Explore Atlanta State Park: Nature, Camping, and Fun
By: Christopher Long
Revised by: Laurie E. Jasinski
Published: 1976
Updated: August 30, 2025
Atlanta State Park is on the shores of Lake Wright Patman off Farm Road 1154, eight miles northwest of Atlanta in Cass County. The 1,475-acre park was acquired in 1954 by a license from the Department of the Army. The landscape features pine and oak forest with exposed red-clay bluffs. Park facilities include fifty-eight campsites, two boat ramps, a picnic pavilion, park store, and almost five miles of hiking trails. Fishing, boating, swimming, waterskiing, and birdwatching are popular activities.
Bibliography:
Atlanta State Park, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (https://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/atlanta), accessed August 30, 2025. Vertical Files, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
Categories:
Time Periods:
Places:
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry.
Christopher Long Revised by Laurie E. Jasinski, “Atlanta State Park,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed March 09, 2026, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/atlanta-state-recreation-area.
Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
TID:
GKA06
All copyrighted materials included within the Handbook of Texas Online are in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 related to Copyright and “Fair Use” for Non-Profit educational institutions, which permits the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), to utilize copyrighted materials to further scholarship, education, and inform the public. The TSHA makes every effort to conform to the principles of fair use and to comply with copyright law.
For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond fair use, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
- 1976
- August 30, 2025
