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The Moro Bay ferry is a historic ferry site at Moro Bay State Park in southwestern Bradley County, Arkansas. A ferry operated across the Ouachita River at this site from 1828 until 1948, and then again from 1965 to 1992, providing a major crossing point of the river in the immediate region. The towboat and barge used by the 1965-1992 ferry ...
Responsible body: State. Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park (3 LN 42), formerly known as "Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park", [ 3 ] also known as Knapp Mounds, Toltec Mounds or Toltec Mounds site, is an archaeological site from the Late Woodland period in Arkansas that protects an 18-mound complex with the tallest surviving ...
Moro Bay, Arkansas. Coordinates: 33°18′23″N92°21′02″W33.30639°N 92.35056°W. Not to be confused with Monroe Bay; Moro Gulf; or Morro Bay, California. Moro Bay is an unincorporated community in Bradley County, Arkansas, United States. It stands at an elevation of 89 feet (27 meters) above mean sea level.
Arkansas State Parks. There are 52 state parks in the U.S. state of Arkansas, as of 2019. [1] The state parks division of the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism is the governing body and operator of all parks, although jurisdiction is shared with other state agencies in a few cases. The first Arkansas state park, Petit Jean ...
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.
Description. The Louisiana Purchase State Park is located at the eastern end of Highway 362, southeast of Blackton, Arkansas, at the tripoint junction of Lee, Monroe, and Phillips counties. It is a 37.5-acre (15.2 ha) parcel of swamp, or forested wetlands, which is remarkably unchanged from the time when surveyors came here on November 10, 1815.
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 ...
Mount Magazine State Park is a 2,234-acre park located in Logan County, Arkansas.Inhabited since the 1850s, Mount Magazine first became part of the Ouachita National Forest in 1938, was re-designated as part of the Ozark National Forest in 1941, and became a state park after a 22-year conversion process from the U.S. Forest Service to the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism. [3]