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50+ Things To Do In Oklahoma

 

HERO email list members (you're welcome to join the email fun!) recommended a slew of fun things to do in Oklahoma--you need never run out of enriching outings in Oklahoma.

Locations are listed in random order.

• Tiger Safari has the largest selection of exotic and domestic animals for Zoo To You in the State of Oklahoma for your Private Birthday Party to Company picnics Click on Photo to Right and Then call for an unforgettable Experience.   Call 405-414-9365 for Booking Tiger Safari is now Booking Sundowner Safari Tours, Summer Field trips, Camping and much more.
  
• The OU Sooner Flight Academy challenges children with the science and math of the aviation world.
  
  
• The Oklahoma State Parks, Resorts and Golf website provides a wealth of information for relaxing in Oklahoma.
  
  
• Enjoy a retreat at Turtle Rock Farm Retreat. Learn about sustainability and growing your own food among other things. Contact Ann at 580-725-3411.
  
  
• Hike the Martin Park Nature Center, or play and learn in the hands-on museum, Oklahoma City
  
  
• Explore the Oklahoma City Zoo and journey through a tropical rainforest and view gorillas, orangutans and chimpanzees at the zoo's Great EscApe, one of the many outstanding features of the zoo (Oklahoma City)
  
  
• Try the Gilcrease Museum hands-on art-making area, check out the touchables or take a self-guided tour of the special exhibits, and be sure to pick up a free Trailblazer Bag. (Tulsa)
  
• Tulsa Air and Space Museum, 3624 North 74 East Avenue,  Tulsa, OK 74115, (918) 834-9900, The Tulsa Air and Space Museum & Planetarium offers field trips to home school groups.
  
  
• Check out the Tulsa Zoo, the Rainforest and the new African penguin exhibit!
  
  
• Visit the Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore-don't miss the neat kid stuff downstairs. 
  
  
• Smell the roses at Will Rogers Park, across the street from the Will Rogers Memorial (Claremore)
  
  
• Attend or perform in Jana Jae's American Heritage Music Festival: watch the cloggers and enjoy America's best fiddlers (Grove)
  
  
• Enjoy a bicycle ride around Lake Overholser (western Oklahoma City)
  
  
• See the Overholser Mansion, 1903 Victorian mansion, (Oklahoma City)
  
  
• Visit the Oklahoma Historical Society  (Oklahoma City)
  
  
• Picnic at Lake Thunderbird State Park (east of Norman)
  
  
• Go climbing or hiking at Red Rock Canyon (Hinton)
  
  
• Relax and watch a movie on the giant screen in the plush IMAX Theatre (Tulsa)
  
  
• Check out the Selman Bat Cave in summer, one of Oklahoma's largest colonies.
  
  
• Give your 3 to 12 year old the opportunity to "become" a doctor, judge, artist, pilot or firefighter at the Jasmine Moran Children's Museum (Seminole)
  
  
• Visit the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (Norman)
  
  
• Try indoor rock climbing at OKC Rocks in Oklahoma City, or New Heights Rock Gym in Tulsa.
  
  
• Eat a steak at Cattlemen's Steakhouse at Stockyards City in downtown (Oklahoma City)
  
  
• Go to the parade and tribal dances during the International Indian Expo in Anadarko, held the first full week of August.
  
  
• Feed the ducks (and get buzzed by gulls), watch sailboats (or sail one!), or walk, skate or bike on paved trails along the shoreline at Lake Hefner, (Oklahoma City)
  
  
• Visit the Oklahoma City National Memorial (Oklahoma City)
  
  
• Listen to a concert at the newly-refurbished Cox Business Services Convention Center (Oklahoma City)
  
  
• Play in the Little Niagara swimming area or watch for bald eagles at the Chickasaw National Recreation Area (Sulphur)
  
  
• Visit the Oklahoma Aquarium and enter the shark viewing dome (Jenks)
  
  
• Oklahoma ranks among the top 10 states for numbers of eagles; try some winter eagle-spotting at any one of a number of eagle hot spots, including Keystone Lake, west of (Tulsa)
  
  
• Visit Woolaroc and see buffalo from your car, or get up close and personal at the petting zoo in summer, near Bartlesville
  
  
• Check out the Harn Homestead (Oklahoma City)
  
  
• Mountain bike the 17 miles of trails around Lake Arcadia, near Edmond
  
  
• Soak up the music at the International Bluegrass Music Festival, Guthrie
  
  
• Visit the Five Civilized Tribes Museum (Muskogee)
  
  
• Try some old-fashioned chuck wagon grub at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Chuck Wagon Gathering and Children's Cowboy Festival, Memorial Day weekend, (Oklahoma City)
  
  
• Stroll through Bricktown (downtown Oklahoma City)
  
