- Party Cove
Party Cove is the popular name given for Anderson Cove, a
cove inLake of the Ozarks inMissouri that according to theNew York Times is the “oldest established permanent floating bacchanal in the country.” [Citation
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title =Party Cove:Wild in the Ozarks
newspaper =New York Times
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year =2005
date =2005-07-22
url = ]Various places in the lake have received the name since the 1960s but the informal event has been pushed out by private owners until since 1996 when it moved to Anderson Hollow Cove within the confines of
Lake of the Ozarks State Park at the 4 mile marker of theGrand Glaize Arm of the lakes a mile south of theGrand Glaize Bridge .The cove itself is about a mile long and 200 yards wide. On summer weekends as many 3,000 pleasure boats with around 8,000 aboard gather in the cove lining up in two rows with newcomers running a gauntlet of water cannon and taunts to take their clothes off (although the Kansas City Star reports that the overwhelming number of visitors in the fraternity house environment are male). [Citation
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title =In Party Cove, debauchery reigns
newspaper = Kansas City Star
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year =2007
date =2007-07-02
url = ]Missouri has 18 officers assigned to the entire Lake of the Ozarks. They had historically limited the policing of the cove to violations of
wake restrictions, and boat driving violations and Boating While Intoxicated summons. Attempts to stop the practice of lashing the boats together failed to pass theMissouri General Assembly .Missouri says that the area around the cove is the most dangerous in the entire lake. After two people died, in 2007 Missouri announced plans to have officers from other districts crack down on nudity (women can be topless but not bottomless), public sex acts, and drug use. [Citation
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title =Party Cove Crackdown Planned
newspaper = Fort Leonard Wood Daily Wake
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year =2007
date =2007-07-05
url = ]Major General Bill McCoy, commander of the
Fort Leonard Wood Army base, has declared that Party cove is "off limits" to Army personnel from the base. Safety and health issues were given as reasons. A Fort Wood soldier suffered a broken neck and a soldier and a civilian employee drowned in separate incidents this summer in the cove area. [Party Cove Off Limits to Fort Leonard Wood Soldiers, Friday, August 17, 2007, MissouriNet, http://www.missourinet.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=73F4724E-D87D-EC43-821E10E32264DF3E ]The cove has been featured on "
Playboy TV ", "A Current Affair" and Sexcetera.Fact|date=September 2007References
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