Chickasaw National Recreation Area - The Junior Ranger Station (U.S. National Park Service)

Park ranger talks with young boy through the window of a stone building

NPS/Chickasaw National Recreation Area

A park ranger answers the question of a young visitor at the Junior Ranger Station.

Located at the entrance to the Cold Springs Campground, the Junior Ranger Station is open during summer weekends as a central location for children visiting the park to begin their Junior Ranger experience.

Location
Approximately one mile east of U.S. Highway 177 on the Perimeter Drive (follow the signs to the Travertine Nature Center) at the entrance to the Cold Springs Campground.

Hours of Operation

Closed for the season until the spring of 2010.

Contact park staff at 580 622-7234 for more information.

Children talking to a park ranger in a stone building

NPS/Jack E. Boucher

Children talking to a Park ranger at the Cold Springs Campground, 1960

About the building
This building was originally built in March of 1938 by the Civilian Conservation Corps as a campground checking station. By the late 1940s the building was used as a ranger station, and through the 1950s and 1960s it was also used as the office of the Chief Ranger.

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The Junior Ranger Station