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Kayaking at Lake Charles State Park

Arkansas State Parks Trip Ideas

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  • [X] Historic Washington State Park
  • [X] Petit Jean

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  • Chris Adams
  • Zoie Clift

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Rock-climbing at Petit Jean State Park

Nov 2025
  ⁄  
Zoie Clift

Arkansas State Parks, Arkansas Parks and Recreation Foundation, Arkansas Climbers Coalition and other partners have worked together to open a new chapter at Seven Hollows with the development of dedicated rock-climbing routes.

A woman and small child top roping a rock wall share a fist bump at the bottom.

Dr. James Alexander Lafayette Purdom and His Home

Nov 2025
  ⁄  
Chris Adams

Dr. James Alexander Lafayette Purdom was hardly a man who stayed put. A surgeon educated at the University of Pennsylvania, he spent his early life pinballing between Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky. So what finally convinced him to settle down? It was this property in Washington, Arkansas, which he bought in 1843, linking his memory forever to the house that now carries...

Dr. James Alexander Lafayette Purdom and His Home
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