**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** In the 1920s, nationwide attention focused on south Arkansas when the Smackover field was ranked first among the nation’s oil fields. For five months in 1925, […]
ARKANSAS POST MUSEUM STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** Explore this complex of five exhibit buildings and learn about life on, and the history of, Arkansas’s Grand Prairie and Delta from 1877 to modern times. […]
BULL SHOALS-WHITE RIVER STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** In north central featuring the natural beauty of the Ozark Mountains, Bull Shoals-White River State Park stretches along the riverside and lakeshore where the White River […]
CANE CREEK STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** Located where the rolling terrain of the West Gulf Coastal Plain and the alluvial lands of east Arkansas’s Mississippi Delta meet, this park offers you the […]
CONWAY CEMETERY STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** James Sevier Conway (1796-1855), was a surveyor, planter, as well as, prominent and influential citizen of pioneer Arkansas. He took office as Arkansas’s first governor when […]
COSSATOT RIVER STATE PARK-NATURAL AREA
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE. This is an advertisement only. ** This park-natural area stretches for 12 miles along the wild and scenic Cossatot River. Long recognized as Arkansas’s premier whitewater […]
CRATER OF DIAMONDS STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** This is a advertisement only. WHERE CAN DIAMONDS BE FOUND? Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas is the only diamond-producing site in the world where the […]
CROWLEY’S RIDGE STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** Crowley’s Ridge State Park occupies the former homestead of Benjamin Crowley, whose family first settled this area atop the forested hills in northeast Arkansas. Native log […]
DAISY STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** In this scenic setting in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains, Lake Greeson, the Little Missouri River, and Daisy State Park make a winning combination for […]
DAVIDSONVILLE HISTORIC STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** This park preserves the site of historic Davidsonville. Established in 1815, the town included the Arkansas Territory’s first post office, courthouse, and land office. Bypassed by […]
DEGRAY LAKE RESORT STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** DeGray Lake Resort State Park is Arkansas’s only resort state park. Set in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains and nestled along the north shore of […]
DELTA HERITAGE TRAIL STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** This rail-to-trail conversion in southeast Arkansas is being developed in phases along the former Union Pacific Railroad right-of-way that stretches from one mile south of Lexa […]
DEVIL’S DEN STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** Devil’s Den State Park is an Arkansas icon. It is a beloved natural and historic treasure where over the decades park visitors have made memories to cherish a lifetime. Nestled deep […]
HAMPSON ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** Hampson Archeological Museum State Park in northeast Arkansas exhibits a nationally renowned collection from the Nodena site, a 15-acre palisaded village that once thrived on a […]
HERMANN DAVIS STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** Honoring an American hero, Herman Davis State Park surrounds the gravesite of, and monument to, Private Herman Davis, an Arkansas farm boy and war hero. Davis […]
HISTORIC WASHINGTON STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** Travel back to the 19th century in Historic Washington, Arkansas. Established on George Washington’s birthday in 1824, the town of Washington today is one of America’s […]
HOBBS STATE PARK-CONSERVATION AREA
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** Arkansas’s largest state park in land area, Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area (HSPCA) covers a 12,056-acre tract of diverse Ozark landscape along the southern shore of 28,370-acre […]
JACKSONPORT STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** In the 1800s steamboats made Jacksonport a thriving river port. During the Civil War, the town was occupied by both Confederate and Union forces because of […]
JENKINS FERRY BATTLEGROUND STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** In the spring of 1864, three Civil War battles took place in south central Arkansas that were part of the Union Army’s Red River Campaign. The […]
LAKE CATHERINE STATE PARK
**To keep up to date with any park changes, alerts and to plan your ARKANSAS STATE PARK GETAWAY go to the official Arkansas State Park website by clicking HERE.** Nestled in the natural beauty of the Ouachita Mountains on 1,940-acre Lake Catherine, one of the five popular Diamond Lakes in west central Arkansas, Lake Catherine […]