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Queen Wilhelmina State Park is a unit of Arkansas State Parks Division in the Ouachita Mountains. The original "Castle in the Sky" lodge was built in 1898 on 2,681-foot Rich Mountain, in Polk County, Arkansas. The park is on Talimena Scenic Drive — northwest of Mena, Arkansas and east of the Oklahoma state line. Queen Wilhelmina State Park Lodge closed March 5, 2012 for a major renovation. It will reopen July 1, 2015. The lodge has 38 guest rooms, a restaurant, lobby and meeting room. The campground and trails remain open during the renovation. The park's offices, normally housed in the lodge, are temporarily near the campground entrance. The park is one of the park system's eight mountain parks.〔Queen Wilhelmina State Park, 3877 Highway 88 West, Mena, AR 71953〕 Arkansas State Parks Division is one of two units of the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism.〔http://www.arkansas.com/〕 == History == The original lodge was built by the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad to house passengers. Many of the railroad's investors were Dutch, so the lodge was named to honor Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, who was to be crowned in September 1898. Grand opening of the Victorian lodge was June 22, 1898. Wilhelmina Inn was soon nicknamed the "Castle in the Sky." The KCPG railroad faced financial problems, and was sold to what later became the Kansas City Southern Railroad. The original inn fell into disrepair, and permanently closed in 1910. Interest in tourism rose after World War II. State Act 76 of 1957 created Queen Wilhelmina State Park. A new lodge was built and opened June 22, 1963. It used some of the original rock work. It operated 10 years, until a Nov. 10, 1973 kitchen fire spread and destroyed the lodge. Construction soon began on the site's third lodge. The $3 million lodge, now under renovation, re-opened in 1975.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Queen Wilhelmina State Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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