People forget about the Arbuckles, Ouachita Mountains, and Wichita Mountains in Oklahoma. There really are a lot of beautiful places in OK if you give it a closer look.
I've stood on the very highest risk on top of mt. Scott, the highest elevation in Enid. Just noticed your profile pic. I've also been to Lawrence, and Tonganoxie, Ks.😉
So i remember the camels from back in the 60s. And also a jar of pickled eggs sitting on the counter at the little store there. Great Salt Plains Lake is fed by the Salt Fork River. The water is so salty that you can lay on top of the water and float. The lake is now full of silt. 4'+ of mud. Much of the lake is less than a foot deep, and the Army Corps of Engineers has decided not to dredge it out, rather let it revert to marshland for the water fowl that stops through on their migration. At the salt flats you can dig for a unique hourglass crystal called "selenite". The little Saharah and Salt Plains are roughly 56 miles apart, and +-50 from where i grew up in Enid.
Oklahoma has a lot of sad history, we are a strange place but I love it. My family was put here by the trail of tears... My family and friends are making new history here in which I am proud.
I'm from Oklahoma, am Native American and you left out so much. Ok. is the ONLY state that encompasses every single ecosystem found on Earth! People think of Oklahoma and think the Great Plains, High Plains, The Sand Dunes, Salt Plain etc...but we have Mountains, Forests, Swamp land, we have MORE NATURAL LAKES than any other State. YOUR EMBARRASSING SMITHSONIAN. The Eastern Half of Oklahoma is called Green Country because it's BEAUTIFUL foothills and mountains and forests and very green in the spring and summer. Great Fishing and Hunting. Camping, Hiking. We have it all. I LOVE IT HERE. Especially now in these horrible trying times. You feel safe in Oklahoma, especially outside of OKC and Tulsa. Small town USA. OH...and we love Friday Night High School Football!
You got all of this right except for the natural lakes we have the most man made lakes. The flood control system the state did in the 50s and 60s worked pretty well.
I was the pilot... It's called a budget... They had only so much money to cover a lot of territory... We did our best for the budget allowed .. thanks for watching!!
I so appreciate that it's a place of sand, rather than soil and grasses. Off roading can destroy grasslands when they become popular sites for the sport.
When I saw this before the description was given of OK Grest Salt Plains, I was like it looks like salt flats,like I have in my state of Utah, known for salt flats
Something else they should put on here is, when the government tried to buy the town, the town rejected the offer... a coulpe years later a tornado destroyed the town!
Don't forget north of Altus is Quartz Mountain, a huge pile of rocks sittin' right there in the middle of the plains. I know the range starts over near Lawton, but still....
Kind of confusing geography. As an Oklahoman I know about the Great Salt Plains, but haven’t visited yet. It’s north and west of OKC. Pitcher, however is in the far northeast corner of the state, near Miami, OK and Joplin, MO. Not sure what the Great Salt Plains has to do with the ecological disaster brought on by the lead boom. Seems like someone tried to cram too much information in a tiny story and got things mismatched and mixed up. Did I miss something? Jan
Oklahoma has some beautiful scenery in the eastern and southern parts of the state. Plus the people there are for the most part friendly and helpful. You have obviously never been there.
I have lived in OK much of my life and about 7 other states these last 10 years. OK is extremely boring, however it' safe, land is cheap, and ppl are amazingly polite and friendly.
OKLA HOMA I guess if you have no life it’s boring. But then Colorado must be bring too with all it’s majestic scenery and amazing things to do. The locals are all smoking marijuana because there’s “nothing better to do”...
I've lived all over the nation and around the world its by far the most boring place I have lived but like I said it has advantages that other places do not.
People forget about the Arbuckles, Ouachita Mountains, and Wichita Mountains in Oklahoma. There really are a lot of beautiful places in OK if you give it a closer look.
I've stood on the very highest risk on top of mt. Scott, the highest elevation in Enid.
Just noticed your profile pic. I've also been to Lawrence, and Tonganoxie, Ks.😉
Don't forget the dinosaur tracks near Black Mesa in the far NW panhandle!
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Quad bikes should be banned , environment ,global warming
@@ciarandevaney385- Krebs cycle should be banned. Produces CO2 which leads to global warming. Good for politicians but bad for the environment.
So i remember the camels from back in the 60s. And also a jar of pickled eggs sitting on the counter at the little store there.
Great Salt Plains Lake is fed by the Salt Fork River. The water is so salty that you can lay on top of the water and float. The lake is now full of silt. 4'+ of mud. Much of the lake is less than a foot deep, and the Army Corps of Engineers has decided not to dredge it out, rather let it revert to marshland for the water fowl that stops through on their migration. At the salt flats you can dig for a unique hourglass crystal called "selenite".
The little Saharah and Salt Plains are roughly 56 miles apart, and +-50 from where i grew up in Enid.
I am from Oklahoma and I never knew that history of my home
Oklahomans history is shameful, push the existing natives off their land , and then setting up home on it.
@@ciarandevaney385 well it was Andrew Jackson that force them here
Oklahoma has a lot of sad history, we are a strange place but I love it. My family was put here by the trail of tears... My family and friends are making new history here in which I am proud.
@@rooteddwellings the federal government not Oklahoma forced the native Americans to relocate.
@@ciarandevaney385 that was the federal government that orchestrated all of that, but I'm sure you were already aware of that fact.
The Great Salt Plains is the only place in the world where you can find selenite crystals with hourglasses inside.
Hour glasses or Toras fields??
