Hopefully you've done the
Gallop Flea Market - if not, do that.
Santa Fe and area are great to wander around.
Coming into OK there's a great little state park about 1 hour west of OKC
Red Rock Canyon State Park. Then staying on I-40 another great little state park,
Greenleaf State Park which is close to Tenkiller Dam - Greenleaf is just a prettier little park, where as Tenkiller is more of a hub bub area. Make reservations both places to get a FH site.
Off I-40 if you want to explore a little more here are some suggestions.
Whichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge is a great area to hike in and around. The same geological events that formed the Davis Mountains in Texas, formed these, only these are older so more worn down by time and weather. Lots of buffalo, birds, a nature center and electric hook-up campground (Doris).
Osage Hills State Park is up further north in the foothills of the Ozarks. Great hiking and close to the
Nature Conservancy's Tallgrass Prairie Preserve which hosts one of the purest buffalo herds in the US. Next door is Bartlesville where the Price Tower (by Frank Lloyd Wright) is still in operation (go to the bar and have a drink and watch the sunset).
In the very SE part of the state are
Talimena State Park,
Robber's Cave State Park,
Lake Wister State Park, with the grand daddy of all OK state parks,
Beavers Bend State Park, which hosts fabulous RV sites. Check with each state park for reservations, but you can easily use Beavers Bend as your home base to visit all these parks. Fall and spring are primo times at Beavers Bend, but the summer is good too.
One last park, during the 1st two weeks of November, western OK is a major migration for birds and a lot of them are at the
Great Salt Plains State Park. This is a great place during the fall.
In the OKC area check out, Cattleman's Cafe in Stock Yards, Bricktown in downtown (if there's a Red Hawk game, those are fun), the OKC Zoo houses one of the best zoos in the country, the downtown OKC Art Museum houses extensive Dale Chilhuly glass collection. South to Norman has the
Sam Noble Museum of History as well as the
OU Museum of Art.
I teach classes for out-of-state students and set up a page of places to go and things to see in OKC
here.
