Leisure Activities | Crater of Diamonds State Park

Leisure Activities

Program is a state park. Crater of Diamonds offers park visitors a one-of-a-kind experience-the adventure of hunting for real diamonds. You'll search over a 37 ½-acre plowed field that is the eroded surface of the world's eighth largest diamond-bearing volcanic crater. If you find a diamond, it is yours to keep. Begin your visit at the park visitor center. Here you will be able to view diamonds in the rough and explore our interactive exhibits that explain why diamonds are present here at Arkansas's diamond site. Then, pass through the Diamond Discovery Center on your way to prospect in the diamond search area. Here, exhibits, interpretive programs, and a video show you the various ways to search for diamonds and identify rough diamonds as you prospect. The search area is open daily throughout the year, except for Thanksgiving Day, the last half of Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. Mining tools are available to rent. Diamonds come in all colors of the rainbow. The three colors found here at the park are white, brown, and yellow, in that order. Park staff at the Diamond Discovery Center provide free identification and certification of diamonds found here. Amethyst, garnet, jasper, agate, quartz, and more rocks and minerals may also be found at the Crater of Diamonds, making the park a rock hound's paradise. The park also includes 47 Class AAA campsites and five walk-in tent sites with free Wi-Fi, an enclosed pavilion with air-conditioning and heating, picnic sites, restaurant, gift shop, trails, laundry, and theDiamond Springs Water Park, a play pool for visitors of all ages.

Physical Address

209 State Park Rd, Murfreesboro, AR 71958

Application process

Call for more information.

Fee

Ages 13 & up $10.00Ages 6 - 12 $6.00Ages 5 & under Free20 Admission Pass $170.00

Languages

English

Service area

AR

Agency info

Crater of Diamonds State Park

Agency is a state park.