Arkansas New Deal

All places › Montgomery County

Collier Springs Shelter

Womble, Montgomery County

Photograph of Collier Springs Shelter
Photo: Valis55, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons License. Source

CCC Company 741, formed at Camp Pike on May 1, 1933, built this stone picnic shelter in 1939. It sits right over Collier Spring, which drains through a pipe into the creek, and has built-in stone benches. It is in the Ouachita National Forest about seven miles northeast of Norman.

Kind of place
Parks and recreation
Built by
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
When
1933 to 1939
Where
Womble, Montgomery County
Still there?
Not confirmed lately

See it on the mapDirectionsBeen here? Tell us

Sources

Part of Rediscovering Arkansas’s New Deal, a public map of 1930s New Deal work across all 75 counties. Updated 2026-10-14.