YOUR GUIDE OFFICIAL TO ENJOYING VISITOR GUIDE NORTHWEST AND 2018 NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA Red Carpet Country
Photo by Lyndon Johnson Northwest and North Central Oklahoma’s RED CARPET COUNTRY YOUR OFFICIAL GUIDE TO ENJOYING 2018 Edition NORTHWEST AND Red Carpet Country Association NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA 222 East Maple, Suite 400 Enid, OK 73701 Phone: 580-327-4918 Internet Information Website: RedCarpetCountry.com Email: [email protected] Red Carpet Country Executive Committee President Kenton Baird VP-Marketing: Marcy Jarrett Secretary: Linda Barrett CONTENTS Treasurer: David Trimble Past President: Jeanne Cole Red Carpet Country Staff Executive Director: Carla Burdick Board of Directors Schaun Aker, Kenton Baird, JaNae Barnard, Linda Barrett, Noel Black, Jeanne Cole, Robbin Davis, Miranda Gilbert, Mary Haney, Buddy Holbert, Marcy Jarrett, Lynda Latta, Dea Mandevill, Kelsey Martin, Johnny Owens, Jody CITY DIRECTORY RED CARPET COUNTRY Risley, Jennifer Straffon and David Trimble. Aline...... 17 Kenton...... 4 BUSINESS MEMBER DIRECTORY Alva...... 14 Kingfisher...... 22 pg 31 Red Carpet Country Beaver...... 6 2018 Edition Laverne...... 8 CALENDAR OF EVENTS Blackwell...... 36 Medford...... 30 pg 32-33 This publication is produced in Boise City...... 4 Okarche...... 22 For additional information, activities cooperation with the Oklahoma Tourism Buffalo...... 8 Okeene...... 23 & events visit RedCarpetCountry.com and Recreation Department. For more Canton...... 24 Perry...... 36 information about Oklahoma call Cherokee...... 17 Ponca City...... 37 RED CARPET COUNTRY MAP pg 34-35 1-800-652-6552 Chisholm Trail...... 23 Ringwood...... 18 or visit TravelOK.com. Enid...... 28 Shattuck...... 12 Museums, Attractions, Recreational Areas, and more Design: Creative Fuel Design Studio, 316-253-3492 Fairview...... 18 Taloga...... 12 Printing: McCormick Armstrong Freedom...... 14 Tonkawa...... 36 Cover Design: Bob Ale-Ebrahim Geary...... 23 Wakita...... 30 Publisher: Red Carpet Country Association Guymon...... 4 Watonga...... 26 Editor: Carla Burdick Hennessey...... 22 Waynoka...... 14 Art Director: Bob Ale-Ebrahim Hooker...... 6 Woodward...... 10 Photographers: Bob Ale-Ebrahim, Cherokee News, Kaw Lake (Kaw City).... 37 Dakstone Fleming, Guymon CVB, Major County Economic Development, Lyndon Johnson, Northern WELCOME TO RED CARPET COUNTRY Oklahoma College, Oklahoma Tourism, Yvelle Pfleider, Towering red mesas, a proud Western heritage and some of the most unique natural wonders in Oklahoma Elizabeth Solomon, Marshalene Wimer, Woodward are the hallmarks of Northwest and North Central Oklahoma known as Red Carpet Country. The Red Carpet CVB, Visit Enid, and the Watonga Republican. Country regional tourism organization represents 16 counties in northwest and north central Oklahoma. Advertising Sales: Carla Burdick • 580.327.4918 A mild climate, rich history, amazing museums and abundant fishing and hunting make Red Carpet Country a popular tourism destination. RedCarpetCountry.com Red Carpet Country is home to many annual events and festivals including the Elk’s Rodeo in Woodward, one of the largest car shows in Hooker, the Rattlesnake Round-up in Waynoka, Nightmare in the Country near 580.327.4918 Woodward, the Watonga Cheese Festival and Ponca City’s Herb Festival. There are a number of annual For additional copies contact Red Carpet Country Cherokee Strip celebrations, which mark the great land run of 1893 that opened the region for settlement. Northwest and North Central Oklahoma’s Our area also host several wineries and tasting rooms for the adults. Leonardo’s Children’s Museum and Red Carpet Country is the official publication Adventure Quest, in Enid, are fun for the whole family. A calendar of events can be found on pages 32 & 33. of the Red Carpet Country Association. Projected The region’s rich culture and history are captured in a number of fascinating museums and historic sites readership is approximately 210,000. 40,000 including the Pioneer Woman Statue & Museum in Ponca City, Cimarron Historical Center in Boise City, Sod copies were printed at a cost of 36¢ each. House Museum in Aline, Waynoka Air & Rail Museum, Windmill Museum in Shattuck, TB Ferguson Home in ©2018 by Red Carpet Country Watonga, Plains Indian & Pioneer Museum in Woodward, Twister Movie Museum in Wakita, Sand Creek Museum in Fairview, Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid. Many more are listed on page 35. Great Salt Plains Lake, one of the largest inland salt lakes in the United States is located between Cherokee and Jet. Rare selenite crystals are hidden just beneath the surface of the salt flats and provides hours of entertainment digging for crystals. In the fall and winter months the Great Salt Plains is a bird watchers haven. We are home to Sand Dunes in Beaver, and the Little Sahara State Park in Waynoka, known as one of the best ATV riding spots in the Midwest and is the busiest state park in Oklahoma. Alabaster Caverns State Park, between Freedom and Mooreland, features the largest natural gypsum cave in the world open to the public. The Black Mesa is the state’s highest peak and the Gloss Mountains offer a stunning 360 degree view that is not to be missed. A complete list of state parks and recreational areas can be found on page 34. Like the Red Carpet Country Facebook page and visit our website – RedCarpetCountry.com – to discover information on festivals, events and activities, including our annual tourism conference, which will be at the Woodward Conference Center, August 28, 2018. We hope you enjoy your stay in Red Carpet County – we’re thrilled to have you here! 2 | 2018 RedCarpetCountry.com
KENTON (Cimarron County)
