Special Notices
Crowley's Ridge State Park
The park is open. However, the park's Amphitheater Trail and some of the access trails remain closed due to extensive tree damage from the ice storm that struck northern Arkansas in late January. Contact the park at 870-573-6751 for updates.
Lake Poinsett State Park
Lake Poinsett State Park is open. However, the park's Great Blue Heron Trail remains closed while cleanup activities continue to ensure public safety when it reopens following tree damage from the ice storm that struck northern Arkansas in late January. Contact the park at 870-578-2064 for updates.
Lake Charles State Park
Lake Charles State Park's Mockernut Trail remains closed due to extensive tree damage from the ice storm that struck northern Arkansas in late-January. All of the other trails in the park have reopened as of June 30. Contact the park at 870-878-6595 for updates.
Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area
The following facilities and trails are open at Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area: the park visitor center; the public shooting range; eight-and-one-half-mile Pigeon Roost Trail; one-and-one-half mile Shaddox Hollow Nature Trail; one-half-mile Historic Van Winkle Trail; and the three-mile Bashore Loop, nine-mile Little Clifty Loop and three-mile Dutton Hollow loop of the Hidden Diversity Multi-Use Trail. NOTE: The main parking lot on Townsend Ridge Road for the Hidden Diversity Multi-use Trail has reopened.
Still closed due to extensive tree damage from the ice storm that struck northern Arkansas in late January is the six-mile War Eagle Loop of the Hidden Diversity Multi-Use Trail. Contact the park at 479-789-5000 for updates.
Devil's Den State Park
As of May 27, Farmer's Cave and Big Ear Cave, two of the lesser known caves in Devil's Den State Park, are closed to the public. These emergency closures were necessary in an effort to protect these two caves from the possibility of contamination from the White Nose Syndrome, a fungus that has killed millions of bats in the eastern U.S. The disease is transmitted bat to bat. It is believed that climbers moving their gear from cave to cave and state to state are spreading spores from the fungus. All other caves in Devil's Den State Park remain open to cavers. For more information about these two cave closures, visit:
www.arkansasstateparks.com/news/for-media/display.aspx?id=1156
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