About Us
The Owners: The Bane, Elliott, and Oliver families
Located just 10 minutes from downtown Roanoke, Virginia; Loch Haven Lake offers four-season recreational club membership opportunities and facilities for company & private events.
History of Loch Haven Lake
For decades Loch Haven Lake has existed in a peaceful, forested
setting. The history of the man-made lake began in 1930 when Mr.
Davidson built a concrete dam. The dam is 25 feet tall, 77 feet
long, 4 feet thick at the top and 9 feet thick at the bottom. This
dam produced a lake fed by three small creeks and three underwater
springs. Mr. Davidson also built several picnic shelters and a sandy
beach along the lake shore. In 1946, Mr. Noel Preece, an Englishman
who had also been a sheep herder in Australia, purchased the
property and began building stone walls, cabins and the party house.
After Mr. Preece’s death in 1961, Mrs. Preece continued to run Loch
Haven Country Club. She catered weddings, parties and rented cabins
and club facilities. In 1993, Mrs. Preece died and her son Skye
Preece took over ownership and management of Loch Haven Club. In
2001, Skye Preece sold Loch Haven Lake to the Bane family, Gene and
Becky Bane and their three children Katye Bane Oliver, Ember Bane,
and Rylie Bane Elliott. The Bane family maintains the legacy of the
past 60+ years in continuing to provide Roanoke’s only year-round
outdoor recreation membership club as well as party house and picnic
shelter rentals available to the outside community for events and
weddings. The property is 73.9 acres which includes the six-acre
lake. The lake has been stocked with large-mouth bass and bluegill.
The property consists of five long-term rental residences, a party
house, 3 picnic shelters, a tennis court, volleyball court,
horseshoe pits, ping-pong, canoes and kayaks, hiking trails, a stone
fire-pit and a white sand beach.
Contact
Loch Haven Lake
P.O. Box 1538
Salem, Virginia 24153
(540) 366 - 1174
events@lochhavenlake.com
