Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism
The Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism is responsible for tourism and the management of fifty-two state parks.
The Arkansas Department of Park and Tourism estimated that 19.9 million in-state and out-of-state visitors spent $3.92 billion dollars in Arkansas in 2002. By 2004 the number of visitors had increased to 21 million, with $4.3 billion spent. The state tax revenue generated by such spending totaled some $238 million. Less than one hundred thousand of those visitors came from other nations. The international tourism market benefited from the opening of the Clinton Library, but still suffers from the lack of an international airport.
The executive director of the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism is Richard Davies.
State parks in the system include:
- Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources
- Arkansas Post Museum
- Bull Shoals-White River State Park
- Burns Park
- Cane Creek State Park
- Conway Cemetery Historic State Park
- Cossatot River State Park-Natural Area
- Crater of Diamonds State Park
- Crowley's Ridge State Park
- Daisy State Park
- DeGray Lake Resort State Park
- Delta Heritage Trail State Park
- Devil's Den State Park
- Hampson Museum State Park
- Herman Davis State Park
- Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area
- Jacksonport State Park
- Jenkins' Ferry State Park
- Lake Catherine State Park
- Lake Charles State Park
- Lake Chicot State Park
- Lake Dardanelle State Park
- Lake Fort Smith State Park
- Lake Frierson State Park
- Lake Ouachita State Park
- Lake Poinsett State Park
- Logoly State Park
- Louisiana Purchase State Park
- Lower White River Museum State Park
- Mammoth Spring State Park
- Marks' Mills State Park
- Millwood State Park
- Moro Bay State Park
- Mount Magazine State Park
- Mount Nebo State Park
- Old Davidsonville State Park
- Old Washington Historic State Park
- Ozark Folk Center State Park
- Parkin Archeological State Park
- Petit Jean State Park
- Pinnacle Mountain State Park
- Plantation Agriculture Museum
- Poison Spring State Park
- Powhatan Courthouse State Park
- Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park
- Queen Wilhelmina State Park
- South Arkansas Arboretum
- Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park
- Village Creek State Park
- White Oak Lake State Park
- Withrow Springs State Park
- Woolly Hollow State Park
References
- Carl D. Holcombe, "Little Rock Begins Trolling for UK Tourists," Arkansas Business, March 8, 2004.
