Buffalo Park is a small day use and campground park, located on John H. Kerr Reservoir. The campground is open May 1 – September 30. The Day Use Park is open year-around. The campground offers 11 campsites with electricity and water hook ups and 10 primitive campsites without water or electricity. The campground also offers a dump station. Kerr Lake, also known as Buggs Island Lake, is a 50,000-acre lake that extends 39 miles up the wooded, cove-studded shoreline of the Roanoke River in Virginia and North Carolina. Kerr Reservoir was created with the construction of the John H. Kerr Dam in 1952. Its 800 miles of wooded shoreline stretch across six counties in two states and offer countless recreation opportunities for visitors.