Often referred to as “Oklahoma’s ranch experience. There are several Best Kept Secret”, the Dry Cimarron outstanding bed and breakfasts in Black Valley is one of the most unique areas Mesa country, including the Black Mesa of the United States. Hike the rugged, Bed & Breakfast. The Black Mesa area Attractions volcanic Black Mesa, the highest point will surpass all your expectations. Okie-Tex Star Party, Kenton in the state of Oklahoma. Kenton area’s Known world-wide for their dark Easter Pageant, Kenton Museum, Black lava formations includes dinosaur tracks, skies, Camp Billy Joe near Kenton hosts Mesa State Park, Lake Carl Etling Indian pictographs, caves and many the annual Okie-Tex Star Party, October Photo Opportunities peculiar rock formations. Visit Black 6-14, 2018. The Kenton Easter Pageant, Black Mesa Park, Highest Point Mesa State Park and Lake Carl Etling a live reenactment of Christ’s crucifixion Marker, Tri-State Marker, Dinosaur to experience great fishing, camping and resurrection is another must see Tracks, Rock Formations and hiking. event. It is held, every year, on the Historical Significance Stay at the Hitching Post Bed & Saturday and Sunday of Easter weekend. Dinosaur tracks and lava formations Breakfast for a one of a kind working can be found here found here and it is said that the area has been occupied by man as far back as 10,000 year!
BOISE CITY (Cimarron County)
Boise City is renowned as the only U.S. city “bombed” during WWII. It offers lodging, dining, shopping and Attractions the Cimarron County County Music Cimarron Heritage Center Museum, Theater. Cimarron County is the only Cimarron County Music Theater U.S. county to touch five states. Photo Opportunities Boise City is home to the Cimarron Cimmaron County Courthouse, Heritage Center Museum, one of the World War II Bombing Site Memorial, best local museums in the state of Cimarron Heritage Center, Oklahoma. The museum features Autograph Rock the Dust Bowl ear, the Santa Fe Trail, Historical Significance local history, and a one of a kind In 1943 a B-17 bomber dropped six dinosaur exhibit. practice bombs on Boise City. Claim to fame as being one of the few towns bombed during WWII.
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GUYMON (Texas County)
Guymon is a melting pot of culture, arts, festivals, and hospitality for travelers. It’s rich in Pioneer history, Western panoramas and diversity with Attractions over 25 dialects. Guymon is home to Azuma African Festival, Sunset Hills the Rodeo Hall of Fame PRCA’s Pioneer Golf Course, & Frisbee Golf, Pioneer Days Rodeo, Azuma African Festival, Days Celebration & Rodeo, Five State and Fiesta Day. Enjoy the Five State Motorcycle Run, No Man’s Land Motorcycle Run, a 300 mile ride Museum, OPSU Golf Course, Guymon in one day. Community Theatre, R/C Air Craft Guymon’s Downtown Cultural Arts Field, Guymon Fiesta! District offers an arts center, community theatre, historic sites, artist studios, Photo Opportunities wine bar, pub, BBQ, cheese, retail and Sunset Lake, Wildlife Refuge, more. The stocked Sunset Lake is Guymon’s Cultural Downtown adjacent to the Wildlife Refuge’s bison, District Texas Longhorns, and elk. Historical Significance Sunset Hills 18-hole golf course Guymon experienced the brunt of carries a USGA 69 rating with a slope severe wind damage during the of 117 and is a junior golf national Dust Bowl, April 26, 1930. automatic exemption site. Guymon also has a disc golf course, four walking trails, and parks. 4 | 2018 RedCarpetCountry.com
HOOKER (Texas County)
Hooker hosts one of the largest car superb schools, and growth potential. March 24 and the Annual Hot Dogs in shows in Oklahoma. Hooker is located There are a growing number of locally the Park is on Independence Day. Hooker near the center of the Oklahoma owned businesses in Hooker and they has a Halloween parade and a Christmas Panhandle along US Highway 54, are home to many events and festivals. parade. Plan to enjoy Hooker’s many and is the second largest community The Annual Hooker Car Show is on the events, charming boutiques and in Texas County. With a proud history Saturday after Labor Day, in downtown delicious dining options. and a bright future, Hooker is a thriving Hooker. Spring Fling will be on April 21, community with strong rural values, the Annual Easter Egg Hunt is on
Attractions Historical Significance Hooker Car Show, Spring Fling As part of No Man’s Land, Hooker Red Carpet Country stood outside the boundaries of the Photo Contest Photo Opportunities surrounding territories until it was Take pictures during your Historic Downtown attached to Oklahoma Territory in Red Carpet Country visit and enter them in our Photo Contest - 1890. Mainly cattlemen utilized the Go to RedCarpetCountry.com land, but in the 1880s settlers began for contest rules. to homestead on this public strip. BEAVER (Beaver County)
Beaver is home to the nation’s most unusual competition - The Annual World Cow Chip Throwing Contest, held every April. Come see dozens of folks flinging Attractions “cow patty” pies yards down the way. Annual Cow Chip Throw, Beaver Dunes Don’t worry, you’ll never get pooped Park, Gateway to the Panhandle Museum in Beaver - we watch where we sling! in Gate, Beaver Pioneer Park Golf Course, The rest of the year enjoy Beaver Dunes Jones & Plummer Trial Museum, Beaver Park, 520 acres of dune buggy rides on River Wildlife Area 300 acres of sand hills - fish and hike too at the Beaver Dunes Park lake. Historical Significance The Presbyterian Church built in 1887 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as “the oldest church in Oklahoma Territory” Photo Opportunities Beaver Dunes Park, located in the sandy panhandle city of Beaver, offers sand hills, as well as fishing, hiking trails, a playground and two campgrounds.
