Oklahoma+City


 * Travel Tips for Oklahoma City, OK:**
 * Oklahoma City Wikitravel Website:** []
 * Oklahoma City Brick town Wikitravel Website**: []
 * Oklahoma City Adventure District Wikitravel Website**: []
 * Norman Wikitravel Website**: [])
 * Tulsa Wikitravel Website**: []
 * Tulsa Wikitravel Website**: []


 * Mike Summers; September 2012:**

We went to Oklahoma City for a day-trip. We had a 10:35 am departure. The flight is only 75-90 minutes in length. Will Rogers World Airport is a very nice facility (Website: [] ) with easy access to rental cars, which are located across the curb from baggage claim. I used Thrifty and on this day-trip, it cost $26.79 with taxes. There is public bus transportation, which I didn't use, but here's the website for Oklahoma City Public Buses: []. The Airport Bus is Route #11. Here's a schedule for that bus: []. Note that it only serves the Airport three times per day on Monday - Friday. No service on Saturday and Sunday.

We drove over to the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. It's mainly a western art and artifact museum with a variety of permanent exhibitions. There are rodeo items, a firearms gallery, native american clothing and items, paintings, sculptures, and many other items (Website: [] ). Parking is free. I was pleasantly surprised by the variety and size of the collections. I highly recommend it!

Our second stop was the Oklahoma City National Memorial (Website: [] ). We found on-street metered parking along Harvey Street between NW 5th St. and NW 6th St. It takes a good hour to an hour and a half to go through the museum and visit the outdoor symbolic memorial and reflecting pool.

Lastly before heading back to the airport, we visited Bricktown. Bricktown is near downtown and the National Memorial (Websites: [] and []) ). There are numerous food establishments. We chose the Brickhouse Brewery (Website: [] ). Nonna's had a nice upstairs patio area that we didn't visit (Website: [] ). Bricktown has a lot of live music venues, and there is a canal where you can take boatrides like the Riverwalk in San Antonio. We weren't able to stay too late because our flight headed back to Denver at 6:55 PM.

If you chose to do an overnight, you could drive 25 minutes south on Interstate 35 to Norma, OK and visit the University of Oklahoma campus. Here's some websites for tourist attractions in the OKC area: [] and [].

We had a great day-trip. Give OKC a try sometime! Mike Summers


 * Mike Summers - December 2014:**

My dad was a World War II Master Sargent in the Artillery. So, my brother and I decided to take a trip to Oklahoma City, Fort Sill, and the Artillery Museum located there (Website: []  ) in Fort Sill. It was an easy 1 1/2 hour drive to the Fort, and an enjoyable visit at the museum. Fort Sill itself has a lot of history (Website: []  ) with the beginning of military aviation in 1915. Apache Chief Geronimo is buried on the fort along with many other Apache. Lawton is the nearest city with places to stay and eat. We liked the Silver Spoon for an early lunch. The next day we headed back to OKC.