  
• Spend the day at the Omniplex, an amusement park for the mind, Oklahoma City
  
  
• Visit quaint shops in downtown Bethany
  
  
• Cheer your favorite knight at the Medieval Fair (Norman)
  
  
• Be entertained at the Oklahoma Opry (Oklahoma City)
  
  
• Rodeo Opry located at 2221  Exchange in the Stockyards.   The  Opry Heritage Foundation of Oklahoma, home of the Rodeo Opry is a non profit organization that has educational programs during the week and a show every Saturday night. The concert series for students meets the P.A.S.S. requirements in several curricular areas. Contact 405-297-9773
  
  
• Swim, wade, explore a stream and play on the sandy beach at Turner Falls Park (Davis)
  
  
• Paint a ceramic masterpiece, work with mosaic tiles or create a stepping stone for your garden--you choose the painting location, from My Own Design ceramics.
  
  
• Find out what's playing at Lyric Theatre (Oklahoma City)
  
  
• Walk through the The Myriad Botanical Gardens and Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory (Oklahoma City)
  
  
• Experience the Red Earth Festival the first weekend in June for Native American dance, storytelling and art, Oklahoma City
  
  
•  Oklahoma Science Museum in Oklahoma City
  
  
• Walk the "missile walk" and then visit the old post guard house and museums at Ft. Sill
  
  
• Take a pottery class at Third Street Clayworks  (Tulsa)
  
  
• See buffalo, longhorns and prairie dogs in their natural habitat, visit the Holy City of the Wichitas, and climb Mount Scott at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, near Lawton.
  
  
• Eat a longhorn burger at the historic Meers Store and Restaurant in Meers, near Lawton
  
  
• Go back in time with a visit to Medicine Park, the historic old resort town and gangster hideout, near Lawton
  
  
• Follow the Chisholm trail to the Chisholm Trail Heritage Center in Duncan for Educational Fieldtrips
  
  
• Visit Quartz Mountain Lodge near Altus
  
  
• Visit "Indian City," attend a Powwow and check out restorations of seven different Indian villages in Anadarko
  
  
• Feed the prairie dogs at Elmer Thomas Park, Lawton
  
  
• Check out a replica of an old-time general store, gallows, a barber shop, a one-room schoolhouse, and oodles more, from antiques to doo-dads at the 100+ mini-museums and displays at Har-Ber village in Grove
  
  
• Visit Beavers Bend State Park (Broken Bow)
  
  
• Explore Robbers Cave, near Wilburton
  
  
• Drive through the Arbuckle Wilderness (Davis)
  
  
• Dig for crystals at the Salt Plains, northwest of Enid
  
  
• Walk around the ruins of Fort Washita, built in 1842 to protect the Cherokees and Choctaws against the Comanches, and later used in the Civil War, near Madill and Durant
  
  
• Check out the only archaeological site open to the public in Oklahoma: Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center, prehistoric settlement of Native Americans
  
  
• Attend school at a 1910 one-room schoolhouse, Rose Hill School, near Perry
  
  
• Hike a trail or drive through Tall Grass Prairie Preserve and look for buffalo, near Pawhuska
  
  
• Take the beautiful Talimena Scenic Drive through the Ouachita National Forest, east from Talihina
  
  
• Wade, swim, or walk a nature trail at the Ouachita National Forest, the highest mountain range between the Rockies and Appalacians, south of Poteau
  
  
• Go horseback riding, biking or fishing at Lake Murray Resort Park, near Ardmore
  
  
• See pioneer and Native American artifacts at the free Philomathic museum, Anadarko
  
  
• See the 1,000 year old runestone, thought to be engraved by Scandinavian explorers at the Heavener Runestone State Park in Heavener
  
  
• Sit back and quietly watch a powwow with some fry bread or an Indian Taco, throughout the state including the Tulsa Powwow of Champions, the 50+ year old Tulsa powwow and the 100+ year old annual Ponca Powwow
  
  
• Take in an exhibit at the The Philbrook Museum of Art (Tulsa)
  
  
• Visit a depiction of a Cherokee village as it would have been before contact with Europeans, see Cherokees reenact the daily activities of their ancestors, and look at the Trail of Tears exhibit showing the forced march to Indian Territory, at the Cherokee Heritage Center in Tahlequah
  
• Take a tour provided by the Cherokee Nation Cultural Tourism Department.  Offering programs specifically designed for students. 918-384-7887
  
  
• Learn while you experiment and do at Leonardo's Discovery Warehouse and climb the massive playground structure across the street at AdventureQuest (Enid)
  
  
• See what it would have been like to live in an 1894 sod house, one of which has been preserved by the Sod House Museum, near Cleo Springs
  
  
• Take in an opera or ballet at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center
  
