Arkansas State Park Events

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Our interpretive guides routinely schedule fun, family-friendly adventures that are designed to help you have a more meaningful park experience and make memories of a lifetime. We offer more than 15,000 activities each year, including outdoor recreation skills demonstrations and workshops, guided hikes, lake tours on park boats, birding walks, kayak tours, living history activities, nature games, bald eagle watches, spring wildflower walks, campfires, school field trips, and much more — there’s something going on all the time! Use the search filters to view specific parks, dates, or topics.

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Aug 30
2:30pm - 3:00pm

Cotton Ginning Demonstration

Plantation Agriculture Museum, 4815 AR Hwy 161 South, Scott, AR 72142 United States
The cotton gin is a simple tool with a complex story. Discover more about this story as park staff gins cotton on the museum's demonstration gin. Feel the difference in cotton before and after it has been ginned and learn how much work it takes to...
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Sep 4
8:00am - 5:00pm

Great Arkansas Cleanup: Glass Recycling Collection

Plantation Agriculture Museum, 4815 AR Hwy 161 South, Scott, AR 72142 United States
Glass is an infinitely recyclable material, but many curbside recycling programs are unable to accept glass. To bridge the recycling gap, Plantation Agriculture Museum is collecting glass for recycling. Glass jars and bottles can be brought to the...
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Sep 4
11:00am - 11:30am

Folded Together: Origami Cranes

Plantation Agriculture Museum, 4815 AR Hwy 161 South, Scott, AR 72142 United States
At the end of World War II, a group of six Japanese American families who had been held in the Rohwer War Relocation Center moved to a plantation in Scott. With those families were several children who, despite their young age, had already faced many...
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Sep 4
3:00pm - 4:00pm

What is a Museum?

Plantation Agriculture Museum, 4815 AR Hwy 161 South, Scott, AR 72142 United States
Join Plantation Agriculture Museum staff in this program specially designed for children 10 and younger and their families. Together, we'll learn about the important work museums do and practice using museum manners while doing a scavenger hunt in...
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Sep 5
8:00am - 5:00pm

Great Arkansas Cleanup: Glass Recycling Collection

Plantation Agriculture Museum, 4815 AR Hwy 161 South, Scott, AR 72142 United States
Glass is an infinitely recyclable material, but many curbside recycling programs are unable to accept glass. To bridge the recycling gap, Plantation Agriculture Museum is collecting glass for recycling. Glass jars and bottles can be brought to the...
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Sep 5
9:00am - 9:30am

Wild Bird Wander

Plantation Agriculture Museum, 4815 AR Hwy 161 South, Scott, AR 72142 United States
Roam the museum grounds with park staff in a semi-guided walk as we discover what birds make Plantation Agriculture Museum their home.
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Sep 5
11:00am - 12:00pm

Welcome to the Weekend: Tabletops and Trivia

Plantation Agriculture Museum, 4815 AR Hwy 161 South, Scott, AR 72142 United States
Join staff at Plantation Agriculture Museum to celebrate the long weekend with tabletop games and trivia. Participants will have the opportunity to try board games, including Wingspan and Calico, while testing their mettle in an Arkansas trivia...
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Sep 5
2:00pm - 2:30pm

Cotton Ginning Demonstration

Plantation Agriculture Museum, 4815 AR Hwy 161 South, Scott, AR 72142 United States
The cotton gin is a simple tool with a complex story. Discover more about this story as park staff gins cotton on the museum's demonstration gin. Feel the difference in cotton before and after it has been ginned and learn how much work it takes to...
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Sep 6
1:30pm - 2:30pm

If I Ran the Museum

Plantation Agriculture Museum, 4815 AR Hwy 161 South, Scott, AR 72142 United States
Every museum tells a story, join park staff to learn how they do that and how the objects at Plantation Agriculture Museum tell a story. Then use your imagination (and some crayons) to make a brochure for your own dream museum.
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Sep 6
2:30pm - 3:00pm

Cotton Ginning Demonstration

Plantation Agriculture Museum, 4815 AR Hwy 161 South, Scott, AR 72142 United States
The cotton gin is a simple tool with a complex story. Discover more about this story as park staff gins cotton on the museum's demonstration gin. Feel the difference in cotton before and after it has been ginned and learn how much work it takes to...
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Sep 6
3:30pm - 4:00pm

Weather the Weather

Plantation Agriculture Museum, 4815 AR Hwy 161 South, Scott, AR 72142 United States
The weather impacts almost everything around us from what we choose to wear to the farms that grow our food. Join park staff to learn about the weather that cotton needs to grow. Together, we'll create our own personal weather journals and discover...
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Sep 7
10:00am - 10:30am

Cotton Ginning Demonstration

Plantation Agriculture Museum, 4815 AR Hwy 161 South, Scott, AR 72142 United States
The cotton gin is a simple tool with a complex story. Discover more about this story as park staff gins cotton on the museum's demonstration gin. Feel the difference in cotton before and after it has been ginned and learn how much work it takes to...
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Sep 7
11:00am - 11:30am

Let's Play: Historic Games

Plantation Agriculture Museum, 4815 AR Hwy 161 South, Scott, AR 72142 United States
For the children of sharecroppers and tenant farmers in the early 20th century, games might’ve looked quite a bit different than the ones kids play today. Join park staff at the museum to learn about the games of the past in the best way we know how...
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Sep 9
8:00am - 5:00pm

Great Arkansas Cleanup: Glass Recycling Collection

Plantation Agriculture Museum, 4815 AR Hwy 161 South, Scott, AR 72142 United States
Glass is an infinitely recyclable material, but many curbside recycling programs are unable to accept glass. To bridge the recycling gap, Plantation Agriculture Museum is collecting glass for recycling. Glass jars and bottles can be brought to the...
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Sep 10
8:00am - 5:00pm

Great Arkansas Cleanup: Glass Recycling Collection

Plantation Agriculture Museum, 4815 AR Hwy 161 South, Scott, AR 72142 United States
Glass is an infinitely recyclable material, but many curbside recycling programs are unable to accept glass. To bridge the recycling gap, Plantation Agriculture Museum is collecting glass for recycling. Glass jars and bottles can be brought to the...
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