@@DidierDubz I mean not like hourglasses like the sand flows freely but hour glass shaped red dirt
I'm from Oklahoma, am Native American and you left out so much. Ok. is the ONLY state that encompasses every single ecosystem found on Earth! People think of Oklahoma and think the Great Plains, High Plains, The Sand Dunes, Salt Plain etc...but we have Mountains, Forests, Swamp land, we have MORE NATURAL LAKES than any other State. YOUR EMBARRASSING SMITHSONIAN. The Eastern Half of Oklahoma is called Green Country because it's BEAUTIFUL foothills and mountains and forests and very green in the spring and summer. Great Fishing and Hunting. Camping, Hiking. We have it all. I LOVE IT HERE. Especially now in these horrible trying times. You feel safe in Oklahoma, especially outside of OKC and Tulsa. Small town USA. OH...and we love Friday Night High School Football!
You got all of this right except for the natural lakes we have the most man made lakes. The flood control system the state did in the 50s and 60s worked pretty well.
Every? Where is the seashore?
Embarrassing? Calm down. It's just a short video not a fully fledged docuseries.
Pretty sure this was just about the little Sahara. It’ll be ok.
I was the pilot... It's called a budget... They had only so much money to cover a lot of territory... We did our best for the budget allowed .. thanks for watching!!
Help me I'm trapped in a cycle of watching all the smithsonian videos. It's been two hours now. I'm starting to get hungry but I can't stop.
Me too so addicting!!!!
Are you still stuck watching?
Hey I got an idea for you drop your phone in the toilet, that ought to stop you for a while.
Those are rookie numbers
You have to get comited and get strapped in a straight jacket with a room without any corners and padded. They really can help
14,000 people used to live here....now it's a ghost town.
I so appreciate that it's a place of sand, rather than soil and grasses. Off roading can destroy grasslands when they become popular sites for the sport.
I’ve been to the great salt planes. You can dig for salt crystals there.
I’m one of the endangered species from Picher.. we are almost extinct
Why are all the buildings gone?
@@300hiker Tornado destroyed them after the town was bought out.
My dad called my grandson " the last Picher boy". He was born the week of the tornado.
The singer for rascal flats is from pitcher. I ran around with his babysitters daughter in Mustang. She was the first to tell me about pitcher.
When I saw this before the description was given of OK Grest Salt Plains, I was like it looks like salt flats,like I have in my state of Utah, known for salt flats
Something else they should put on here is, when the government tried to buy the town, the town rejected the offer... a coulpe years later a tornado destroyed the town!
The government claims land from under people all the time, no doesn't really stop them if they dont want it to
In that last shot of Picher, Oklahoma there's still a large statue of a gorilla down there because it was the mascot of the high school.
Not many people know this, but Oklahoma was originally a desert like little Sahara
Love this narrator's voice.
So that’s what I saw from the plane
I was the pilot of this state and many more.... Great time..
Don't forget north of Altus is Quartz Mountain, a huge pile of rocks sittin' right there in the middle of the plains.
I know the range starts over near Lawton, but still....
In the early 1900’s my grandfather, a Cherokee, was a miner in Pícher
Kind of confusing geography. As an Oklahoman I know about the Great Salt Plains, but haven’t visited yet. It’s north and west of OKC. Pitcher, however is in the far northeast corner of the state, near Miami, OK and Joplin, MO.
Not sure what the Great Salt Plains has to do with the ecological disaster brought on by the lead boom. Seems like someone tried to cram too much information in a tiny story and got things mismatched and mixed up.
Did I miss something?
Jan
Typical non-Oklahomian: "yah well there are no beaches or malls, so OKLAHOMA SUCKS!!!"
Some Kid From Oklahoma Yeah, they forget how awesome our cities are.
That’s no joke
They used to think we lived in tepees when I was growing up... Finally we are getting put in the map. I hate our politics tho.
@@johnperic6860 love little towns I’ve worked many, and yeah don’t like our senate and 95% voting straight party entirely leaning far to the right...
How did we go from the Great Salt Plains to Pitcher?? Pitcher is on the other side of the state.
the frame rate on those drone shots at the end were rough
How did their lawns stay short?
Collinsville just covered up some coal pits. Fished in the rest
1600 acres= less than 3 square miles
Wonderful
Everywhere was a great hunting spot for early native Americans
It's Conrad from 1310 The TICKET!!!
Is Little Sahara the same as Waynoka's Golden Sands?
I've never heard it called that, but yes, this is just south of Waynoka.
There are Salt Flats in Utah too
Funny how they throw Picher in there last minute.
Looks like a place from your dreams.
I’d like to live in Picher, Kansas. I would have a heavy metal festival there every year.
Not impressed by off roaders requirements.
How white of you ('. . . following Sibley's discovery . . .'). sigh
So *that's* how Flints water got so toxic.
It's A Desert
Harmful to epa
Don't get used to that sand everywhere else in Oklahoma is underwater most of the year
ha.
Just another old saltys tale 🤔⁉️😂🤣😂
I'm currently living in Oklahoma and I could promise you, this is the most interesting thing that happens here LOL
Go to southern Oklahoma and check out the mountains if you haven't. Amazing scenery.
You obviously never leave your house.
oklahoma is very boring
Oklahoma has some beautiful scenery in the eastern and southern parts of the state. Plus the people there are for the most part friendly and helpful. You have obviously never been there.
I have lived in OK much of my life and about 7 other states these last 10 years. OK is extremely boring, however it' safe, land is cheap, and ppl are amazingly polite and friendly.
OKLA HOMA I guess if you have no life it’s boring. But then Colorado must be bring too with all it’s majestic scenery and amazing things to do. The locals are all smoking marijuana because there’s “nothing better to do”...
I've lived all over the nation and around the world its by far the most boring place I have lived but like I said it has advantages that other places do not.
It really doesn't matter where you are when you sit around and look at you tube all day.
It's A Desert