Oklahoma Field Trips

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. 

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

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

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

Be inspired by orchestral music, ballet, or take in a musical at Civic Center Music Hall, 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

See the Overholser Mansion, 1903 Victorian mansion, 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

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

Take in the Red Earth Museum, with its large display of cradleboards and hands-on exhibits, in the Oklahoma City Kirkpatrick Science and Air Space Museum.

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 Historial Museum in Waurika

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 in 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

Go to the Oklahoma City Blazers hockey games

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

Take a float trip on the Illinois River, rent your canoe near Tahlequah

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

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

Let the little ones ride the old-fashioned 30 cent rides at the Kiddie Park at Johnstone Park, Bartlesville

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