[3] Recreational opportunities at Great Salt Plains State Park include boating, camping, picnicking, swimming, hiking, mountain biking and exploring.

A saline aquifer still flows beneath the surface and replenishes the salt whenever the water table rises.

The first white men to visit this area were members of the Sibley expedition in 1811, who named it the Grand Saline.

[5] President Herbert Hoover designated an area of the Salt Fork east of Cherokee, Oklahoma as a National Wildlife Refuge on March 26, 1930.

Fees are waived for honorably discharged veterans and Oklahoma residents age 62 & older and their spouses.