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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Sep 4
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Welcome to the Weekend Social: Museum Tour

Lower White River Museum State Park, 2009 Main Street, Des Arc, AR 72040 United States
Join park staff for a guided tour of the museum and learn about how the White River helped shape Arkansas. The story of the White River is a dramatic and important part of Arkansas history, and early settlers all over Arkansas depended on the river...
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Sep 5
9:00am - 10:00am

Historic Toys and Games

Lower White River Museum State Park, 2009 Main Street, Des Arc, AR 72040 United States
Life wasn’t only about chores and hard work in the pioneer days of Arkansas. People liked to have fun then, too. Discover how kids used to play with historic toys and games. Learn to play “Graces,” “Drop the Clothespin,” and more. This activity is...
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Sep 5
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Making Crowfoot Hooks

Lower White River Museum State Park, 2009 Main Street, Des Arc, AR 72040 United States
For many people living on the White River, fishing up freshwater mussels was how they made their living, and one of the most important tools for fishing up those mussels was the crowfoot hook. Throughout Arkansas’ history, people fished up mussels...
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Sep 7
9:00am - 10:00am

Wash Day

Lower White River Museum State Park, 2009 Main Street, Des Arc, AR 72040 United States
Have you ever wondered how people cleaned their clothes before washing machines? Join us at Lower White River Museum to learn about how people in frontier Arkansas used hard work and ingenuity to do their daily chores by participating in wash day...
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