Shady Lake Recreation Area
Mena, Polk County
Shady Lake is a 25-acre lake in the Ouachita National Forest. The CCC built its bathhouse in 1936, the dam and picnic pavilion in 1938, and a caretaker's house in 1940.
- Kind of place
- Parks and recreation
- Built by
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- When
- 1936 to 1940
- Where
- Mena, 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.