  
• Enjoy magicians, strolling musicians, authentic foods, jousting and comedy at the Renaissance Faire, in early May, Muskogee
  
  
• Participate in the before-show sing-along, boo and hiss the villian and cheer for the hero in the long-running melodrama, "The Drunkard," Tulsa
  
  
• Take a float trip on the Illinois River, rent your canoe near Tahlequah
  
  
• Let the little ones ride the old-fashioned 30 cent rides at the Kiddie Park at Johnstone Park, Bartlesville
  
  

• Paint a ceramic piece at Purple Glaze-- no experience or supplies required, Tulsa and Broken Arrow
  
  

• Visit the American Banjo Museum's 21,000 sq. ft. facility located in the heart of the Bricktown Arts and Entertainment District of Oklahoma City. A non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating the music and heritage of America's Instrument, the banjo.  Contact information:
  American Banjo Museum
  Johnny Baier, Executive Director
  9 E. Sheridan Ave.
  Oklahoma City, OK 73104
  
  405/604-2793
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• Kaleidoscope Childrens Museum, 6202 S. Sheridan, Tulsa, OK  918/340-5252
  
  
•  Tulsa Geoscience Center, 507 S Main St 3rd floor, Tulsa, OK.  918/392-4556  Contact   FREE ADMISSION!  Click here for the Fall 2010 Calendar of Events/Resources
  
  • Media room: introduction to the Center and short video (Discovery Channel "When Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth"; Planet Earth episodes; "Fuel-less" movie; Why Earth Science?" video...more, depending on the age of the group
  • Fossil activity table, examine real fossils (100+) and learn about fossils found in Oklahoma and other locale to understand the past geography of all the continents, geological time, the reason we call petroleum and natural gas "fossil fuels"; lots of dinosaur fossils.
  • Porosity and Permeability; concentrated activities and experiments on the 3 rock types: Tasty Rocks, Smelly Rocks, Magnetic Rocks table: experiments with 3 rock types to discover rock properties of the 3 rock types, plus what type of rock geologists search for that "hold" oil; includes microscope activity with rock thin sections
  • Fluorescent Room: rock properties as they relate to fluorescent rocks; Long wave and short wave fluorescent lights bring ordinary rocks to life in brilliant colors in a darkened room; other unexpected items fluoresce too such as scorpions, a vial of oil from the Glenpool oilfield; and highlighters--students draw on their hands, arms, and faces and see the designs under a "black light" (Long wave)
  • Earthquake/Tsunami Room: students select a near real time earthquake on a list from the earthquakes that have already occurred on the day of their tour. They must locate the earthquakes on a large wall map using only longitude and latitude, and place a red dot on the map. All students participate in generating a mini earthquake and seeing it on an oscilloscope; brief discussion of plate tectonics, Pangea, faults, and subduction zones, the "Ring of Fire" in the Pacific Ocean and finally tsunami's. The tsunami activity allows all students to use their own tuning fork to generate energy that imitates an earthquake underwater in the ocean, and what happens to the ocean water when that energy is released (a tsunami!); slinky activities to demonstrate P & S waves
  • Petroleum Products Room: games to learn what everyday products are made with oil--- geoscience career possibilities; a petrochemistry activity where students make a rubber band with oil products, and silly putty, also from oil chemical wizardry
  • Rock & Mineral Room: major part of the rock and mineral collection is here for students to examine. Students are provided with their own box of minerals and rocks to use for these experiments to determine the hardness of each specimen, the smell, taste, magnetic properties, streak color, weight, etc. using glass and ceramic streak plates and magnets.
  • Fossil Dig Room: Everyone digs in the sand pits to locate a real extinct fossil to take home with them. Age of fossils: 165-300 million years old.
  • Seismitarium Room: geophysics introduction; how sound waves and vibrations are used to search for oil and natural gas; MAGIC BOX activity.
  • Recycling Activities
  • Boy Scout and Girl Scout geology merit badge/patch/belt loop classes
  
  
• Home School Day at the Oklahoma History Center is designed to offer family learners the chance to participate in a program specifically for mixed age groups.  The museum will offer a hands-on adventure into Oklahoma’s past.  Visitors can explore the museum with the help of gallery guides, follow along with our scavenger hunt for a prize, take part in hands-on demonstrations, and enjoy a variety of historical interpreters.  Students will find activities throughout the museums galleries as living history characters and museum staff bring the past to life through demonstrations and activities allowing kids of all ages to come, see, and explore.  Discover life on the cattle drive, investigate pioneer life and the tools of the day, play turn of the century games at the museum, and more!     Home School Day is designed for family learners and Home School groups to come, experience, and do!  No registration is required and you can join the activities at any time.  Best of all it is Free for kids!
  

 

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