I'm from Oklahoma, am Native American and you left out so much. Ok. is the ONLY state that encompasses every single ecosystem found on Earth! People think of Oklahoma and think the Great Plains, High Plains, The Sand Dunes, Salt Plain etc...but we have Mountains, Forests, Swamp land, we have MORE NATURAL LAKES than any other State. YOUR EMBARRASSING SMITHSONIAN. The Eastern Half of Oklahoma is called Green Country because it's BEAUTIFUL foothills and mountains and forests and very green in the spring and summer. Great Fishing and Hunting. Camping, Hiking. We have it all. I LOVE IT HERE. Especially now in these horrible trying times. You feel safe in Oklahoma, especially outside of OKC and Tulsa. Small town USA. OH...and we love Friday Night High School Football!
You got all of this right except for the natural lakes we have the most man made lakes. The flood control system the state did in the 50s and 60s worked pretty well.
People forget about the Arbuckles, Ouachita Mountains, and Wichita Mountains in Oklahoma. There really are a lot of beautiful places in OK if you give it a closer look.
I've stood on the very highest risk on top of mt. Scott, the highest elevation in Enid. Just noticed your profile pic. I've also been to Lawrence, and Tonganoxie, Ks.😉
So i remember the camels from back in the 60s. And also a jar of pickled eggs sitting on the counter at the little store there. Great Salt Plains Lake is fed by the Salt Fork River. The water is so salty that you can lay on top of the water and float. The lake is now full of silt. 4'+ of mud. Much of the lake is less than a foot deep, and the Army Corps of Engineers has decided not to dredge it out, rather let it revert to marshland for the water fowl that stops through on their migration. At the salt flats you can dig for a unique hourglass crystal called "selenite". The little Saharah and Salt Plains are roughly 56 miles apart, and +-50 from where i grew up in Enid.
Oklahoma has a lot of sad history, we are a strange place but I love it. My family was put here by the trail of tears... My family and friends are making new history here in which I am proud.
Something else they should put on here is, when the government tried to buy the town, the town rejected the offer... a coulpe years later a tornado destroyed the town!
I so appreciate that it's a place of sand, rather than soil and grasses. Off roading can destroy grasslands when they become popular sites for the sport.
When I saw this before the description was given of OK Grest Salt Plains, I was like it looks like salt flats,like I have in my state of Utah, known for salt flats
Kind of confusing geography. As an Oklahoman I know about the Great Salt Plains, but haven’t visited yet. It’s north and west of OKC. Pitcher, however is in the far northeast corner of the state, near Miami, OK and Joplin, MO. Not sure what the Great Salt Plains has to do with the ecological disaster brought on by the lead boom. Seems like someone tried to cram too much information in a tiny story and got things mismatched and mixed up. Did I miss something? Jan
Don't forget north of Altus is Quartz Mountain, a huge pile of rocks sittin' right there in the middle of the plains. I know the range starts over near Lawton, but still....
Oklahoma has some beautiful scenery in the eastern and southern parts of the state. Plus the people there are for the most part friendly and helpful. You have obviously never been there.
I have lived in OK much of my life and about 7 other states these last 10 years. OK is extremely boring, however it' safe, land is cheap, and ppl are amazingly polite and friendly.
OKLA HOMA I guess if you have no life it’s boring. But then Colorado must be bring too with all it’s majestic scenery and amazing things to do. The locals are all smoking marijuana because there’s “nothing better to do”...
I've lived all over the nation and around the world its by far the most boring place I have lived but like I said it has advantages that other places do not.