Party Cove

On summer weekends as many as 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).

Attempts to stop the practice of rafting up, whereby boats are roped together, failed to pass the Missouri General Assembly.

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.

[3] Various locations around the lake have received the name since the 1960s, but the informal event was pushed out by private owners until 1996 when it moved to Anderson Hollow Cove, within the confines of Lake of the Ozarks State Park at the 4 mile marker of the Grand Glaize Arm of the lake, a mile south of the Grand Glaize Bridge.

[citation needed] In 2007, Major General Bill McCoy, commander of the Fort Leonard Wood Army base, declared Party Cove "off-limits" to Army personnel from the base for safety and health issues after a Fort Leonard Wood soldier suffered a broken neck and a soldier and a civilian employee drowned in separate incidents in the cove area that summer.