Great Salt Plains State Park

Great Salt Plains State Park is a 840-acre (3.4 km²) Oklahoma state park located in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. It is located near the city of Jet, Oklahoma. Recreational opportunities at Great Salt Plains State Park include boating, camping, picnicking, swimming, hiking, mountain biking and exploring. The Great Salt Plains Lake is located at the park and covers 8,690 acres (35.2 km²) with 41 miles (66 km) of shoreline and is a shallow, salty lake with fishing opportunities for catfish, saugeye, sandbass and hybrid striper. Personal watercraft are not recommended. The park has RV and tent sites, comfort stations with showers, cabins, picnic sites, group shelters, swimming beach, playgrounds, boat ramps, fishing dock and equestrian trails. Horse rental is not available. The Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge sits adjacent to the park and offers great bird watching and fall foliage viewing opportunities. The refuge is the only spot in the world where crystal enthusiasts can dig for hourglass selenite crystals, a rare and fragile form of selenite, which is a form of gypsum. Digging times are available from April 1 through October 15.

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Protected Areas of Oklahoma

Federal

National Historic Sites:	Fort Smith • Washita Battlefield

National Recreation Areas:	Chickasaw • Winding Stair Mountain

National Forests:	Ouachita

National Memorials:	Oklahoma City National Memorial

National Wildlife Refuges:	Deep Fork • Little River • Optima • Ozark Plateau • Salt Plains • Sequoyah • Tishomingo • Washita • Wichita Mountains

National Grasslands:	Black Kettle • Rita Blanca

State

State Parks:

Adair • Alabaster Caverns • Arrowhead • Beaver Dunes • Beavers Bend Resort Park • Bernice • Black Mesa • Boggy Depot • Boiling Springs • Boswell Lake • Brushy Lake • Cherokee • Cherokee Landing • Clayton Lake • Crowder Lake • Disney/Little Blue • Dripping Springs • Fort Cobb • Foss • Gloss Mountain • Great Plains • Great Salt Plains • Greenleaf • Heavener Runestone • Hochatown • Honey Creek • Hugo Lake • Keystone • Lake Eucha • Lake Eufaula • Lake Murray • Lake Texoma • Lake Wister • Lake Thunderbird • Little Sahara • McGee Creek • Natural Falls • Okmulgee • Osage Hills • Quartz Mountain • Raymond Gary • Red Rock Canyon • Robbers Cave • Roman Nose • Sequoyah Bay • Sequoyah/Western Hills • Snowdale • Spavinaw • Talimena • Tenkiller • Twin Bridges • Wah-Sha-She • Walnut Creek