Crater of Diamonds offers park visitors a one-of-a-kind experience—the adventure of hunting for real diamonds. You’ll search over a 37 ½-acre plowed field that is the eroded surface of the world's eighth largest diamond-bearing volcanic crater. If you find a diamond, it is yours to keep. Begin your visit at the park visitor center to view diamonds in the rough and explore its interactive exhibits that explain why diamonds are present here at Arkansas’s diamond site. Then, stop by the Diamond Discovery Center on your way to prospect in the diamond search area. Here, exhibits, interpretive programs, and a video show you the various ways to search for diamonds and identify rough diamonds as you prospect. Mining tools are available to rent. Diamonds come in all colors of the rainbow. The three colors found here at the park are white, brown, and yellow, in that order. Park staff at the Diamond Discovery Center provide free identification and certification of diamonds found here. Amethyst, garnet, jasper, agate, quartz, and more rocks and minerals may also be found at the Crater of Diamonds, making the park a rock hound’s paradise. The park also includes 47 Class AAA campsites and five walk-in tent sites with free Wi-Fi, an enclosed pavilion with air-conditioning and heating, picnic sites, restaurant, gift shop, trails, laundry, and the Diamond Springs Water Park, a play pool for visitors of all ages.
Amenities
Within Facility
Amphitheater
Bath House
Campground Host
Camping, Improved Site
Camping, Primitive
Dump Station
Fire Rings
Fishing
Geological Formations
Grills
Hiking Trail
Historic Sites
Historic Structure/Feature
Interpretive Center
Interpretive Exhibit/Dispaly
Interpretive Waysides
Jogging/Running
Laundry
Lifeguards(Seasonal)
Meeting Space
Museum
Nature Study
Office/Ranger Station
Parking
Photography
Picnic Area
Picnic Tables
Picnicking
Playground
Programs, Instructional
Restaurant
Restrooms
Concessions
Store/Gift Shop
River/Stream
Swimming - Pool
Water Access, River/Stream
Water Drinking
Water Slides
Wildflower Viewing
Wildlife Viewing
Bath House
Campground Host
Camping, Improved Site
Camping, Primitive
Dump Station
Fire Rings
Fishing
Geological Formations
Grills
Hiking Trail
Historic Sites
Historic Structure/Feature
Interpretive Center
Interpretive Exhibit/Dispaly
Interpretive Waysides
Jogging/Running
Laundry
Lifeguards(Seasonal)
Meeting Space
Museum
Nature Study
Office/Ranger Station
Parking
Photography
Picnic Area
Picnic Tables
Picnicking
Playground
Programs, Instructional
Restaurant
Restrooms
Concessions
Store/Gift Shop
River/Stream
Swimming - Pool
Water Access, River/Stream
Water Drinking
Water Slides
Wildflower Viewing
Wildlife Viewing