Pop culture gives Lake of the Ozarks a bad wrap. Take popular Netflix series Ozark, where a money-laundering Chicagoan Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) and his family feud tawdry, drug-hungry backwoods families in the namesake lake town. In Kansas City-bred Gillian Flynn’s bestselling thriller novel-turned-film Gone Girl, a chunk of the plotline takes place in Lake of… Continue reading The Lake of the Ozarks just got a travel feature in the New York Times