Woolly Hollow State Park — Attraction in Greenbrier

I live only a few miles from the park and have been coming here for years. The park is clean, tidy, and generally quiet. The small lake and campground is a CCC project from the 1930s but the state steadily makes improvements, most recently almost 10 miles of mountain bike trails and a much-needed visitor's center (opening in spring 2018).

I regularly use the hiking and mountain bike trails. The Huckleberry Trail, a dedicated walking trail, is a bit short (4.2) but suitable for most casual hikers. You will also find it the most traveled of the trails, traversed by shuffling, less fit, and noisy walkers. It circles the lake, crosses streams, climbs ridges, wends past a charming and well-preserved old cabin and unfortunately makes two road crossings, one of which seems completely unnecessary if only the park would see fit to add a footbridge and a couple hundred extra feet of trail at the southwest inlet of the lake.

If you want to mountain bike, a trail run or a more strenuous and lengthy hike use the Enders Fault Mountain Bike Trail at the east end of the park. The 9-miles of trail has a little more than 500' of elevation change and incorporates a lot of switchbacks to attain the significant length in the small area it encompasses—in many places you will be able to view other adjacent portions of the trail. The trail is divided into a North and South loop and by mountain bike standards are considered intermediate in difficulty. Although primarily designed for mountain biking it is a multi-use trail meaning hikers and trail runners are welcome. Just be alert and yield to cyclists by stepping off trails as they grind through the woods.

A very short paved, barrier-free pathway that leads to the fishing pier is located adjacent to the parking lot across from the visitor's center.

The swimming and fishing are both just mediocre, but good enough for a bit of relaxation. Tent and RV camping sites are available, along with picnicking areas and a large pavilion that can...

The park and lake were beautiful but we had issues.The Campground was small which I loved. The lake was small as well which is a positive if kayaking or paddle boating. Unfortunately, this campground had an unspoken rule about where you can swim. At check in, this was not mentioned and there were no signs at the Campground or rules stating where you could swim. I'm not fond of overcrowded swimming areas so just as with any lake, we swam at the water behind our campsite. The first day, all was well. The second day, a park ranger approached us while swimming and was very aggressive. He rudely told us to get out of the water and that this was our first and only warning. When we question him (since we didn't know the rule stating that swimming can only be done in the swimming area), he became very rude and aggressive. We let him know that we didn't know the rules and there were no signs. To this, he informed us that he does not have to have signs or tell us the rules. He then threatened to remove us from the Campground for questioning him. We were very upset by his behavior. The next day we went to the swimming area to find that they charge $4 per person to swim in the overcrowded swimming area. This is even if you are paying to camp there! So even though the park and lake were beautiful, we will not return. All the other Arkansas State Parks are terrific with pleasant workers so not going back to Wooly Hollow will not be...

0 stars from me if I could. Rude, greedy, ran by teenagers. Teenagers were even rude to my 6 year old daughter that just asked how much longer. Worst customer experience I have ever had.

Came for a birthday party. Paid money to swim for my family. Walked down to the beach, the faintest thunder in the distance.

They asked us to get out for a thunder watch. We had to wait 30 min of no thunder before we got in. Which I understand, no problem.

The teenagers running the place decided that it would be better for them to be on their phones inside the ac. So they said they kept hearing thunder. Which there’s was at one time no thunder for an hour.

We all had to pack up because we could tell they weren’t going to let us back in. I asked for a refund because we paid to swim and never got the chance. The teenagers at the front just pointed to a sign that said no refund due to weather.

I wouldn’t have asked if we had a chance to swim and be there for a minute. We never got to get in the water.

Wild life fella Giles couldn’t care less to give us a refund and told us to call the main office in littlerock.

I will not be returning. The teenagers were rude to everyone, even yelling across the lake to people that were on their own kayaks.

I had the most problem with them being rude to my 6 year old, just because she asked how much longer.

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