Lake Lurleen State Park is a publicly owned recreation area located on U.S. Highway 82 approximately 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Northport in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.

[2] After purchasing the site of the park in 1952, the state began construction of a dam on a tributary of Big Creek[3] to create a 250-acre (100 ha) lake.

Various concessionaires operated the park under the name Tuscaloosa County Public Lake from 1956 until 1970, when the state took control and added new facilities.

In 1972, the park was renamed after Lurleen Wallace, a native of Tuscaloosa County and Alabama's first female governor, who had died in office four years earlier.

The state park offers 91 campsites and a 23-mile (37 km) system of trails for hiking and mountain biking that encircles the lake.