Table Rock Lake is a roughly 43,100-acre reservoir on the White River in southwestern Missouri and northwestern Arkansas, spanning Stone, Taney, and Barry counties in Missouri near Branson. It was created in 1958 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed Table Rock Dam. The project provides flood risk management, hydroelectric power, water supply, and recreation on one of the White River's best-known highland lakes.

At conservation pool the lake has about 745 miles of shoreline, averages near 67 feet deep, and reaches about 220 feet near the dam. Clear water, limestone bluffs, deep river channels, and long arms of the White, James, and Kings rivers create classic Ozark structure for boaters and anglers, with the main pool stretching some 79 miles upstream from the dam.

Table Rock is nationally known for clear-water bass fishing—especially smallmouth, largemouth, and spotted bass—along with crappie, walleye, and trout in the White River tailwater below the dam. Fisheries are managed cooperatively by the Missouri Department of Conservation and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. Corps parks, marinas, state parks, and the Branson-area tourism corridor provide extensive public access.

Water levels on Table Rock Lake are managed by the Corps of Engineers around a conservation pool of 915 feet above mean sea level (NGVD29), with a flood-control pool extending to 931 feet. The reservoir sits between Beaver Lake upstream and Bull Shoals Lake and Norfork Lake downstream in the White River system, so elevations shift with basin rainfall, power generation, and flood operations—monitoring current lake levels matters for boating, fishing, and shoreline docks.

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