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An important development in a long range plan to create the Delta Heritage Trail (DHT) will take place this Thursday, October 18th in Arkansas City. The State Parks, Recreation and Travel Commission w...

An updated and expanded Hampson Archeological Museum State Park in northeast Arkansas will open Friday, October 26, 2018, to the public. In years past, the Hampson Museum was housed in a much smaller ...

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism will provide updates on the Lake Bennett Watershed project at Woolly Hollow State Park in Greenb...

Arkansas State Park chefs will partner with Pulaski Technical College Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management Institute to compete in a Top Chef competition on Thursday, February 21, 2...

Arkansas State Parks will conduct a public open house session for the proposed new Visitor Center for Petit Jean State Park. The session will be held on March 5th, 2019 from 4:00pm until 7:00pm at the...

Repairs to the closed Withrow Springs State Park swimming pool will begin in the coming months. Last year, after an engineering investigation found the potential for a catastrophic failure of a suppor...

The dedication of Jacksonport State Park occurred more than a half a century ago, but progress of enhancing this historic public property is not over. Now, it is home to a new, state-of-the-art visito...

Guests of Arkansas State Parks will soon see an improved reservation system available later this month. The parks system has been using two separate products for reservations, but now it will be strea...

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC), along with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will conduct a six-foot drawdown of Lake Chicot to improve the fishery and allow lakeside property owners the...

Arkansas native Ed Thomas has taken the reigns of the Arkansas State Parks law enforcement arm. Thomas has been with the parks system since 2010. Before that, he worked in law enforcement in Baxter Co...