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Arkansas State Parks Trip Ideas

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  • Amy Griffin
  • Arkansas State Parks Staff

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The Natural State’s Archeological State Parks

Mar 2023
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Arkansas State Parks Staff

Arkansas state parks are home to American Indian mounds, steamboat welcoming towns, and Civilian Conservation Corps campgrounds. All of them offer a unique perspective into the history of The Natural State and make for thought-provoking road trips. Crank up your tunes, put on your sunglasses, and wind your way through roads lined with oak trees growing alongside Arkansas’s...

Clay face pot at Parkin Archeological State Park exhibit

Connecting to a Prehistoric People   

Jun 2020
  ⁄  
Amy Griffin

Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park in Scott, Arkansas is a unique American Indian mound complex that was the cultural center of the Plum Bayou people, who interacted with their environment and each other much as we do today. The Plum Bayou people are a group of prehistoric American Indian mound builders who lived here between 650 – 1050 AD. They built one of the...

Sun setting over a mound at Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park
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