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State Parks with year-round, full service restaurant/banquet facilities:
- Petit Jean State Park: Mather Lodge Restaurant
- DeGray Lake Resort State Park: Shoreline Restaurant
- Ozark Folk Center: The Skillet Restaurant
- Mt. Magazine State Park: Skycrest Restaurant
- Queen Wilhelmina State Park: The Queen's Restaurant
- Historic Washington State Park: Williams Tavern
Phone: 501-727-5431, Fax: 501-727-5479, Email:
petitjean@arkansas.com
Seating Capacity of restaurant: 180 -- It provides a breathtaking view of Cedar Falls Canyon.
Type of Service: Menu, buffets, catering
Menu features Southern cooking for the Park's campers, lodge guests, travelers, small groups. The park's overnight accommodations include 24-room Mather Lodge and the 32 cabins situated near the lodge.
Civilian Conservation Corps Dining Room: Located adjacent to the lodge lobby, this captivating room features walls of native logs and native stone, and tables and chairs, all hand-crafted by the men who served at Petit Jean's CCC camp in the early 1930s. A wood-burning fireplace makes this room especially cozy during fall and winter months. The CCC room can accommodate 30 to 35 people and is ideal for meetings, meals, & receptions.
Phone: 479-963-8502, Fax: 479-963-1031, Email: mountmagazine@arkansas.com
The park's magnificent 60-room Lodge at Mount Magazine, 13 park cabins and the rustic Skycrest Restaurant opened in May 2006. Featuring breathtaking views from Mount Magazine's south bluff, these first-class facilities include a grand lobby to welcome guests, an indoor swimming pool, conference center, meeting rooms, fitness center and gift shop. Thirteen full-service cabins with fireplaces, a bathroom for each bedroom, and wrap-around covered porches with outdoor hot tubs. All lodging facilities have views of the Petit Jean River Valley and Blue Mountain Lake below.
Skillet Restaurant, Ozark Folk Center, Mountain View, Arkansas
Phone: 870-269-3851 or by e-mail at ozarkfolkcenter@arkansas.com
Located in the beautiful Ozark Foothills, our facility combines the best of professional amenities with a relaxed informal family atmosphere for which we are famous. From 20 to 200, the Ozark Folk Center is the ideal spot to hold your next Meeting, Reunion, Convention or Get-Together. Cozy comfort is at The Cabins at Dry Creek, southern cooking made right from the Skillet Restaurant.
- 60 resort-quality rooms
- 150 seat small auditorium with hinged desk tops for note taking
- Three break-out rooms seating up to 25 persons in each room
- Complimentary audio-visual equipment
- 1,000 seat large theater auditorium
- Skillet Restaurant, cookouts, box lunch, formal banquets, we do it all
- Two private dining area (one seating 25 and the other seating 50)
- Main public dining room available for private arrangements during the off-season which seats approximately 100
Phone: 501-865-2851, Fax: 501-865-2880, Email: degray@arkansas.com
Seating Capacity: 125
Type of Service: Buffet, Menu
DeGray Lake Resort State Park Lodge stretches along the shoreline of the island on which it is located. The 96-room lodge, and its convention center can serve groups of 10 to 350 persons. Shoreline Restaurant is a full service, year around food service facility handling lodge guests as well as many special events such as weddings, family reunions, corporate meetings and retreats.
Phone: 870-983-2898, Fax: 870-983-2736, Email: historicwashington@arkansas.com
Seating Capacity: 72
Type of Service: Buffet, Menu. Southern country cuisine including period menu items is served daily for lunch in an 1832 tavern.
Historic Washington is a lovely, peaceful tree-shaded town in and one of the most amazing historic places in Arkansas that you'll want to experience. Here you will time travel back to the 19th century as you stroll the plank board sidewalks alongside streets that have never been paved, and tour the historic public buildings and former residences. Established in 1824, the town of Washington today is one of America's premier historic villages, National Historical Landmark and a National Register of Historic Places site.
Phone: 479-394-2863, Fax: 479-394-0061, Email: queenwilhelmina@arkansas.com
Restaurant Seating Capacity: 100
Type of Service: Menu and buffets
A spectacular mountaintop setting. Breathtaking panoramic scenery. Royal hospitality. Queen Wilhelmina State Park is this, and more. Queen Wilhelmina Lodge features 38 guest rooms including spacious Queen's Rooms and royal Regent's Rooms, fine Southern fare in the Queen's Restaurant, and a treasure-filled gift shop. Park campsites, trails and overlooks are a short walk from the lodge. Come experience this royal retreat high atop Rich Mountain, Arkansas's second highest peak.
The Queen's Restaurant provides the finest in southern cuisine. The Queen's Restaurant provides a complete array of party trays and meals, for special occasions, including weddings, rehearsal dinners, birthdays, anniversaries, and other celebrations. The Heritage Room, our private dining room, is available for these occasions as well as the outside patio and the Windmill Garden.
Benefits:
- Hourly wage, periodic raises based on performance
- Retirement credits available
- Holiday pay
- Housing provided at some locations
- Special training by staff and food buyers
- Beverage control experience at Mt. Magazine
- Catering and banquet experience
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