White Oak Lake State Park

Reservoir in Arkansas, United States

33°42′07″N 93°05′26″W / 33.70194°N 93.09056°W / 33.70194; -93.09056 (White Oak Lake)Lake typereservoirBasin countriesUnited StatesSurface area2,776 acres (1,123 ha)Surface elevation197 ft (60 m)

White Oak Lake State Park is a state park in the southwest of the U.S. state of Arkansas, a few miles from Bluff City. The reservoir sits surrounded by tall pine trees, giving it a rich, wooded beauty. The state park offers camping facilities, hiking and mountain biking trails, boat and bicycle rentals, as well as playground facilities.

Because White Oak Lake was created in a woodland area, the lake features many submerged dead trees. These serve as excellent cover for bass, crappie, and bream, all of which are reasonably abundant in the lake. Catfish also thrive at the lake.

The park features hiking trails of easy to moderate difficulty, of which the Beech Ridge and Silver Maples trails give a good understanding of the "West Gulf Coastal Plain forest" setting. Deer and heron sightings are common at the park, while some bald eagles winter there.

White Oak Lake is reasonably popular with local residents, but its location in a part of Arkansas with few tourists keeps it from undue crowding or traffic. White Oak Lake is near the Poison Springs Battleground State Park, a Civil War battlefield.

Completed in 1961, the lake is 19 miles southeast of Prescott, and 15 miles northwest of Camden, off State Highways 387 and 24. It is the second largest lake created by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission,^[1] at 1,656 acres (670 ha).

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to White Oak Lake State Park.

Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism: Official White Oak Lake State Park website

References

^ "AGFC | Lake Information and Maps". Archived from the original on April 23, 2012.

33°41′22.2″N 93°6′51.9″W / 33.689500°N 93.114417°W / 33.689500; -93.114417

Protected areas in Arkansas

Federal

National Park	Hot Springs
National Historic Sites	Fort Smith Little Rock Central High School President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home
National Forests	Ouachita Ozark–St. Francis
National Memorial	Arkansas Post
National Military Park	Pea Ridge
National River	Buffalo
National Wildlife Refuges	Bald Knob Big Lake Cache River Felsenthal Holla Bend Logan Cave Overflow Pond Creek Wapanocca White River
Wilderness Areas	Big Lake Black Fork Mountain Buffalo National River Caney Creek Dry Creek East Fork Flatside Hurricane Creek Leatherwood Poteau Mountain Richland Creek Upper Buffalo
National Wild and Scenic Rivers	Big Piney Creek Cossatot Hurricane Creek Little Missouri Mulberry North Sylamore Creek Richland Creek

State

State Parks	Arkansas Post Museum Bull Shoals-White River Cane Creek Conway Cemetery Cossatot River Crater of Diamonds Crowley's Ridge Daisy Davidsonville DeGray Lake Delta Heritage Trail Devil's Den Hampson Archeological Museum Herman Davis Historic Washington Hobbs Jacksonport Jenkins' Ferry Battleground Lake Hamilton and Lake Catherine Lake Charles Lake Chicot Lake Dardanelle Lake Fort Smith Lake Frierson Lake Ouachita Lake Poinsett Logoly Louisiana Purchase Lower White River Museum Mammoth Spring Marks' Mills Battleground Millwood Mississippi River Moro Bay Mount Magazine Mount Nebo Museum of Natural Resources Ozark Folk Center Parkin Mounds Petit Jean Pinnacle Mountain Plantation Agriculture Museum Plum Bayou Mounds Poison Springs Battleground Powhatan Prairie Grove Battlefield Queen Wilhelmina South Arkansas Arboretum Village Creek White Oak Lake Withrow Springs Woolly Hollow
State Forest	Poison Springs State Forest
Wildlife Management Areas	List