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| The primary activities at Jones Lake, at least on the last weekend in May 2008, are swimming and picknicking. The park provides a white-sand beach on a designated swimming area in the tannin-brown lake. | |
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| A watersnake found that a black plastic floating dock under the boat shed was a good place to warm itself. A lifeguard said they killed a chicken snake (corn snake) in the boat shed's rafters a week earlier. |  |
The 5-mile Bay Trail circles the lake and has side trails to a fishing pier and to Salters Lake (park map). The state's Web page for the park says the trail leads you through dense vegetation and over boggy soil, and to views of large pond cypress trees draped with Spanish moss along the shore and leatherwood plants with delicate white flowers, also called "titi," overhanging the water's edge. There's also a 1-mile looping trail.
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| Exhibits inside the visitors center explain southeastern North Carolina's "Carolina Bays" phenomenon. |  |
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A small butterfly garden next to the visitors center is a success.
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| Jones Lake is off of N.C. 53 near White Oak, in the western corner of Bladen Lakes State Forest in Bladen County. |  |