This is a list of current and former state parks in Oklahoma.
Current parks Park Name County or Counties Area in acres Area in ha Year Established Water Body(s)Remarks Alabaster Caverns State Park Woodward 1956 Largest public gypsum cave in the United StatesArrowhead State Park Pittsburg 1963 Lake Eufaula On a peninsula in Lake Eufaula. Lodge and cabins are closed. Now known as Arrowhead Area at Lake Eufaula State Park.Beavers Bend State Park McCurtain 1935 Mountain Fork River, Broken Bow Lake Bernice State Park Delaware 1970 Grand Lake o' the Cherokees Now known as the Bernice Area at Grand Lake State Park.Black Mesa State Park Cimarron 1959 Lake Carl Etling Black Mesa Nature Preserve established in 1991 by the Oklahoma Nature Conservancies Boiling Springs State Park Woodward 1935 Cherokee Landing State Park Cherokee 1954 Lake Tenkiller Cherokee State Park Mayes 1954 Grand Lake o' the Cherokees Clayton Lake State Park Pushmataha 1947 Clayton Lake Disney/Little Blue State Park Mayes 1966 Grand Lake Fort Cobb State Park Caddo 1960 Fort Cobb Foss State Park Washita 1961 Foss Lake Gloss Mountain State Park Major 1977 Great Plains State Park Kiowa 1977 Tom Steed Reservoir Great Salt Plains State Park Alfalfa 1952 Great Salt Plains Lake Greenleaf State Park Muskogee 1954 Greenleaf Lake Honey Creek State Park Delaware 1954 Grand Lake Now known as the Honey Creek Area at Grand Lake State Park.Keystone State Park Tulsa 1966 Keystone Lake Lake Eufaula State Park McIntosh 1963 Lake Eufaula Lake Murray State Park Carter, Love 1938 Lake Murray Added to National Register of Historic Places in 2001. Lake Texoma State Park Marshall 1951 Lake Texoma Lake Thunderbird State Park Cleveland 1965 Lake Thunderbird Lake Wister State Park Le Flore 1953 Lake Wister Little Sahara State Park Woods 1959 McGee Creek State Park Atoka McGee Creek Reservoir Natural Falls State Park Delaware 1990 Osage Hills State Park Osage 1935 Quartz Mountain State Park Greer 1935 Lake Altus Raymond Gary State Park Choctaw 1955 Raymond Gary Lake Robbers Cave State Park Latimer 1935 Fourche Maline, Lake Carlton, Lake Wayne Wallace Roman Nose State Park Blaine 1937 Lake Watonga, Lake Boecher Sequoyah Bay State Park Wagoner 1954 Fort Gibson Lake Sequoyah State ParkCherokee 1953 Fort Gibson Lake Park formerly known as Western Hills State Park Spavinaw State Park Mayes 1959 Spavinaw Lake Now known as the Spavinaw Area at Grand Lake State Park.Talimena State Park Le Flore 1970 Tenkiller State Park Sequoyah 1953 Lake Tenkiller Twin Bridges State Park Ottawa 1954 Neosho River, Spring River Now known as the Twin Bridges Area at Grand Lake State Park.
Former state parks Park Name County or Counties Area in acres Date founded Stream(s) and / or Lake(s) Notes Adair Park (Stilwell, Oklahoma) Adair 25 Small park within the city limits of Stilwell. Now owned by the City of Stilwell.Wertz, Joe. "Why It’s Hard to Privatize and Move State Parks." September 2, 2011. Retrieved April 8, 2013. Beaver Dunes Park Beaver 520 Owned by City of Beaver. Boggy Depot Park Atoka 630 Owned and managed by the Chickasaw Nation since 2011. Brushy Lake Park Sequoyah 90 1971 Brushy Lake Since 2011, owned and managed by the City of Sallisaw, Oklahoma Crowder Lake University Park Washita 22 Crowder Lake Owned and operated since 2003 by Southwestern Oklahoma State University. Lake surface is 158 acres. Dripping Springs Park Okmulgee 1,075 Dripping Springs Lake The former Dripping Springs State Park; operated by the City of Okmulgee since 2015. Heavener Runestone Park Le Flore 50 1970 Owned and managed by city of Heavener since 2011.Hochatown State Park McCurtain 1,713 1966 Broken Bow Lake Combined into Beavers Bend, no longer a separate parkHugo Lake State ParkChoctaw 289 1974 Hugo LakeOriginally built in 1974 as Kiamichi Park, renamed Hugo Lake State Park in 2002. Lake Eucha Park Delaware 55 1967 Lake Eucha The former Lake Eucha State Park; owned and managed by the city of Tulsa since 2011; Park is not actually on Lake Eucha Okmulgee Park Okmulgee 1,075 1963 Okmulgee Lake The former Okmulgee State Park; owned and managed by the City of Okmulgee since 2015Red Rock Canyon Park Caddo 310 1956 Leased to the City of Hinton, Oklahoma in 2018.Snowdale State Park Mayes 15 1959 Lake Hudson (Oklahoma) Snowdale became the Snowdale Area at Grand Lake State Park. The Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation chose not to renew its lease from the Grand River Dam Authority in 2019, shutting down the park. Walnut Creek State Park Osage 1,429 1966 Keystone Lake Park was permanently closed October 1, 2014Logan, Layden, " Uncertainty Looms Over Walnut Creek’s Somber Final Weekend As A State Park." October 2, 2014. Accessed August 3, 2017. Wah-Sha-She Park Osage 266 1973 Lake Hulah Formerly Wah-Sha-She State Park. Leased to the Osage Nation since 2011 by the US Corps of Engineers; subleased since 2015 to the non-profit Hulah Lake Osage Association which maintains the park through volunteer efforts and campground fees.
References
State Parks on TravelOK.com Official Travel & Tourism website for the State of Oklahoma