6 | 2018 RedCarpetCountry.com Hooker 2018 Schedule of Events March 24, Annual Easter Egg Hunt Hooker Park November: Lights begin to appear in Homesteader’s Park, April 21, Third Annual Spring Fling Downtown. snowflakes on the downtown light poles, and elves, trees Cultural music, dancing, food and games. and lighted train in the Downtown Park. July 4, Hot Dogs in Hooker Park, Fireworks after dark December 1, Annual Christmas Parade. Prizes give $150 at the Blackmer Municipal Golf Course. first, $100 Second, $50 Third in the Youth Group and Community categories. September 8, The 12th Annual Hooker Car Show in Downtown Hooker. HookerCarShow.com Sponsored City wide Christmas lighting contest October 31, Halloween Costume Parade Downtown Dec. 13, Cookie Crawl: For a donation to a local charity, Hooker. Each participant will receive a 50 cent piece. participant will receive a box and can visit local businesses from 4-6 and pick up a cookie. Most businesses will have a merchant drawing, and some will have other refreshments. For more information: Parks and Rec. Director: 580-652-3135 City offices: 580-652-2885 PO Box 67 Hooker, Ok 73945 Chamber Store: 580-652-2809 Box 989 Hooker, Ok 73945 hookerchamber.com (can buy world famous Hooker TShirts online www.facebook.com/hookercofc/ • www.facebook.com/hookerokla/ www.facebook.com/CityofHooker1907 www.hookeroklahoma.net/ 2018 RedCarpetCountry.com | 7 BUFFALO (Harper County)
The Town of Buffalo is centrally events throughout the summer. Buffalo located in Harper County. One of is home to many events and programs, the significant events is the July 4th such as the Red Rock Flea Market & Celebration in the Park, a day of games Rummage; Townwide Garage Sale day; for the whole family; open entry co-ed Old Settlers Picnic, and Homecoming softball tournament, entertainment, BHS; Stone City Park Christmas Display, fellowship and free hamburgers and Crafters Christmas Mall, and Santa Day. Cattle Trail runs thru the county, as well hotdogs, and a wondrous display The Doby Spring’s Golf Course is a as the Fort Dodge–Fort Supply Military of fireworks closes the day. The Harper challenging 9-hole course we are proud Supply Trail, from by gone days of the County Round-up Club will again of, West of Town beside Doby Springs area. The Buffalo Museum has artifacts showcase the youth with a variety of Park and Recreational area. The Western of this history and older: Dinosaurs!
Attractions Historical Significance Photo Opportunities Doby Spring’s Golf Course, Doby Spring’s In 1907, the town was “staked out” and Buffalo Veterans Memorial Park & Recreational area, Buffalo Museum, a post office was established with the Park, the Beautiful Canyons Canyons and Trails name Buffalo, which was derived from nearby Buffalo Creek. Buffalo’s founders issued instructions for all buildings to be built of stone, thereby many of those structures survived the test of time.
