Suggestions on weekend trip in Oklahoma

Are you looking for something like a state park with hiking/biking trails, fishing, boat rental, etc? Or something near touristy type attractions like museums, historic sites, etc? Or other interest?

I am going to assume full hookups?

I don't know if LAWTON/MEDICINE PARK is too far for you but we really fell in love with the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge at Camp Doris that is inside the park. Buffalo roam free throughout the park and several deer as well. Is a very peaceful place to go. If you have kids with you they will really go crazy watching the Prairie Dogs...

Lots to do hiking and watching the sunset at night or just visiting the lakes and watching the Birds coming at dark... Scott Mtn is on the site which gives you a beautiful view of the local towns around the refuge...

Good eating at a place with direct access from the Refuge called MEERS which serves Buffalo meat...

They have both camp sites with hookups and no hookups. Controlled access after hours... You can tell the sites were originally setup for tent camping but they have several sections where your 5th wheel will work just fine...

Medicine park has a couple of good old country honky tonks but you will have to deal with the controlled access after a pretty early time (forget when it was)

Not many places in Medicine Park for groceries so bring all of that with you or plan on driving back towards Lawton during the day... The only place we found was a LOVES TRUCK STOP just off I44 at the Medicine Park exit...

This would be a typical camping spot on one of the Refuge areas at Camp Doris...


This is our setup at a no-hookup site running off our batteries... They have central located bath room buildings all over Camp Doris.


Check out their home page which has alot of photos to view...

Roy Ken

X2 for Witchita mountains. Its less than 80 miles from Oklahoma City. When we were there, medicine park was having a music festival.

Red Rock Canyon State Park just west of Oklahoma City. It was a stopping point for wagon trains going west and there are places where you can see the ruts in the rocks left by the wagons. Just outside the park is a horse drawn buggy museum too.

Red Rock Canyon State Park by Hinton ok is about one hour from okc. Theres a pretty steep drive imto and out of the canyon but worth the drive . Hiking trails are really nice well and shaded campsites.

Ditto on Wichita Mountains. In addition to bison and prairie dogs, there are free range longhorn cattle. The longhorns are not "domesticated" but just roam free as do the bison. Both have been there for over a hundred years.

We just came back from grand lake. We stayed at Cedar oaks RV park and really enjoyed it

Roman Nose State Park is 7 miles north of Watonga. It's 5er friendly, easy to get into. It's close enough to town for groceries & such.
I'm not sure if the riding stable is still open or not. But the lodge is pretty nice for meals.


Lake Eufaula is another good one.
Take the Hwy 150 exit off I-40. Go south to the tourist info center. There's 2 campground really close by the info center. They have a map with all the HU facilities & rates. Trees are really trimmed up nice and a lot of sites are pull-thrus. We drove out there last weekend scoping out places to go in the MH.

The state parks really are nice. Most sites are level concrete pads, have BBQ grills, picnic tables, etc.
If you count them, we have 50 SP's in OK. You could spend the whole summer just going to places within 2 hrs of OKC. And still miss a lot of them.:) We really do have a GREAT STATE.

X2 on Roman Nose

Going to my 50th high school reunion in OKC this summer. Plan to spend a little time in the northern plains. First stop will be Roman Nose.

Check out Sequoyah State Park, on Highway 51 just east of Wagoner, OK on Ft.
Gibson Lake. When we camp there we stay in the Seminole campground. When you are camped there you can also use the park's amenities, like the lodge pool. We enjoy driving through the park at dusk to see all the deer and other wildlife. Taylor Ferry South Corps of Engineers campground just across the lake from Sequoyah is also nice and accommodates big rigs. The state park is nicer than Taylor Ferry, but a little more expensive. You'll generally find a lot more trees in the campgrounds on the eastern side of the state than the western. For shade, Taylor Ferry South is better than the Seminole campground in Sequoyah State Park.