List of Oklahoma state parks

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This is a list of current and former state parks in Oklahoma.

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Oklahoma State Parks (Hover mouse over pog to popup clickable link)

Current parks

Park Name	County or Counties	Area in acres	Area in ha	Year Established	Water Body(s)	Remarks
Alabaster Caverns State Park	Woodward	200	81	1956		Largest public gypsum cave in the United States
Arrowhead State Park	Pittsburg	2,200	890	1963	Lake Eufaula	On a peninsula in Lake Eufaula. Lodge and cabins are closed. Now known as Arrowhead Area at Lake Eufaula State Park.
Beavers Bend State Park	McCurtain	3,482	1,409	1935	Mountain Fork River, Broken Bow Lake
Bernice State Park	Delaware	88	36	1970	Grand Lake o' the Cherokees	Now known as the Bernice Area at Grand Lake State Park.[1]
Black Mesa State Park	Cimarron	349	141	1959	Lake Carl Etling	Black Mesa Nature Preserve established in 1991 by the Oklahoma Nature Conservancies
Boiling Springs State Park	Woodward	820	330	1935
Cherokee Landing State Park	Cherokee	146	59	1954	Lake Tenkiller
Cherokee State Park	Mayes	43	17	1954	Grand Lake o' the Cherokees
Clayton Lake State Park	Pushmataha	510	210	1947	Clayton Lake
Disney/Little Blue State Park	Mayes	32	13	1966	Grand Lake
Fort Cobb State Park	Caddo	1,872	758	1960	Fort Cobb
Foss State Park	Washita	1,749	708	1961	Foss Lake
Gloss Mountain State Park	Major	640	260	1977
Great Plains State Park	Kiowa	187	76	1977	Tom Steed Reservoir
Great Salt Plains State Park	Alfalfa	840	340	1952	Great Salt Plains Lake
Greenleaf State Park	Muskogee	565	229	1954	Greenleaf Lake
Honey Creek State Park	Delaware	30	12	1954	Grand Lake	Now known as the Honey Creek Area at Grand Lake State Park.[2]
Keystone State Park	Tulsa	714	289	1966	Keystone Lake
Lake Eufaula State Park	McIntosh	2,853	1,155	1963	Lake Eufaula
Lake Murray State Park	Carter, Love	12,496	5,057	1938	Lake Murray	Added to National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
Lake Texoma State Park	Marshall	1,882	762	1951	Lake Texoma
Lake Thunderbird State Park	Cleveland	1,874	758	1965	Lake Thunderbird
Lake Wister State Park	Le Flore	3,428	1,387	1953	Lake Wister
Little Sahara State Park	Woods	1,600	650	1959
McGee Creek State Park	Atoka	2,600	1,100		McGee Creek Reservoir
Natural Falls State Park	Delaware	120	49	1990
Osage Hills State Park	Osage	1,100	450	1935
Quartz Mountain State Park	Greer	4,284	1,734	1935	Lake Altus
Raymond Gary State Park	Choctaw	263	106	1955	Raymond Gary Lake
Robbers Cave State Park	Latimer	8,246	3,337	1935	Fourche Maline, Lake Carlton, Lake Wayne Wallace
Roman Nose State Park	Blaine			1937	Lake Watonga, Lake Boecher
Sequoyah Bay State Park	Wagoner	303	123	1954	Fort Gibson Lake
Sequoyah State Park	Cherokee	2,200	890	1953	Fort Gibson Lake	Park formerly known as Western Hills State Park
Spavinaw State Park	Mayes	35	14	1959	Spavinaw Lake	Now known as the Spavinaw Area at Grand Lake State Park.[3]
Talimena State Park	Le Flore	20	8.1	1970
Tenkiller State Park	Sequoyah	1,190	480	1953	Lake Tenkiller
Twin Bridges State Park	Ottawa	63	25	1954	Neosho River, Spring River	Now known as the Twin Bridges Area at Grand Lake State Park.[4]

