 1450 total acres. It is only a short twenty-minute drive from Western Carolina University, and the town of Sylva.