Natural Falls Waterfall – Oklahoma
Natural Falls State Park in Northeastern Oklahoma, known by locals as Dripping Springs Falls, is home to the beautiful 77 foot waterfall, which is one of the tallest and most accessible in the region. This was also the location for the filming of Where the Red Fern Grows. The story of a young boy growing [...]
Shattuck Windmill Museum – Oklahoma
Shattuck Windmill Museum Description: Shattuck Windmill Museum is an outdoor park and museum featuring 51 completely restored windmills which were, and still are used to pump water from wells, in the dry grasslands of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. The site also features a “Dugout” home, with a sod roof, as was used by early settlers [...]
Picher Oklahoma – Birth of a Ghost Town
Picher Oklahoma Description: Picher was home to mines that supplied bullets for U.S. soldiers fighting in World War I and II. Its population reached a peak of 16,000 as World War II approached. By 1970 the last mine in the area had closed. On April 24, 2006, Reuters reported that Picher had been scheduled to [...]
Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge
Nestled in gently rolling foothills of the Ozark Mountains, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge is home to wildlife as unique as the bald eagle and as elusive as the bobcat. Fertile bottomlands at the confluence of the Arkansas and Canadian Rivers make this east-central Oklahoma refuge a terrific wildlife viewing destination. Listen to the din of [...]
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