Georgia’s most popular lake draws enormous crowds every Labor Day weekend. The agencies that patrol it are asking for one thing in return.
By the time the long weekend is over, Lake Lanier will have hosted tens of thousands of visitors — swimmers, boaters, anglers, families with coolers and folding chairs and not nearly enough life jackets. It happens every Labor Day. And every Labor Day, the agencies that watch over the lake’s 38,000 acres brace for what that kind of volume can bring.
Ahead of Labor Day weekend 2026, the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office posted a boating safety reminder, and the message was about as direct as it gets…