Scenes from 1987's "Dirty Dancing" were filmed in and around the town. Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, stayed at the Lake Lure Inn while shooting.

An excavator scooped silt out of the lake, the drone of equipment mixing with pattering rain. When Tropical Storm Helene ravaged areas of Western North Carolina in September, the town of Lake Lure ...

Lake Lure Classical Academy is a charter school located in Lake Lure, NC, which is in a distant rural setting. The student population of Lake Lure Classical Academy is 442 and the school serves K-12.

Hurricane Helene swept across the Southeast, causing major flooding and destruction throughout North Carolina ... her house in Chimney Rock Thursday night and gotten a room at the Lake Lure ...