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Cherokee Landing State Park is a 146-acre (0.59 km 2) Oklahoma state park located in Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It is located near Park Hill, Oklahoma on a peninsula jutting into Lake Tenkiller in the Cookson Hills, south of Tahlequah. The park features 93 RV campsites with electric power and water hookups, dump station, 45 primitive campsites ...
Tenkiller Ferry Lake, also known as Lake Tenkiller, was named after the Tenkillers, a prominent Cherokee family who owned the land in the area. [6] The park was added to the Oklahoma State Park System in 1953, when the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department (ORTD) leased land adjacent to the Tenkiller Ferry Project from the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
Tenkiller Ferry Lake, or more simply, Lake Tenkiller, is a reservoir in eastern Oklahoma formed by the damming of the Illinois River.The earth-fill dam was constructed between 1947 and 1952 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers for purposes of flood control, hydroelectric power generation, water supply and recreation.
Cherokee: 2,200 890: 1953: Fort Gibson Lake: Park formerly known as Western Hills State Park Spavinaw State Park: Mayes: 35 14: 1959: Spavinaw Lake: Now known as the Spavinaw Area at Grand Lake State Park. [3] Talimena State Park: Le Flore: 20 8.1: 1970: Tenkiller State Park: Sequoyah: 1,190 480: 1953: Lake Tenkiller: Twin Bridges State Park ...
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Tenkiller is located in southeastern Cherokee County. It is bordered to the north by Welling, to the west across the Illinois River by Park Hill and Keys, and to the east by Rocky Mountain in Adair County. The community of Dry Creek is a short distance to the south. Tahlequah, the county seat, is 13 miles (21 km) to the northwest via Welling Road.
Tenkiller WMA [89] Cherokee and Sequoyah: 2,590 acres (1,050 ha) seventeen miles south of Tahlequah: On the southwest shores of Lake Tenkiller: Texoma Washita Arm WMA [90] Johnston: 13,286 acres (5,377 ha) Southwest of Tishomingo: Includes Washita Arm WDU. Three Rivers WMA [91] McCurtain and Pushmataha: 203,246 acres (82,251 ha) North of Broken Bow
The eastern end of the CDP is bordered by the Illinois River at the northern end of Tenkiller Ferry Lake. Oklahoma State Highway 82 forms the western and southern edges of the Keys CDP; it leads north 8 miles (13 km) to Tahlequah, the Cherokee County seat, and southeast 5 miles (8.0 km) to Cherokee Landing State Park on Tenkiller Ferry Lake.