List of Oklahoma state parks

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates This is a list of current and former state parks in Oklahoma.

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Current parks

Park Name   County or Counties   Area in acres   Area in ha   Year Established  Water Body(s) Remarks  
Alabaster Caverns State Park Woodward Template:Convert 1956 Largest public gypsum cave in the United States
Arrowhead State Park Pittsburg Template:Convert 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 Template:Convert 1935 Mountain Fork River, Broken Bow Lake
Bernice State Park Delaware Template:Convert 1970 Grand Lake o' the Cherokees Now known as the Bernice Area at Grand Lake State Park.<ref name=Bernice>Template:Cite web</ref>
Black Mesa State Park Cimarron Template:Convert 1959 Lake Carl Etling Black Mesa Nature Preserve established in 1991 by the Oklahoma Nature Conservancies
Boiling Springs State Park Woodward Template:Convert 1935
Cherokee Landing State Park Cherokee Template:Convert 1954 Lake Tenkiller
Cherokee State Park Mayes Template:Convert 1954 Grand Lake o' the Cherokees
Clayton Lake State Park Pushmataha Template:Convert 1947 Clayton Lake
Disney/Little Blue State Park Mayes Template:Convert 1966 Grand Lake
Fort Cobb State Park Caddo Template:Convert 1960 Fort Cobb
Foss State Park Washita Template:Convert 1961 Foss Lake
Gloss Mountain State Park Major Template:Convert 1977
Great Plains State Park Kiowa Template:Convert 1977 Tom Steed Reservoir
Great Salt Plains State Park Alfalfa Template:Convert 1952 Great Salt Plains Lake
Greenleaf State Park Muskogee Template:Convert 1954 Greenleaf Lake
Honey Creek State Park Delaware Template:Convert 1954 Grand Lake Now known as the Honey Creek Area at Grand Lake State Park.<ref name=HoneyCreek>Template:Cite web</ref>
Keystone State Park Tulsa Template:Convert 1966 Keystone Lake
Lake Eufaula State Park McIntosh Template:Convert 1963 Lake Eufaula
Lake Murray State Park Carter, Love Template:Convert 1938 Lake Murray Added to National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
Lake Texoma State Park Marshall Template:Convert 1951 Lake Texoma
Lake Thunderbird State Park Cleveland Template:Convert 1965 Lake Thunderbird
Lake Wister State Park Le Flore Template:Convert 1953 Lake Wister
Little Sahara State Park Woods Template:Convert 1959
McGee Creek State Park Atoka Template:Convert McGee Creek Reservoir
Natural Falls State Park Delaware Template:Convert 1990
Osage Hills State Park Osage Template:Convert 1935
Quartz Mountain State Park Greer Template:Convert 1935 Lake Altus
Raymond Gary State Park Choctaw Template:Convert 1955 Raymond Gary Lake
Robbers Cave State Park Latimer Template:Convert 1935 Fourche Maline, Lake Carlton, Lake Wayne Wallace
Roman Nose State Park Blaine 1937 Lake Watonga, Lake Boecher
Sequoyah Bay State Park Wagoner Template:Convert 1954 Fort Gibson Lake
Sequoyah State Park Cherokee Template:Convert 1953 Fort Gibson Lake Park formerly known as Western Hills State Park
Spavinaw State Park Mayes Template:Convert 1959 Spavinaw Lake Now known as the Spavinaw Area at Grand Lake State Park.<ref name=Spavinaw>Template:Cite web</ref>
Talimena State Park Le Flore Template:Convert 1970
Tenkiller State Park Sequoyah Template:Convert 1953 Lake Tenkiller
Twin Bridges State Park Ottawa Template:Convert 1954 Neosho River, Spring River Now known as the Twin Bridges Area at Grand Lake State Park.<ref name=TwinBridges>Template:Cite web</ref>

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.<ref name="wertz">Wertz, Joe. "Why It’s Hard to Privatize and Move State Parks." September 2, 2011. Retrieved April 8, 2013.[1]</ref>
Beaver Dunes Park Beaver 520 Owned by City of Beaver.<ref name = "wertz"/>
Boggy Depot Park Atoka 630 Owned and managed by the Chickasaw Nation since 2011.<ref name = "wertz"/>
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.<ref name = "wertz"/>
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;<ref name="wertz" /> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Walnut Creek State Park Osage 1,429 1966 Keystone Lake Park was permanently closed October 1, 2014<ref>Logan, Layden, " Uncertainty Looms Over Walnut Creek’s Somber Final Weekend As A State Park." October 2, 2014. Accessed August 3, 2017.</ref>
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;<ref name = "wertz"/> subleased since 2015 to the non-profit Hulah Lake Osage Association which maintains the park through volunteer efforts and campground fees.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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