LAVERNE (Harper County)
As you head west into the Oklahoma one of our locally owned restaurants. Panhandle, you won’t want to miss the Laverne also boasts a clean, friendly town of Laverne! Surrounded by rolling motel at a great price for those coming prairie pastures and waving wheat to shop, visit family and friends, play fields, Laverne is the perfect picture of a round of golf on our lovely course, and relax while enjoying some of the small town USA. We are full of love for or take advantage of the wonderful most beautiful sunrises and sunsets in our community, loyalty to our Laverne hunting opportunities our area has to Northwest Oklahoma! Get out for some Tigers and our heritage, and local flare offer. Our RV hook-up locations along exercise on our 3-mile recreation trail. shaped by our strong history of farming with our laundry mat make camping an With our health clinic, vision clinic, and and ranching dating back to before option too! dentist office here in town, we can also statehood. Don’t be surprised when Just passing through? Be sure to fill meet unexpected health needs if they each person you meet gives a friendly up on fuel and grab a quick snack at one arise during your visit. wave or the locals at the coffee shops of our many filling stations and stop For those who have never around town strike up a conversation by our beautiful park to let your family participated in a small town 4th of as if you have been friends for years! stretch their legs. Our rocket ship slide July Celebration, Laverne is the place Our variety of businesses in town is sure to impress kids of all ages! to be! Known far and wide for its 4th make Laverne a one-stop-shop. From If you find yourself in town for of July events, Laverne hosts the true flowers and gifts to home appliances to several days, we have everything you All-American Independence Day tools and auto parts, along with a large need to feel right at home and to keep Celebration complete with a large assortment of items you can pick up in you busy. Take a dip in our pool, go parade, turtle races, volleyball and our grocery store and new variety store, explore the history of our community basketball tournaments, softball you will be sure to find anything and at our museum, browse through our games, free dinner and entertainment everything you need without the hassle large selection of reading material at at the park, homemade ice cream, of big city traffic. Plus, while you are the library, stop by our assisted living and an amazing fireworks display! in town, pamper yourself at the salon facility to join our senior residents for with a new haircut and a tasty meal at a fun game of bingo, or just sit back
Attractions Historical Significance Photo Opportunities 4th of July Celebration, Laverne Laverne is home of the 1967 Miss Historic Downtown, Veterans Memorial Recreational Trail, Lake Evans America, Jane Jayroe! Laverne was Chambers,Laverne Community named for Laverne Smith a local resident. Museum, Laverne Golf & Country Laverne was nicknamed “the Oil Capital Club, Laverne Community Museum, of Northwest Oklahoma” during the Laverne Golf & Country Club 1950’s oil boom. The Laverne area prospered as petroleum and pipeline companies opened local facilities.
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Attractions Boiling Springs State Park and Golf Course, Aquatics Center Water Park, Sports Complex, Golf Course, & Crystal Christmas Drive-thru Light Display, Elk’s Rodeo, The Plains Indians & Pioneers Museum, Woodward Arts Theatre , Nightmare in the Country, Kenny Farms, Fort Supply Historic Site, Barn Quilt Trails, Woodward Fairgrounds & Event Center, Larry Hill Art Studio, Susan Sims Art Studio, Walking Trails, Covington’s Cycle City custom motorcycles, Lakeside Cinema 6, Woodward Bowling Center Photo Opportunities Crystal Beach Park & Woodward County Fairgrounds, Historic Downtown Woodward, The Plains Indians & Pioneers Museum, Josie Adams Cultural Center, L.L. Stine House
Historical Significance Originally, the area was the home of Kiowa, Cheyenne, Comanche and Arapahoe tribes. The town of Woodward was established in 1887 when the railroad arrived. Located in the western quadrant of the Cherokee Outlet, the town began 6 years before the outlet was officially opened to non-Indian settlers as it was needed as a provisioning point for Fort Supply. Woodward has been a trade center ever since. The railroad made Woodward a stop on the Great Western Cattle Trail, and Woodward grew as the depot shipped thousands Woodward is the gateway to NW for the professional and casual angler, Gypsum Caverns that are open and of cattle back east. Woodward soon Oklahoma – rolling plains, towering as well as tennis courts, football fields, accessible to the public. The Cimarron got a reputation as a rough-and- mesas and spectacular sunsets that indoor and outdoor sports facilities, Bluff Wildlife Management area is tumble frontier town, and tales of ignite the whole sky; Woodward has picnic areas and a band-shell for the another spectacular day out from the gunfights of the famous attorney definitely put the “great” into the great performing arts. The Crystal Beach Lake Woodward with quail, deer, and turkey, Temple Houston are still told today. outdoors. With genuine hometown facility has become a focal point for all visible in their natural environment. During the Great Depression, local hospitality and Wild West history, Woodward’s residents and a permanent Fort Supply Historic Site is the site of Works Progress Administration Woodward is the place where you can home for the Elks Rodeo, which began the original 19th Century army camp projects included the damming of an see how the enduring spirit of the in 1929. where General George Custer spent artesian well (a failed oil well venture) original pioneers still lives on. The Plains Indians & Pioneers time during the US Government’s to form Crystal Beach Lake and its Boiling Springs State Park is a natural Museum provides visitors with a taste campaign against the Plains Indians. adjacent park. Woodward’s story ‘oasis on the plains’, one of the original of the days of the old Wild West. Today, the energy industry is more forever changed the night of April 9, seven State Parks built in the 1930’s, Murals by Paul Laune and Pat “Kemoha” important than ever. Woodward leads 1947 when a tornado ripped across the park is named after the natural Patterson show the lifestyle of the NW the way in ‘green’ technology with the city. History would now be ‘boiling’ spring that still flows and keeps Oklahoman Native Americans and trace more than 450 wind-powered turbines measured as having happened the lake full and surrounding land fertile the settlement of the first pioneers. lining the hills surrounding Woodward, before or after the tornado! In late through even the driest of summers. Follow the retro sign to downtown generating power and employing November 1956, Woodward began Nestled on the edge of the State Park is and stop in at the Woodward Arts hundreds in the area. a new adventure - oil and gas the Boiling Springs Golf Course, one of Theatre, originally built in 1929; this Woodward has a wide variety of production. McCormick #1 became the finest municipal golf courses in the beautifully restored theatre now hosts hotels, all offering their guests a warm the country’s discovery gas well, country provides players with one of the a wide variety of performances from NW Oklahoma welcome with a range and a boom of more than twenty most challenging playing experiences in both local and traveling acts as well as of amenities and facilities to suit every years followed. the region. annual events such as the Twister Alley guest. From fast food to fine dining, Crystal Beach Park is the sports and International Film Festival held in spring there are plenty of restaurants to leisure centerpiece for the City of of each year. choose from in Woodward, with true Woodward. State of the art playground Within a short drive of Woodward American style diners, continental cafes equipment can be found throughout the great outdoors really comes to life and good old fashioned pub food, there the park which also includes the Crystal and there are numerous natural and is something to satisfy every appetite Beach Aquatics Center, Fuller Park man-made attractions to explore. and everyone. Baseball field, a spring fed lake that is Half an hour from Woodward are the Woodward – your gateway to always stocked with a variety of fish Alabaster Caverns, the world’s largest NW Oklahoma.
