List of Oklahoma state parks

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

Park Name	County or Counties	Area in acres	Date founded	Stream(s) and / or Lake(s)	Notes
Adair State Park	Adair	25			Small park within the city limits of Stilwell. Now owned by the City of Stilwell.^[1]
Beaver Dunes Park	Beaver	520			Owned by City of Beaver.^[1]
Boggy Depot Park	Atoka	630			Owned and managed by the Chickasaw Nation since 2011.^[1]
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.
Heavener Runestone Park	Le Flore	50	1970		Owned and managed by city of Heavener since 2011.^[1]
Lake Eucha Park	Delaware	55	1967	Lake Eucha	Owned and managed by the city of Tulsa since 2011;^[1] Park is not actually on Lake Eucha
Walnut Creek Park	Osage	1,429	1966	Lake Keystone
Wah-Sha-She Park	Osage	266	1973	Lake Hulah	Owned by the Osage Nation since 2011. ^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 Wertz, Joe. "Why It’s Hard to Privatize and Move State Parks." September 2, 2011. Retrieved April 8, 2013.

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

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