OKMULGEE LAKE STATE PARK
The Okmulgee Lake State Park has two great lakes: Okmulgee with 672 acres and Dripping Springs which is 1050 acres. That is why this state park is also known as Dripping Springs State Park. It is famous for being a place where a rare coral called “button” is found. The park has a gift shop where visitors can only view sample fossils of this rare coral.
200 to 350 million years ago, this state park was part of a shallow, muddy inland sea. The rock formations throughout the park were formed during the Pennsylvanian Period of geologic history. This is why the rare coral can be found in this area. The name Okmulgee means “bubbling spring” named by the Muscogee nation that settled during the 1830’s after they relocated from Alabama and Georgia.
Okmulgee State Park was developed in 1963 when the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department took over management of 535 acres of parkland from the City of Okmulgee. The park expanded in 1988 when the 245 acre Dripping Springs Lake area was leased from the City of Okmulgee. Dripping Springs Lake was designated Oklahoma’s first “Trophy Bass Lake”.
The park offers recreation facilities such as camping grounds and picnic sites ideal for families and friends to enjoy. They offer a wide space for group activities as well. The State Park offers more than 195 beautiful campsites in five different campgrounds. All of them are lakeside which makes it a perfect place to enjoy the outdoors and the water. Plus there are 5 comfort stations located around the park for your convenience. So you don’t really have to worry about taking a break for a call of nature.
If you want to bring along your tent, Okmulgee Park offers 6 tent sites in the Hickory Point area; 15 fin Red Oak Camping Area; 30 tent sites at Blackjack Area and the Dripping Springs offer 3 tent sites in the Clovis Point area. There are also 16 more tent sites in Garyito Point Area. All tent sites at Okmulgee/Dripping Springs State Park are unimproved, so you should better be prepared to rough it out with nature.
But, if you are not the type to “rough” it out, then bring along your RV. There are 18 semi-modern (water & electric) sites in the Hickory Point Campground and 28 semi-modern sites in the Red Oak Campground just for RV’s. The Dripping Springs has 28 semi-modern sites in Clovis Point Campground. You can also invite your whole neighborhood and relatives to take their RV’s since the group RV area at Clovis Point can accommodate from 48 to 150 RVs, with electric and water hook-ups.
The group picnic pavilions at Okmulgee Lake State Park are perfect sites for your family or office picnic or reunions. All feature electricity, running water and grills which are all conveniently located near comfort stations.
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