Former state parks

Park Name	County or Counties	Area in acres	Date founded	Stream(s) and / or Lake(s)	Notes
Adair Park (Stilwell, Oklahoma)	Adair	25			Small park within the city limits of Stilwell. Now owned by the City of Stilwell.[5]
Beaver Dunes Park	Beaver	520			Owned by City of Beaver.[5]
Boggy Depot Park	Atoka	630			Owned and managed by the Chickasaw Nation since 2011.[5]
Brushy Lake Park	Sequoyah	90	1971	Brushy Lake	Since 2011, owned and managed by the City of Sallisaw, Oklahoma
Crowder Lake University Park	Washita	22		Crowder Lake	Owned and operated since 2003 by Southwestern Oklahoma State University. Lake surface is 158 acres.
Dripping Springs Park	Okmulgee	1,075		Dripping Springs Lake	The former Dripping Springs State Park; operated by the City of Okmulgee since 2015.
Heavener Runestone Park	Le Flore	50	1970		Owned and managed by city of Heavener since 2011.[5]
Hochatown State Park	McCurtain	1,713	1966	Broken Bow Lake	Combined into Beavers Bend, no longer a separate park
Hugo Lake State Park	Choctaw	289	1974	Hugo Lake	Originally built in 1974 as Kiamichi Park, renamed Hugo Lake State Park in 2002.
Lake Eucha Park	Delaware	55	1967	Lake Eucha	The former Lake Eucha State Park; owned and managed by the city of Tulsa since 2011;[5] Park is not actually on Lake Eucha
Okmulgee Park	Okmulgee	1,075	1963	Okmulgee Lake	The former Okmulgee State Park; owned and managed by the City of Okmulgee since 2015
Red Rock Canyon Park	Caddo	310	1956		Leased to the City of Hinton, Oklahoma in 2018.
Snowdale State Park	Mayes	15	1959	Lake Hudson (Oklahoma)	Snowdale became the Snowdale Area at Grand Lake State Park.[6][7] The Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation chose not to renew its lease from the Grand River Dam Authority in 2019, shutting down the park.[8]
Walnut Creek State Park	Osage	1,429	1966	Keystone Lake	Park was permanently closed October 1, 2014[9]
Wah-Sha-She Park	Osage	266	1973	Lake Hulah	Formerly Wah-Sha-She State Park. Leased to the Osage Nation since 2011 by the US Corps of Engineers;[5] subleased since 2015 to the non-profit Hulah Lake Osage Association which maintains the park through volunteer efforts and campground fees.[10][11]

References

1. ^ "Bernice Area at Grand Lake State Park". TravelOK.com. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
2. ^ "Honey Creek Area at Grand Lake State Park". TravelOK.com. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
3. ^ "Spavinaw Area at Grand Lake State Park". TravelOK.com. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
4. ^ "Twin Bridges Area at Grand Lake State Park". TravelOK.com. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
5. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Wertz, Joe. "Why It’s Hard to Privatize and Move State Parks." September 2, 2011. Retrieved April 8, 2013.
6. ^ "Snowdale Area at Grand Lake State Park". State Park HQ. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
7. ^ "Lake Hudson". TravelOK.com. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
8. ^ "OPINION: The end for Snowdale State Park?". Senator Micheal Bergstrom, The Claremore Daily Progress, November 1, 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
9. ^ Logan, Layden, " Uncertainty Looms Over Walnut Creek’s Somber Final Weekend As A State Park." October 2, 2014. Accessed August 3, 2017.
10. ^ "Nation Subleases Wah Sha She Park to volunteers, considers Walnut Creek". Shannon Shaw Duty, Osage News, February 26, 2015. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
11. ^ "Hulah Lake Osage Association". Facebook. Retrieved August 5, 2020.

• State Parks on TravelOK.com Official Travel & Tourism website for the State of Oklahoma