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Taloga is located in west-central looking for lodging, Taloga has a motel Oklahoma and the Dewey County seat. and RV Park. You can experience the Dewey County Dewey County has many great Free Fair every September, and you communities, including Leedey, Seiling, can visit the Dewey County Jailhouse and Vici. The Indian Record Inc. of Fay Museum year-round. Taloga offers a is an Indian trading post offering unique shopping opportunities, beaded crafts and Native American including the B&B Sew Unique shop music. Leedey is the home of the and the Art on 183 art center. If you are Boswell Museum.
Attractions Historical Significance Dewey County Free Fair, Boswell Museum The area was formerly part of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Reservation of Leedey, Indian Records Inc. of Fay and lies mostly in the Gypsum Hills physiographic region. The county’s prehistory is represented by one Paleo-Indian site, forty-one Archaic Photo Opportunities sites, fifteen Woodland sites, and thirty-five Plains Village sites. Dewey County Jailhouse Museum, Taloga City Park SHATTUCK (Ellis County)
Shattuck, the largest city in Ellis County from 1838 to 1982. Shattuck’s legendary is a commercial hub, with a strong Chamber Newman Memorial Hospital (est. 1920) of Commerce comprised of nearly100 serves a tri-state region! The life and legacy businesses and organizations. The of founding pioneer physician, O.C. well-maintained City Golf Course is a Newman is detailed in the popular Attractions favorite for area corporate tournaments novel “Hang Onto the Willows.” Shattuck City Golf Course, Windmill and features a weekly open scramble. In 2010, Newman Memorial Hospital Centrally located, City Park has all new completed a 5 million dollar renovation Museum and Park, Barn Quilt Tours, playground equipment, a large public and continues to build new service Gage Artesian Beach, Lake Vincent pool, tennis courts and brand new lines for the community through covered picnic facilities! Enjoy a Nature ever-expanding specialty clinics and Historical Significance Walk or jog at the mile-long Lighted the addition of Urgent Care Services. Opened to non-Indian settlement by Walking Trail at Centennial Lake. Be sure Shattuck is north of the picturesque land run in 1893. Germans from Russia to catch a drive-in movie or visit the Antelope Hills, and situated between settled in the area in 1901 and 1902. Windmill Museum and Park. the Canadian River and Wolf Creek. The Stuart Memorial Building The area is a hunter’s paradise with Photo Opportunities (listed on the National Historic Register) an abundance of quail, turkey and Centennial Lake, Windmill Museum houses the Shattuck Public Library. deer. Shattuck is home to a variety and Park, Antelope Hills Inside the enormous brick structure, wall of restaurants, charming guest murals depict the history of Shattuck houses and multiple RV parks.
