Arkansas State Parks Calendar of Events
Are you looking for fun activities during your visit to an Arkansas State Park? Our park interpreters routinely schedule fun, family-friendly programs that are designed to help you have a more meaningful park experience and make memories of a lifetime. We offer more than 50,000 activities each year, including guided hikes, lake tours on park boats, birding adventures, kayak tours, living history demonstrations, nature games, historic site tours, bald eagle watches, spring wildflower walks, campfires, outdoor skills workshops, A.D.E.-accredited teacher professional development, and much more — there’s something going on all the time.
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The dates, details, and admission prices in this calendar of events were submitted to the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism and are accurate to the best of our knowledge. We recommend that you check with local sponsors before making a trip to any event.
Friday, April 16, 2021
/ 11 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Spies played an important role for both the Federal and Confederate armies during the Civil War. Through covert operations, both male and female spies gathered intelligence about troop…
Friday, April 16, 2021 - Saturday, April 17, 2021
/ 3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Join a park interpreter for a guided tour of one of the nation's most intact Civil War battlefields! Lasting approximately one hour, visitors will explore battle lines across the eastern portion of…
Saturday, April 17, 2021
/ 4:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Join a park interpreter to uncover the Victorian concept of
the “good death” and the transformation of life and death wrought by the Civil
War. While all are welcome, this program…
Friday, April 23, 2021
/ 11 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Soldier accounts of the Battle of Prairie Grove provide lots of clues about what the
landscape, people, and community of Prairie Grove looked like in 1862. Join a
park interpreter to continue this…
Friday, April 23, 2021 - Saturday, April 24, 2021
/ 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Join a park interpreter for a guided tour of one of the nation's most intact Civil War battlefields! Lasting approximately one hour, visitors will explore battle lines across the eastern portion of…
Saturday, April 24, 2021
/ 4:15 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Battlefield communication during the Civil War looked very different than it does today. Join park interpreters to see if you can crack the code by sending and receiving secret messages…
Friday, April 30, 2021
/ 3 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
We’ve all gone to school in some way – public, private, or at home, but what about in a one-room school? Join us inside the one-room school house to experience life as a student or…
Friday, April 30, 2021
/ 10 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Meet a park interpreter to explore the role of battlefield archaeology in telling the story of the Battle of Prairie Grove. We will discuss what archeologists do, past projects here at the park,…
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