Beavers Bend OHV Trails
Beavers Bend Resort Park encompasses 3,522 acres of the Mountain Fork River valley in McCurtain County in the extreme southeastern corner of Oklahoma, one of Oklahoma's largest and most heavily visited state parks, occupying the gorge cut by the Mountain Fork River through the Kiamichi Mountains on the southern flank of the Oklahoma Ouachitas. The park's OHV and equestrian trail system threads through the surrounding Kiamichi Mountain terrain on designated routes, operating in the forest above the Mountain Fork River corridor through the shortleaf pine and mixed-hardwood forest that defines McCurtain County's mountain landscape, the southernmost extension of the Ouachita Mountain system before it grades into the Gulf Coastal Plain. The park complex centers on Broken Bow Lake, the 14,000-acre reservoir created by Pine Creek Dam on the Mountain Fork River that backs up into the mountain terrain and provides the blue-water lake setting that makes Beavers Bend a family resort destination as well as an OHV riding area. The Kiamichi Mountains at Beavers Bend represent the tallest terrain in McCurtain County (elevations reaching 1,800 feet on the ridge crests above the Mountain Fork canyon), and the OHV trail system follows the ridge-to-hollow topography through the pine forest above the river, with the Mountain Fork valley providing a dramatic canyon backdrop. McCurtain County is the most heavily forested county in Oklahoma and receives more rainfall than any other part of the state, the result of its position in the moist southeastern corner where Gulf moisture penetrates farthest inland: the terrain at Beavers Bend is genuinely lush by Oklahoma standards, with creek bottoms supporting magnolia, beech, and sweetgum in the moist Gulf Coastal Plain transition communities. Oklahoma State Parks day-use fee or annual pass; Oklahoma OHV registration required. Beavers Bend State Park (580-494-6300) manages current trail access.