The Visitor Center is about a mile east of that intersection. Around the Visitor Center and along Highways 21 and 22, motels, restaurants, campgrounds, and resorts await visitors. The resorts on Reelfoot can arrange guided fishing and hunting trips and eagle watch and sightseeing tours on the lake. Package deals are available at most of the resorts. Blue Bank Resort even offers a package to the Casino Aztar on the Mississippi River at Carruthersville, Missouri.
Visitors can make side trips to the nearby national wildlife refuges.
Pamphlets are available at the Visitor Center for an auto tour that encircles Reelfoot Lake. It shows points of interest and has maps to the wildlife refuges and to hiking trails that are closed to vehicles. A shorter auto tour of Grassy Island, near Walnut Log, is also available. The route extends into the wildlife refuge and terminates at the lake where another boardwalk and an observation tower provide a more isolated look at the flora of Reelfoot. Reelfoot Lake State Park offers a varity of recreational opportunities.