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We drove through there once a few years ago. Keep saying we are going back, but haven’t made it yet. I heard they have some nice hiking trails though
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Nice set up.
I want to do the OAT as soon as the shut down is over and we can travel. I also want to throw in a side trip to Black Mesa to finish out a trip that we didn't have enough time to make from a few years ago.
I've been looking at the OAT in Google Earth. I'm thinking it would take a good solid week to do.
I'm out of work until August so I need to get out of the house and clear my head once the shut down is over. My daughter wants to go, my wife is 50/50 right now.
Here's a Google Earth picture of the Oklahoma Adventure Trail. I took off all the way points and markers to make the route easier to see. It's something like 1,700 miles.
And the Google Earth KML file that I made.
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the small section that we did awhile back was more fun than we expected. There was quite a bit of stuff to see along the way (ft washita/Denton dam/texoma/carpenters bluff bridge/multiple other old bridges) that made our section from sulphur to Boswell take about 7 hours. We also stop for photos of things along the way as we have that hobby too.
until it changes, we are hoping to meander along it the first week of May. Stopping/camping as we find the sites along the way. With no real intention of trying to finish it in that week. However, I’m sure there are many section of just cruising along from what I’ve seen in my maps as well. so those may go quick.
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Gaia puts it at 1509 miles...
Sounds like a couple very long days to knock that out in a weekend.
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I've never heard of it and I've lived in OK a long time. Learn something new every day! Thank you for sharing that with me. That would be a neat way to explore more of Oklahoma.
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Ive done the section from bartlesville to great salt plains in 2 seperate sections. started around stillwater both times.1 day for each section, our average speed was around 13mph. We were enjoying the journey. The next section on my list is from I-40 down to Hugo. With a stop around broken bow to finish my exploration of the Forestry trails.
How long you reckon it would take to do it straight through? A week? give or take?
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To see everything and depending on time of year. some of the dirt roads become slimmy in the wet. When my tires hit the dirt I tend to slow down.
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Just realized I said a whole weekend. Lol Shit the Southwestern portion took me a weekend and I camped at Wichita Mountains. I would be down to knock out the other three remaining portions using I-35 and I-40 to split the state up into sections over a couple weekends.
I'm hoping that I will have enough cash left when our lock down ends to be able to take a week and run the whole trail.
But at some point, I'm going to have to find a new job.
But at some point, I'm going to have to find a new job.
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Is that like a state park or camp site? How would I get there? What do I google to get that place?
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www.redrockcanyonadventurepark.com
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Had no idea they had a website. We drove through years ago looked pretty nice. We were just passing through on way to great salt plains state park that day though so we didn’t look around a lot.HOME
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We are headed out west on the OAT starting around turner falls in the morning! Planning to casually work out way around it, camping along the way. If anyone else happens to be out there and sees us, give me a shout! I’m not hard to spot. Lol
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New member here just joined. I am in Oklahoma. Southern Oklahoma. 50 miles south of OKC
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