Phone: 870-445-3629
bullshoalswhiteriver@arkansas.com
www.arkansasstateparks.com/bullshoalswhiteriver

The park’s 15,744-square foot visitor center opened in fall 2006. The $4.8 million center is situated on a highpoint across the dam from the rest of the park’s facilities. The center affords a spectacular view of the White River, Bull Shoals Dam and Bull Shoals Lake. This visitor/education center is named in honor of Jim Gaston of Lakeview, owner of Arkansas’s renowned Gaston’s White River Resort. The James A. Gaston Visitor Center serves as the primary visitor contact point at Bull Shoals-White River State Park and is the focal point for the interpretation of the White River, Bull Shoals Dam, Bull Shoals Lake. Interpretive exhibits are featured throughout the lobby, gift shop, Johnboat Theater, and Exhibit Hall, a 1,720-square-foot area filled with images of the river, lake and dam. These state-of-the art exhibits and the video presentation in the theater tell about the histories and fisheries these renowned waters hold. The center also includes an observation tower, gift shop, two classrooms and park offices.

They offer all sorts of classes. Learn about the vultures, take a tour of the Dam, in the summer a Lake Cruise of offered. This is a place that most of our guests will go to and learn something. The movie even has sub-titles for those who do not speak Southern.