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Alva was established in 1893 as a land Hatchery, Little Sahara State Park, The Great office from the Cherokee Outlet Land Run, Salt Plains Lake and State Park, Alabaster the largest of the land rushes that settled Caverns State Park and the Twister Museum western and central Oklahoma. The site in Wakita. Attractions was likely named for a railroad attorney, Alva The Cherokee Strip Museum of Alva is Bradt’s Menagerie Petting Farm, Little Adams, who had become governor located in the former Alva General Hospital. Sahara State Park, Alabaster Caverns of Colorado. Upon visiting the Museum you will find State Park, Great Salt Plains State Park, Today, the city council is actively soliciting many authentic historical items displayed Graceful Arts, Cherokee Strip Museum, murals -- one of the most recent is of the in one of the 40 rooms throughout the Alva Golf & Country Club, Cherokee Strip storied “Castle on the Hill.” Marvelous murals building. Local families whose ancestors Museum, Alva Municipal Airport Museum, can be found throughout the town square. settled in Woods County at the time of the NWOSU Museum of Natural History The Runnymede has an interesting history 1893 land run are striving to see that history and provides a community room with a full is preserved and future generations have Historical Significance kitchen. The Alva Community Theatre, Inc. these artifacts to see and understand their The town’s primary economic base has (ACT 1) offers live entertainment in June and heritage. An authentic one room school been agriculture since the arrival of the November. Alva hosts a First Friday Art Walk house is located on the museum complex. first homesteaders. on the first Friday of each month in Alva’s Classes are taught in the spring in the school Arts & Shopping District. In September, join house and conducted as an early day Photo Opportunities us for the RACE Big Cruise & Car Show. “country” school. Special treasures in the Downtown Town Square, The Runnymede, Alva is a destination for numerous Museum are artifacts from the German NWOSU Campus northwest Oklahoma attractions, such as P.O.W. camp stationed in Alva during Bradt’s Menagerie Petting Farm, Byron’s Fish World War II. FREEDOM (Woods County) The community of Freedom is visitor a network of stairs, handrails known as the smallest certified city and well carved pathways allow you (as opposed to a town) in the state of to experience the magnificence and Oklahoma. The Alabaster Caverns State majesty of this cave system. Attractions Park is south of Freedom. The Alabaster In Freedom, you can experience Alabaster Caverns State Park, Freedom Caverns are the world’s largest Gypsum the Freedom Museum and the Museum, Rhodes Arena, Freedom Rodeo & Caverns that are open to the accessible Cimarron Cowboys monument in Old Cowhand Event public. The more adventurous can go the city park. Don’t miss the Freedom spelunking throughout the cave system; Rodeo & Old Cowhand Reunion event. Historical Significance however, for the more down to earth Grab a bite to eat at The Store, Camp In 1878, the Battle of Turkey Springs was Photo Opportunities Houston, Maria’s Café, or Stables fought approximately ten miles northeast of Alabaster Caverns State Park, Freedom Museum, Murals, Cimarron Steakhouse. If you are looking for present-day Freedom. It was the last known Cowboys monument, Mural, Freedom Rodeo Scene, Old Time Freedom lodging, try the Sage and Saddle Bed encounter between the United States Cavalry Buildings, the Christmas tree in the middle of Main Street & Breakfast, Stables Resort, Freedom and American Indians in Oklahoma. Cabins, and several RV parks. WAYNOKA (Woods County)
Waynoka is known as the Little City yes, you can taste snake meat. There by the Sand. Little Sahara State Park is are carnival rides for the young and nearly 2,000 acres of living sand dunes young at heart, food and merchandise and is only 3 miles from downtown vendors line the streets and an area the Harvey House Depot stand next to Waynoka. It is among the most popular ABATE Chapter hosts a Biker Rodeo on one of America’s fastest and busiest rail sand dune parks in the nation, open Saturday at our rodeo grounds. Snakes lines, the BNSF Transcon. The Waynoka 24 hours a day, seven days a week. are measured and prizes awarded on Air Rail Museum showcases Waynoka Camping has been made easier with Sunday afternoon to complete the transportation history on the second online reservations at the park. Find weekend. This three day event has floor of the Harvey House. Both the camping information for Little Sahara something for everyone! Harvey House and Santa Fe Depot State Park at www.travelok.com. There Waynoka is known for the Cimarron are listed on the National Register of are multiple private campgrounds located River Stampede Rodeo, the oldest Photo by Elizabeth Solomon Historic Places. Train watching abounds adjacent to the park, as well as a motel ongoing rodeo in the area, celebrating in Waynoka and the surrounding area. Attractions and weekend rentals for those who the 82nd year in 2018. Sanctioned Just south of Waynoka blacktop roads Annual Rattlesnake Roundup, Cimarron want more comfort than camping by UPRA, KPRA, IPRA & open rodeo lead out to the countryside where the River Stampede Rodeo, Harvey House, allows. You can ride your ATV or ORV associations, this event is held the scenic vistas show off beautiful sun rises Santa Fe Depot, Waynoka Air Rail Museum on our trail to town and park on the second weekend in August and attracts and sunsets. It’s no wonder that Charles street in front of your favorite store or some of the best rodeo cowboys and Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart found Historical Significance eating establishment, get your fuel or was ranked in 2016 by UPRA at #1 Waynoka such a charming place to visit! In 1929 Transcontinental Air Transport built riding accessories, camping supplies or nationally for highest paying added Oklahoma’s first transcontinental airport at groceries for the weekend; it’s all money. Thursday night is kid’s night, a