Q: When did Alabama establish its first state parks?
A: According to an article in the online Encyclopedia of Alabama, the state’s park system started in 1927 when the state legislature passed the State Land Act. The act provided for the development and operation of state parks and the administration of other state lands by the State Commission of Forestry.
People are also reading… The CCC constructed Chattahoochee State Park in the southeastern corner of Houston County during the Great Depression. The 596-acre park was part of the state’s park system until the state planned to shut the park years ago. Two state parks in southeastern Alabama are Blue Springs State Park, about six miles east of Clio in southeast Barbour County, and Lakepoint State Park, seven miles north of Eufaula on the banks of Lake Eufaula.