Arkansas State Parks Trip Ideas Park Crater of Diamonds Region Southwest Park Activity Diamond Digging Trail Type Trail Difficulty Author Chris Adams Megan Ayres Moore [X] Tayler Markham Date Published July 2025 May 2025 August 2024 July 2024 May 2024 March 2024 February 2024 November 2023 September 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 December 2022 [X] November 2022 September 2022 June 2022 November 2020 July 2020 Visitor Finds 1.90-Carat Diamond at Crater of Diamonds State Park Nov 2022 ⁄ Tayler Markham Seth and Jessica Erickson, of Chatfield, MN, recently embarked on an 11-state road trip for their tenth anniversary. Having first heard about Arkansas’s Crater of Diamonds State Park years ago, they planned a special stop at America’s only public diamond mine along the way. On the morning of their visit, the couple found a brown diamond weighing nearly two carats.
Visitor Finds 1.90-Carat Diamond at Crater of Diamonds State Park Nov 2022 ⁄ Tayler Markham Seth and Jessica Erickson, of Chatfield, MN, recently embarked on an 11-state road trip for their tenth anniversary. Having first heard about Arkansas’s Crater of Diamonds State Park years ago, they planned a special stop at America’s only public diamond mine along the way. On the morning of their visit, the couple found a brown diamond weighing nearly two carats.