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Current parks[edit]
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 |
|
|
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] |
Hugo Lake State Park |
Choctaw |
289 |
117 |
1974 |
Hugo Lake |
Originally built in 1974 as Kiamichi Park, renamed Hugo Lake State Park in 2002. |
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 |
|
|
|
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/Western Hills State Park |
Cherokee |
2,200 |
890 |
1953 |
Fort Gibson Lake |
|
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[edit]
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 (Sallisaw, Oklahoma) |
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 |
1075 |
|
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 Beaver’s Bend, no longer a separate park |
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[edit]
- ^ “Bernice Area at Grand Lake State Park”. TravelOK.com. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
- ^ “Honey Creek Area at Grand Lake State Park”. TravelOK.com. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
- ^ “Spavinaw Area at Grand Lake State Park”. TravelOK.com. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
- ^ “Twin Bridges Area at Grand Lake State Park”. TravelOK.com. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: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.[1]
- ^ “Snowdale Area at Grand Lake State Park”. State Park HQ. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
- ^ “Lake Hudson”. TravelOK.com. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
- ^ “OPINION: The end for Snowdale State Park?”. Senator Micheal Bergstrom, The Claremore Daily Progress, November 1, 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
- ^ Logan, Layden, ” Uncertainty Looms Over Walnut Creek’s Somber Final Weekend As A State Park.” October 2, 2014. Accessed August 3, 2017.
- ^ “Nation Subleases Wah Sha She Park to volunteers, considers Walnut Creek”. Shannon Shaw Duty, Osage News, February 26, 2015. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
- ^ “Hulah Lake Osage Association”. Facebook. Retrieved August 5, 2020.