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Crater of Diamonds State Park is a 911-acre (369 ha) Arkansas state park in Pike County, Arkansas, in the United States. The park features a 37.5-acre (15.2-hectare) plowed field, one of the few diamond -bearing sites accessible to the public. Diamonds have been discovered in the field continuously since 1906, including the graded-perfect ...
Highway 7 (AR 7, Ark. 7, Hwy. 7, and partially Scenic 7 Byway) is a north–south state highway that runs across the state of Arkansas. As Arkansas's longest state highway, the route runs 297.27 miles (478.41 km) from the Louisiana state line north to Bull Shoals Lake in Diamond City near the Missouri state line.
Blanchard Springs Caverns is a three-level cave system, all of which can be viewed on guided tours. The Dripstone Trail runs through the uppermost level of caverns for about a 0.5 miles (0.80 km) and opened in 1973. [2] The Discovery Trail opened in 1977 and loops through a 1.2 miles (1.9 km) section of the cavern, descending to the lower level ...
Discovery date: March 4, 2023. David Anderson, who lives in Murfreesboro, found a 3.29-carat brown diamond while wet-sifting soil in March 2023. The diamond was the largest found at the park since ...
Devil's Den State Park. Devil's Den State Park is a 2,500-acre (1,000 ha) Arkansas state park in Washington County, near West Fork, Arkansas in the United States. The park was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, beginning in 1933. Devil's Den State Park is in the Lee Creek Valley in the Boston Mountains, which are the southwestern part of ...
Show cave opened. c. 1928. Mystic Caverns and Crystal Dome are former show caves located between the cities of Jasper and Harrison, in the state of Arkansas, U.S., on the Arkansas Highway 7 Scenic Byway near the defunct amusement park Dogpatch USA. Sometimes called "the twin caves" because they are within 400 feet (120 m) of each other, the two ...
Caney Creek Wilderness. The Caney Creek Wilderness is a rugged 14,460-acre (58.5 km 2) segment of the Ouachita National Forest near the mountain town of Mena, Arkansas. [2] It was designated by Congress in 1975 as the first wilderness area in Arkansas. The wilderness' main drainage and namesake, Caney Creek, winds through old-growth bottomland ...
It contains the landmarks designated by the U.S. Federal Government for the U.S. state of Arkansas. There are 17 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Arkansas. Another NHL was formerly listed in the state but was moved to Oakland, California. This page includes a list of National Park Service-administered historic areas in Arkansas.