Perry County IN Parks Lists Four Riverfront Parks Along Highway 66

1. Eagles Bluff Park and Overlook

Eagles Bluff Park and Overlook is listed as one of the four Perry County (IN) park facilities located along the Ohio River Scenic Byway (Highway 66) on the county’s southern and eastern edges. The park name and county listings identify a scenic overlook; the Parks & Recreation pages explicitly note a scenic overlook of the Ohio River and Cannelton Locks & Dam among the county’s park amenities. Perry County’s parks inventory is described at the departmental level as four facilities ranging in size from 1 acre to 128 acres, but the county excerpts do not provide an acreage breakdown for Eagles Bluff specifically. The Parks & Recreation Department presents its mission directly on the site: “It is the duty of the Parks & Recreation Department to provide park and recreation facilities that serve the needs of Perry County residents and encourage and promote tourism.”

2. Electra Crash Memorial Park

Electra Crash Memorial Park appears on the county’s official list of four county parks fronting Highway 66 and the Ohio River Scenic Byway, carrying a name that identifies it as a memorial facility in the county inventory. The county-wide amenities list attached to the park pages includes two public boat launches, walking trails, shelter houses and restroom facilities; the provided excerpts do not assign any of those features to individual parks, so the county’s pages should be read as a consolidated inventory unless the county publishes park-level detail. The department is administered by a full-time director and overseen by a five-member Board of Directors, structure that frames how memorial sites such as Electra Crash Memorial Park are managed and scheduled for maintenance or events.

4. Wilkerson County Park

Wilkerson County Park completes the county’s four-site list on the Perry County (IN) Parks & Recreation pages; like the others, it is described as a county facility on lands along Highway 66 bordering the Ohio River Scenic Byway. The county materials give an overall parks acreage range (1–128 acres), name the four parks (Eagles Bluff Park and Overlook / Electra Crash Memorial Park / Riverside Park / Wilkerson County Park) and enumerate shared amenities — a scenic overlook of the Ohio River and Cannelton Locks & Dam, two public boat launches, walking trails, shelter houses and restroom facilities — but the supplied excerpts do not provide per-park acreage, GPS coordinates, or a facility-by-facility amenities breakdown. Administrative contact in the excerpts lists Jake Austin as Perry County Parks and Recreation Director and provides a Parks office phone number (812-547-3453) and address (65 Park Avenue, Tell City, IN 47586) with office hours shown as M–F 7:00–3:00; the bundle also includes a separate Payne Street address (2219 Payne Street, Tell City, IN 47586) with hours M–F 8am–4pm CST adjacent to a “Board Members” heading, an inconsistency the county should clarify for public transparency. The county’s governance structure — a full-time director supported by a five-member board — shapes decisions about maintenance, permits and capital investment along this stretch of Highway 66; clarifying contact details, per-park acreages and the location of the two boat launches would strengthen public accountability and help residents assess access to riverfront recreation.