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Kayaking at Lake Charles State Park

Arkansas State Parks Trip Ideas

Park

  • Lake Dardanelle
  • Logoly

Region

  • North Central
  • Southwest

Park Activity

Trail Type

Trail Difficulty

Author

  • Bonnie Marberry
  • Chris Pistole
  • Grady Spann
  • Heather Johnson
  • Jackie Rupp
  • Jason Baumgartner
  • Jeanette Larson
  • Jenn Menge
  • Jonathan Wirges
  • Kayla Gomance
  • Kristina Root
  • Kylee Cole
  • Ryan Smith
  • Zachary Fisher
  • [X] Haley Johnson
  • [X] Megan Ayres Moore

Date Published

  • November 2022
  • February 2021
  • November 2020
  • [X] May 2020
  • April 2020
  • September 2016

Standout Butterflies at Logoly State Park

May 2020
  ⁄  
Haley Johnson

Logoly State Park in southwest Arkansas is the state’s first ecological state park dedicated to protecting the dynamically diverse ecosystem of the West Gulf Coastal Plain. The butterflies here are worthy of study and those with a keen eye can capture their beauty. Come mid-March and early April in Arkansas, butterflies begin emerging from their cocoon-like chrysalis...

Red-spotted purple butterfly at Logoly State Park

Photo Essay: Life Below Lake Dardanelle

May 2020
  ⁄  
Megan Ayres Moore

What lives in a lake? If you are like most of us, your first thoughts were fish, snakes, and turtles. Believe it or not, that’s only a small part of the life below Lake Dardanelle!

damslefly nymph
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