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Kayaking at Lake Charles State Park

Arkansas State Parks Trip Ideas

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  • Crater of Diamonds
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  • Upper Delta
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  • Cathy Combs
  • Sasha Bowles

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Video: The Creek Speaks

Dec 2021
  ⁄  
Cathy Combs

The multi-use trails at Village Creek State Park offer many opportunities to discover the beauty of Crowley’s Ridge. Village Creek State Park, located in eastern Arkansas just 40 miles of Memphis, has a mission of connecting visitors with a unique feature of the Delta: Crowley’s Ridge. The park offers over 33 miles of trails through ridge tops, ravines, and valleys.

Village Creek with green trees around the banks

Trail of Tears Across Arkansas State Parks

Mar 2021
  ⁄  
Sasha Bowles

Arkansas has hundreds of miles of the Trail of Tears, and of the nine states traversed by the trail, is the only state that witnessed the removal of all five of the Southeastern tribes as they moved west. Arkansas State Parks has five parks that lie along these removal routes. These parks have been certified as National Park Service Trail of Tears National Historic Trail...

Petit Jean State Park
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