List of Oklahoma state parks

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

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	citation	CitationClass=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	citation	CitationClass=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	citation	CitationClass=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	citation	CitationClass=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)	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

References

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