site selected by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh available right in Waynoka. with special events and activities five miles northeast of Waynoka. Lindbergh The 72nd Annual Rattlesnake just for them. You’ll enjoy the special and Amelia Earhart were officers in the Roundup happens the first weekend performances nightly that include the company and became familiar faces in town. after Easter. During this annual event thrilling musical chairs race! Food our town grows by 10-20 times our vendors are on sight at the rodeo Photo Opportunities usual population with all kinds of folks grounds with specialties like meatloaf Little Sahara State Park, Surrounding looking for fun, and they find it here in burgers and chicken fry sandwiches. Red Flats, Curtis Hill (the BNSF rail line) Waynoka. Hunters bring in the snakes Bring your appetite and your during the weekend and visitors can enthusiasm and enjoy three great brave the Den of Death to get a close up nights of rodeo at its finest. view. The butcher shop will be open, and One of the historical treasures, 14 | 2018 RedCarpetCountry.com Photo by Elizabeth Solomon 2018 RedCarpetCountry.com | 15 16 | 2018 RedCarpetCountry.com CHEROKEE (Alfalfa County)
The City of Cherokee events begin the beautiful 4th of July firework display. each year in early spring with the annual Put on your boots and hat August Bird and Crystal Festival at The Great 24th- 25th for The Great Salt Plains Salt Plains Park and Bird Refuge Area. Stampede Rodeo & Parade. The Alfalfa In December the Christmas Open from April 15 to October 15 these County Fairground facility provides the celebration each year holds special state and Federal park areas offer not excitement you expect from this local meaning as the Christmas Parade only bird watching at the refuge, but event. Visitors will experience cutting, brings the year to a close with lights, the chance of a lifetime to dig for one barrel racing, and of course bronc riding Food, Prize Giveaways, and of course, of a kind, unique, fragile hour-glass from exceptional cowboys and cowgirls a visit from Santa. crystal’s that challenge even the most at this event. The City of Cherokee and the experienced digger. The October Stroll held the first Main Street organization strive to The home town 4th of July in Saturday in October is a must for the bring you the best experience possible Cherokee offer’s old fashioned fun and downtown shopper. Fun Games for throughout the year. Visit us in games in the city park complete with the kids, food vendors and of course Cherokee on highway 64 just north food, games, train rides, swimming and shopping on Grand Avenue with over of Enid. more. Activities then continue at Alfalfa 35 vendors make a wonderful County Fairgrounds into nightfall with experience for all.
Attractions Historical Significance Photo Opportunities Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge, The Works Progress Administration Great Salt Plains The Great Salt Plains State Park, (WPA) completed construction of The Great Salt Plains Stampede Rodeo, a National Guard Armory in 1937 Jet Museum in Jet, Selenite Crystal Dig, along with a public library in 1939. Byron’s State Fish Hatchery
ALINE (Alfalfa County)
Aline hosts a Fall Fair on the second weekend in October. The celebration is kicked off Friday evening with cannon firing bowling balls and homemade cake and ice cream. Saturday morning the motor cycle poker run leads the parade. Visitors can enjoy soup cooked in an 80, 30 and 20 gallon cast iron kettles the old fashioned way; outdoors on an open fire. This tradition was started after WWII. Also look for craft booths, cake walk and traditional games for the entire family. Just southeast of Aline is a unique attraction that you don’t want to miss. At one time there were thousands of sod houses dotting the plains of North America. This “Soddy,” built by Marshal McCully in 1894, is the only one still standing in Oklahoma that was built by a homesteader. Marshall McCully made the Cherokee Outlet Land Run of 1893 staking his claim south of Aline, Oklahoma. He built his two-room home with one-half acre of thick buffalo grass sod and used alkali clay to plaster the inside walls. Completed in 1894 McCully added a wood floor one year later in 1895. Today the museum encloses the original Sod House.
Attractions The Sod House Museum, Ralph Cain Jr. Memorial Newspaper Museum in Carmen Historical Significance The Sod House just outside of Aline, Oklahoma is the only one still standing that was built by a homesteader. Photo Opportunities The Sod House Museum
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Fairview is a vibrant city offering visitors a blend of spectacular natural beauty and enjoyable outdoor recreation Attractions including water, mesas, prairies, wineries, Plymouth Valley Cellars, Sand Creek hunting, fishing, golfing, racing and Heritage Museum, Fairview Community dunes. Fairview is positioned at the Golf Course, Gloss Mountain State Park, foothills of the Gloss Mountains and The Royal Theater, Fairview Aquatic Center, travelers from all over the world come Fairview Lanes Bowling Alley, Fairview City to relish the unbeatable view of the rustic, Library, Northwest Technology Center, multi-hued, sparkling mesas only found Fairview Community Center in Major County. Adventure awaits in Fairview – the Historical Significance perfect spot to launch day trips! Taste Fairview was settled following the Oklahoma history at a local winery. Cherokee Outlet land opening on Unplug and play a round at Legacy Golf September 16, 1893. Course. Take in a fun annual event like Photo Opportunities the Gloss Mountain Cruiser’s Car Show Glass Mountains, Plymouth Valley Cellars, and Cruise held the Saturday of Labor Sand Creek Heritage Museum & the Day Weekend, the world’s largest working Major County Historical Site, Additional Threshing Bees every September at photo from the Fairview – Major County Sand Creek Heritage Museum or the Historical Society – Sand Creek Museum world’s oldest Free Fly-In and Air Show at the Fairview Airport. Fairview – Your Gateway to Outdoor Adventure!
