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This is a list of current and former state parks in Oklahoma.
Current parks
Park Name |
County or Counties |
Area in acres |
Date
founded |
Stream(s) and / or Lake(s) |
Notes |
Alabaster Caverns State Park |
Woods |
200 |
1956 |
|
Largest public gypsum cave in the United States |
Arrowhead State Park |
Pittsburg |
2,200 |
1963 |
Lake Eufaula |
On a peninsula in Lake Eufaula. Lodge and cabins are closed. |
Beavers Bend State Park |
McCurtain |
1,300 |
1935 |
Mountain Fork River, Broken Bow Lake |
|
Bernice State Park |
Delaware |
88 |
1970 |
Grand Lake o' the Cherokees |
|
Black Mesa State Park |
Cimarron |
349 |
1959 |
Lake Carl Etling |
Black Mesa Nature Preserve established in 1991 by the Oklahoma Nature Conservancies |
Boiling Springs State Park |
Woodward |
820 |
1935 |
|
|
Cherokee Landing State Park |
Cherokee |
146 |
1954 |
Lake Tenkiller |
|
Cherokee State Park |
Mayes |
43 |
1954 |
Grand Lake o' the Cherokees |
|
Clayton Lake State Park |
Pushmataha |
510 |
1947 |
Clayton Lake |
|
Disney/Little Blue State Park |
Mayes |
32 |
1966 |
Grand Lake |
|
Dripping Springs State Park |
Okmulgee |
1,075 |
|
Okmulgee Lake |
|
Fort Cobb State Park |
Caddo |
1,872 |
1960 |
|
|
Foss State Park |
Washita |
1,749 |
1961 |
Foss Lake |
|
Gloss Mountain State Park |
Major |
640 |
|
|
|
Great Plains State Park |
Kiowa |
187 |
1977 |
Tom Steed Lake |
|
Great Salt Plains State Park |
Alfalfa |
840 |
1952 |
Great Salt Plains Reservoir |
|
Greenleaf State Park |
Muskogee |
565 |
1954 |
Greenleaf Lake |
|
Hochatown State Park |
McCurtain |
|
|
Broken Bow Lake |
|
Honey Creek State Park |
Delaware |
30 |
1954 |
Grand Lake |
|
Hugo Lake State Park |
Choctaw |
289 |
1974 |
Hugo Lake |
Originally built in 1974 as Kiamichi Park, renamed Hugo Lake State Park in 2002. |
Keystone State Park |
Tulsa |
714 |
1966 |
Keystone Lake |
|
Lake Eufaula State Park |
McIntosh |
2,853 |
1963 |
Lake Eufaula |
|
Lake Murray State Park |
Carter, Love |
12,496 |
1938 |
Lake Murray |
Added to National Register of Historic Places in 2001. |
Lake Texoma State Park |
Marshall |
1,882 |
1951 |
Lake Texoma |
|
Lake Thunderbird State Park |
Cleveland |
1,874 |
1965 |
Lake Thunderbird |
|
Lake Wister State Park |
Le Flore |
3,428 |
1953 |
Lake Wister |
|
Little Sahara State Park |
Woods |
1,600 |
|
|
|
McGee Creek State Park |
Atoka |
2,600 |
|
McGee Creek Reservoir |
|
Natural Falls State Park |
Delaware |
120 |
1990 |
|
|
Okmulgee State Park |
Okmulgee |
1,075 |
1963 |
Okmulgee Lake, Dripping Springs Lake |
|
Osage Hills State Park |
Osage |
1,100 |
1935 |
|
|
Raymond Gary State Park |
Choctaw |
263 |
1955 |
Raymond Gary Lake |
|
Red Rock Canyon State Park |
Caddo |
310 |
|
|
|
Robbers Cave State Park |
Latimer |
8,246 |
1935 |
Fourche Maline Lake Carlton, Lake Wayne Wallace |
|
Roman Nose State Park |
Blaine |
|
1937 |
Lake Watonga, Lake Boecher |
|
Sequoyah Bay State Park |
Wagoner |
303 |
1954 |
Fort Gibson Lake |
|
Sequoyah/Western Hills State Park |
Cherokee |
2,200 |
1953 |
Fort Gibson Lake |
|
Snowdale State Park |
Mayes |
15 |
1959 |
Lake Hudson (Oklahoma) |
|
Spavinaw State Park |
Mayes |
35 |
1959 |
Spavinaw Lake |
|
Talimena State Park |
Le Flore |
20 |
1970 |
|
|
Tenkiller State Park |
Sequoyah |
1,190 |
1953 |
Lake Tenkiller |
|
Twin Bridges State Park |
Ottawa |
63 |
1954 |
Neosho River, Spring River |
|
Former state parks
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Wertz, Joe. "Why It’s Hard to Privatize and Move State Parks." September 2, 2011. Retrieved April 8, 2013.[1]