Bard Springs Recreation Area
Umpire, Polk County
Bard Springs is a small day-use area beside a mountain stream in the Ouachita National Forest. In 1936 the CCC built its picnic shelter, bathhouse and two small dams, which make a swimming pool in the creek.
- Kind of place
- Parks and recreation
- Built by
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- When
- About 1936
- Where
- Umpire, Polk County
- Still there?
- Not confirmed lately
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Sources
Part of Rediscovering Arkansas’s New Deal, a public map of 1930s New Deal work across all 75 counties. Updated 2026-10-14.