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Amicalola Falls State Park
Amicalola Falls State Park is a Georgia state park in Dawson County, established 1940, home to the 729-foot Amicalola Falls, the highest cascading waterfall east of the Mississippi, and the start of the Appalachian Approach Trail.
Assateague State Park
Assateague State Park is Maryland's only oceanfront state park, on Assateague Island's northern two miles, opened in 1965 with 345 beachside campsites, lifeguarded swimming, and wild horses.
Beavers Bend Resort Park
Beavers Bend Resort Park, also called Beavers Bend State Park, is a 3,482-acre Oklahoma state park near Broken Bow on Broken Bow Lake and the Mountain Fork River, established 1937 with CCC structures, 47 cabins, 393 campsites, and a mostly Texan visitor base.
Blackwater Falls State Park
Blackwater Falls State Park, in Tucker County near Davis, West Virginia, centers on a 57-foot amber cascade on the Blackwater River. Established 1937, it offers a 51-room lodge, 39 cabins, 65 campsites, 20 miles of trails, and the East Coast's longest sledding magic carpet.
Breaks Interstate Park
Breaks Interstate Park, the Breaks, is a bi-state Kentucky–Virginia park established 1954, one of only two US interstate parks, centered on the five-mile Breaks Canyon of the Russell Fork, the Grand Canyon of the South.
Burgess Falls State Park
Burgess Falls State Park, also Burgess Falls State Natural Area, is a day-use Tennessee state park in Putnam and White Counties where the Falling Water River drops nearly 250 feet over three waterfalls, the last plunging more than 130 feet.
Cape Henlopen State Park
Cape Henlopen State Park is a 5,000-plus-acre Delaware state park at Lewes where Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic, built on the former Fort Miles WWII coastal defense site, with six miles of shoreline, 19.3 miles of trails, and seasonal closures at The Point for nesting piping plovers.
Cass Scenic Railroad State Park
Cass Scenic Railroad State Park, Cass, West Virginia: a state park preserving an 11-mile logging railroad and company town founded in 1901, with Shay geared steam locomotives climbing to Bald Knob, 4,842 feet, West Virginia's third highest peak.
Cathedral Caverns State Park
Cathedral Caverns State Park, near Grant in Marshall County, Alabama, is a show cave state park opened in 2000, known for its 128-foot-wide entrance, the Goliath stalagmite (45 feet tall, 243 feet around), and Mystery River.
Cheaha State Park
Cheaha State Park, established 1933, is Alabama's oldest continuously operating state park, a 2,799-acre park on Cheaha Mountain, the state's highest point at 2,407 feet, with CCC-era stone structures and Cheaha Lake.
Chicot State Park
Chicot State Park: 6,400-acre Louisiana state park near Ville Platte, Evangeline Parish, established 1939; largest in the state system, on 1,643-acre Lake Chicot, with a 20-mile loop trail and the Louisiana State Arboretum.
Crater of Diamonds State Park
Crater of Diamonds State Park, near Murfreesboro, Arkansas, is the world's only public diamond search site on its original volcanic source, a 37-acre field on the Prairie Creek lamproite pipe with a finders-keepers policy and over 37,000 diamonds found since 1972.
Cumberland Falls State Resort Park
Cumberland Falls State Resort Park, near Corbin, Kentucky, is a state resort park around the 125-foot Cumberland Falls, known for its regular moonbow, CCC-era origins, DuPont Lodge, campgrounds, and a dedicated 1,294-acre nature preserve.
Cunningham Falls State Park
Cunningham Falls State Park is a Maryland park near Thurmont in the Catoctin Mountains, created in 1954 and home to the state's highest cascading waterfall.
Davis Mountains State Park
Davis Mountains State Park is a 2,708-acre Texas state park two miles west of Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County, established in 1933 and developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Fall Creek Falls State Park
Fall Creek Falls State Park, a Tennessee resort park in Bledsoe and Van Buren counties on the Cumberland Plateau, holds the 256-foot Fall Creek Falls, the highest waterfall east of the Rocky Mountains, plus CCC/WPA-era history, 226 campsites, and a lodge.
First Landing State Park
First Landing State Park, formerly Seashore State Park, is a 2,888-acre Virginia state park at Cape Henry in Virginia Beach, named for the Virginia Company colonists who first landed there in 1607.
Fontainebleau State Park
Fontainebleau State Park is a 2,800-acre Louisiana state park in Mandeville on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, known for its sandy beach and 1829 sugar mill ruins.
Frozen Head State Park
Frozen Head State Park, also known as Frozen Head State Natural Area, is a park in the Cumberland Mountains of Morgan County, Tennessee, named for Frozen Head Mountain.
Garner State Park
Garner State Park: Texas state park on the Frio River near Concan, Uvalde County, named for Vice President John Nance Garner; built by CCC Company 879 (1935–1941), dedicated June 1, 1941; 1,774 acres, 2.9 river miles, most-visited Texas state park.
Grandfather Mountain
Grandfather Mountain is a 5,946-foot Blue Ridge peak in western North Carolina, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve with a free state park and a separate private attraction featuring the Mile High Swinging Bridge.
Grayson Highlands State Park
Grayson Highlands State Park, originally Mount Rogers State Park, is a 4,520-acre Virginia park established in 1965 near Mount Rogers, with wild ponies, grassy balds, Appalachian Trail access, and over 96 campsites.
Hunting Island State Park
Hunting Island State Park is a 5,000-acre barrier-island park near Beaufort, South Carolina, the state's most popular park, with five miles of beach, the 1875 cast-iron Hunting Island Lighthouse, and severe coastal erosion.
Huntington Beach State Park
Huntington Beach State Park is a 2,500-acre South Carolina state park in Murrells Inlet, south of Myrtle Beach, combining Atlantic beach, salt marsh, and the historic Moorish home Atalaya.
Lake Fausse Pointe State Park
Lake Fausse Pointe State Park, a 6,000-acre Louisiana park established 1986 in the Atchafalaya Basin near St. Martinville, offers waterfront cabins, canoe trails, and camping outside the West Atchafalaya Protection Levee.
Lake Murray (Oklahoma)
Lake Murray, Oklahoma: man-made reservoir near Ardmore in Carter and Love counties, formed by damming Fourche Maline and Anadarche creeks; center of Oklahoma's first and largest state park, built by New Deal agencies.
Lums Pond State Park
Lums Pond State Park, in Bear, New Castle County, Delaware, centers on Lums Pond, the state's largest freshwater pond at 200 acres. Created as a millpond in the 1730s and later feeding the C&D Canal's Summit lock, the 1,790-acre park opened in 1966 with camping, trails, boating, and a treetop adventure course.
My Old Kentucky Home State Park
My Old Kentucky Home State Park in Bardstown, Kentucky, preserves Federal Hill, the Rowan mansion tied to Stephen Foster's 1853 state song; features mansion tours, golf, the Stephen Foster Story, and a renovated 39-site campground.
Natural Bridge State Resort Park
Natural Bridge State Resort Park, one of Kentucky's four original state parks, is a forested park in Powell County whose centerpiece is a 78-foot natural sandstone arch.
Oak Mountain State Park
Oak Mountain State Park in Pelham, Alabama, near Birmingham, is the state's largest state park, established 1927, with 100+ miles of trails, Peavine Falls, golf, camping, and the Alabama Wildlife Center.