10 Most Beautiful Towns in Western Oklahoma
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 มิ.ย. 2024
- I love photographing the small towns of Oklahoma. This video is a list of my 10 most photogenic small towns in the Sooner State. I moved away 20-ish years ago, but when I return visit as many state parks and towns as I can.
If you have any suggestions on places I should visit, let me know in the comments.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
00:39 #10
01:15 #9
02:06 #8
02:42 #7
03:16 #6
04:13 #5
05:17 #4
06:03 #3
06:48 #2
07:49 #1
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What are some tows in eastern Oklahoma or in middle America in general I should visit next?
Okmulgee has a really photogenic yet abandoned downtown area. Lake Okmulgee, just a few miles west of the town, is beautiful and has a spillway dam that you can climb around on.
McAlester and Eufaula would be a good place to go. Their downtowns really cool in there own way. You can also get great Italian food in Krebs. The 3 are within 30 miles of each other.
You should visit Sapulpa in eastern Oklahoma. Revitalized downtown and now a huge wintertime tourist attraction with the addition of the Christmas Chute. Other towns that come to mind would be Tahlequah, Bartlesville, Broken Bow, Krebs, and Poteau.
I grew up in Western Oklahoma, between Thomas and Putnam. I now live in Weatherford. I love a video where I have been in every town mentioned!!!
Thanks for sharing! My inlaws live in Weatherford and I'll be making several videos from the area when I visit this summer.
I grew up in Oklahoma and was familiar with some of these towns. My favorite place in the world is the Wichita Wildlife Reserve. Thank you very much for sharing this. It brought back a lot of happy memories.
Thanks for sharing! I love the Wichita Mountains too!
I have lived in Tulsa and OKC. I have always liked Woodward, it is a nice town. The dove hunting in NW Oklahoma was always great.
What are some of your favorite tows around Tulsa?
Edited, I wanted to include more: I've lived well in Oklahoma. My hometown is #1. And the place where my longest friendships wore born. My second home is #3. It's also the town from which I graduated HS. Making lifelong friends in my short time there. And then what I would consider my first adulthood home is #9. It's a place where I grew and matured a lot. It's also a place where I met some of the most special people, you know who you are. At present, I'm still living that small town Oklahoma vibe, happily here with the family. The creator mentions that #10 isn't on the main highway. But hey, it's on my main highway. Heck, I still live not far off of 64. I think it should be mentioned that Gate is known as the Gateway to the Oklahoma Panhandle. Also #9 had it's very own run of Old West shootouts back in it's early days. And while #1 is one of the smallest towns in the state it does have several things to see. Including one of the best small town rodeo's. Small town Oklahoma, IYKYK!
Thanks for your comments! You lived in the best places in western Oklahoma. I should have mentioned the Freedom rodeo - I'll do that in my next video about the area. I didn't know Beaver had such a wild west history. Thanks again for sharing.
My dad grew up in Waynoka, love going there when I can which isn’t often. My grandpa was a dishwasher at the Harvey house back in the day and a mechanic for Santa Fe railroad as an adult
Waynoka is a really cool town. I'm working on a video about the Harvey House and the TAT rail/plane network. Waynoka has a very fascinating history and was a really important town for a while. Thanks for sharing your comments.
Great photography! Freedom getting #1 is deserving! I didn't even expect Woodward to be on the list!
Thank you. I may have had some hometown bias, but there are a lot of cool buildings in Woodward.
Frederick has a small section of its old downtown that, although mostly vacant, seems locked in a time capsule. Think 1940's airmen attached to the nearby Army Air Corp training base.
Thanks for sharing. I'll have to check out Frederick next time I'm in that area.
Love the comments about Gage. Ran the marathon in the early 1980’s.
It was like going to another world!
That is a beautiful area up there. I didn’t know there was a marathon. Cool.
@@planetbell1 I think the Gage marathon stopped in the late 1990’s.
It was definitely an escape!
He was at Gate.... Not Gage. The Gage Marathon is no more but it was the very first marathon in Oklahoma.
Thanks
I would love to see Durant, Sulphur, Kennific, Davis. Atoka. Thank you.
Thanks for the suggestions! I'll check them out this summer.
As a kid I wanted to grow up and move out of ok. But the older I get the more love ok
I moved away but really enjoy visiting. I'll be traveling around for a month this summer. Thanks for sharing.
landscaping and vegetation are so different to Taiwan . your photograph works is awesome ,Mr. Bell . really wild wild west👏👏👏👏
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
Yeah you gotta go to southern Ok. Like broken bow, sulphur, Shawnee, Eufaula there’s so many and much greener
Okay, I'll check those out. Oklahoma is a like 3 states in one with the east, west and panhandle. .
