The park offers camping sites, picnic areas, swimming, fishing, and a nature trail.

[4] At 10:00 a.m. on October 22, 1964, the United States Atomic Energy Commission detonated an underground nuclear device inside the Tatum Salt Dome, near Baxterville (Project Salmon).

The bomb blasted a spherical cavity about 110 feet in diameter inside the salt dome, creating a cavern.

This cavern was used for a second nuclear test within the salt dome on December 3, 1966 (Project Sterling) which had the force of 350 tons of TNT.

The Tatum Salt Dome site saw two additional tests by the Atomic Energy Commission as a part of Project Miracle Play.