@@planetbell1 the southeast is beautiful
@@planetbell1 Oklahoma has 10 different geological regions, more than every other state except California. California has 11, which is 1 more since it has an ocean bordering it.
I never in my life thought I’d see AJ toma on TH-cam lol. His son used to work for us.
AJ is the man!
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My wife has family in Woodward. We went to the Woodward rodeo and had a blast. It was my first rodeo. 😂
That rodeo is fun. I haven't been in years. Where are you from that you'd never been to a rodeo?
Hey, I enjoyed your video! I was born in South Florida and have lived most of my life here but I did live in Oklahoma for 5 years as a kid. I feel very fortunate that I got to run around in the woods and experience small town country living. Did you only include towns in the west because that's all your familiar with? We moved around a lot during those 5 years but my favorite town was Cleveland in Pawnee County. Are you familiar with that town?
I'm more familiar with the west, but I did visit several towns near Pawnee, like Blackwell, Sapulpa and Pawhuska. There some cool towns over there. Pawhuska was overwhelmed with weekend trippers the day I visited so I didn't really enjoy it but it is one of the best. I'm glad I grew up in Oklahoma - having the wide open spaces to play around and grow up was nice. Thanks for your comments!
If you look to the horizon, landscape is covered with wind electric generators… BRAVO
Yeah, it is ugly.
Need to go further southwest, to Altus, Blair, mangum, Elmer, Gould, and Hollis. Mangum has a huge rattlesnake derby every year around April. That whole area used to be texas
I'm planning to visit that part next summer. Thanks for letting me know. I'll try to visit the rattlesnake festival.
Come on down to Poteau ok you won’t be disappointed . We have the highest hill in the world 🌎
I've hear that is a nice area. I'll try to make it this summer.
Clicked to see if my hometown, Okeene, home of The Galvanized Palace, made it on the list. Thomas every year was our hardest opponent in football when I was a kid & played. We won each meeting. In Piedmont now. I'll check out your other vids
I have to check out this bar - thanks for sharing. When I'm in Oklahoma next I want to check out places like this.
Went to medicine park a few weeks ago and there was a Volkswagen car show
Like Volkswagon Beetles? There seems to be something going on there all the time.
Guthrie used to be the capital of Oklahoma but lost to a vote to OKC, they used to have the state capital but most of it has been removed
The central part of the state might look a lot different if it were the capital. It would probably have a lot more people. Thanks for sharing.
@@planetbell1 that’s what I alway say, what if Guthrie stayed the capital, would Guthrie be the biggest city in Oklahoma and OKC would be like Guthrie in modern day. Or would they be battling for the title of the states biggest city.
@@-OAK- Guthrie is probably better off for it - the downtown is so nice.
Waurika Oklahoma 😊
Go to waurika and hastings. My mom is from there.
Waurika looks cool. I'll check it out. Thanks for the recommendation.
My dad is buried in Thomas.
Thomas is a nice little town.
THOMAS!
Ide say a few of the towns mentioned are debatably west. Town like Guthrie and Medicine park for example are debatabley east even because the cross Timbers go through the counties. It’s just up to opinion on those.
Good point.
@@planetbell1 if you ask me geography wise The counties on the west side of the cross Timbers are west, the counties the cross Timbers go through are central and the counties in the east side are the east. Great vid tho.
fairview, alva and enid.
I'll check those out in the future. Thank you.
Medicine Park is way overrated. The Old Plantation is an incredible building (sadly gutted and reconfigured) and the old time cabins truely unique....but....it is small (thus during peak hours congested), a bit trashy and can attract a rough crowd. There have been several public area homicides the last few years. Plus at night, when the bikers roar through....you get it. It used to be a quiet, relaxing experience. Not no more.
Yeah, I agree. I think the natural beauty of the town makes it special. The last time I visited, it was mid-week and quiet. But, I've been there on busy weekends and it can be trashy. I saw there was a bar fight in the Tavern that led to a death last spring.
Guthrie isn’t in western ok , just saying
It is smack on the meridian line, so I'm going with western!
I was enjoying your video until you came with the “racist flag” BS.
I've never seen a non-racist fly the flag of the flag of people who left America because they wanted slaves.
Love the video but MP should be #1 😛. Yep I’m a Parkie. ⛰️
MP is too obvious for first place - I had to keep it interesting :)
@@planetbell1 😎😜