Photo by Marshalene Wimer
RINGWOOD (Major County)
Ringwood is home to Indian Creek Village Winery Bed and Breakfast, an elegant and unique destination for fun Attractions and relaxing. Lodging and amenities Indian Creek Winery, Ames include the Bed & Breakfast, Wedding Astobleme Museum, Hajek Chapel and Event Center. Ringwood Motorsports Museum in Ames hosts an annual Watermelon Festival and the Community Christmas Festival. Historical Significance The area around Ringwood was settled following the Cherokee Outlet Opening on September 16, 1893. John Daniel Branham, the first postmaster, selected Red Carpet Country Photo Contest Take pictures during your the name Ringwood for the town because Red Carpet Country visit and enter the townsite was ringed by woods from them in our Photo Contest - the northwest to the southeast. Go to RedCarpetCountry.com for contest rules. Photo Opportunities Indian Creek Winery
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origins are agricultural and oil and gas seismograph; Dr. Violet Sturgeon, the first exploration, industries which continue to woman to hold office in the Oklahoma grow and draw new residents to enrich Medical Association, Annette B. Ehler, the diverse cultural heritage of the area. Oklahoma Hall of Fame honoree for Attractions Hometown friendly, Hennessey loves history, and many other state notables. Turkey Creek Golf Course, Prairie Quilt a party and gets together annually in There is much to do for our out-of- Shop, Wine & Chocolate Festival, Pat January for the FOL Chili Cook-off, in town visitors. Hennessey is home to Hennessey Celebration, Friends of the August, for Pat Hennessey Days, and one of the best public golf courses in Library Pumpkin Patch, Mistletoe Magic, then enjoys a full September with the Northwest Oklahoma - Turkey Creek Sam & Burla Snyder History Center town-wide garage sale, the Friends of Golf Course--and the state’s largest quilt the Library Book Sale, and the Friend’s shop-- Prairie Quilt. Shop our gift shops Historical Significance Bar Car Show. The entire month of and then enjoy some of our wonderful Hennessey is named after Pat Hennessey, October, the Friends of the Library down-home cooking in one of the many an Irish freighter who was killed at the Great Pumpkin Patch is home to the eating establishments on Main. Take present townsite in April, 1874. Hennessey is located along the historic most sincere pumpkins in Oklahoma and some time to learn the history of our Chisholm Trail, and is named after Pat welcomes families and school groups for area at the Snyder Center, and visit the Photo Opportunities Hennessey, a wagon freighter massacred special activities. Also in October is the inland lighthouse in the Pat Hennessey Pat Hennessey Memorial Park, Bullfoot Park, in the Buffalo War of 1874. His death popular Wine & Chocolate Festival Memorial Garden, or step out on the The Historic Ranch Room @ the Vernost was one of the pivotal events in the featuring the fine wines of Oklahoma old Chisholm Trail in Bullfoot Park. Wine Co., Historic Downtown, Pat Hennessey closing of the American West, and his and the sweetest chocolates in the Stop by the library and experience Memorial Park, Bullfoot Park grave and memorial garden are located region. In December, Mistletoe Magic our one-room school house exhibit and in Pat Hennessey Memorial Park. His brings bright lights and a parade to centennial photos. You can enjoy a Wi-Fi story is told at the Sam and Burla Snyder downtown shopping. lunch in the library, at The Brick. Memorial History Center in the public Hennessey is the home of Clarence Come see us! For a day or a library. Rooted in the soil, this town’s Karcher, the father of the reflection lifetime, come home to Hennessey.
KINGFISHER (Kingfisher County)
known author and poet Don Blanding; a spectacular fireworks extravaganza W. C. Coleman, founder of the Coleman set to music. “Kingfisher Winter Nights”, Attractions Lantern Company; T. G. & Y. chain store located in Kingfisher Park, begins Chisholm Trail Museum, A.J. Seay Mansion, founder R. A. Young; author Mary Agnes November 25th and is open through Kingfisher Golf Course Thompson whose book “Loving You” December 25th. Not only will there provided the screenplay for Elvis Presley’s be lights in the park, but activities such Historical Significance second movie; and Joe Redington, father as train rides, ice skating, a carousel and Home to Gov. A.J. Seay Oklahoma’s of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, in Alaska, entertainment...a fun family outing. second territorial governor, Located on the historic Chisholm Trail as well as others... some famous and With plenty of restaurants and unique some infamous! A “must see” is the shops to visit, you won’t have a dull Photo Opportunities Seay Mansion across the street from moment. Come to KINGFISHER! Kingfisher Park and Chisholm the museum. It was built in 1892 by You’ll have a blast! Trail Museum. Gov. A.J. Seay, Oklahoma’s second territorial governor. Kingfisher’s Chisholm Trail Museum is A visit to the outstanding Kingfisher one of the best! Named after the famous County Veterans Memorial located in the trader Jesse Chisholm, it is the only Kingfisher Cemetery is a worthwhile and museum built directly on the Trail. memorable experience. Kingfisher Park A Pioneer Village of five original 1889 on Highway 33 houses the Vernie Snow historic structures including the Dalton Aquatic Center and you might also like cabin, home of Adaline Dalton, mother to play a round of golf at the adjoining of the notorious Dalton gang, is located 18-hole golf course, stroll across the 105 on the museum grounds. The museum year old swinging bridge... or take in a takes great pride in hosting exhibits movie at the three- screen 89’er Theatre which draw crowds from not only downtown. Kingfisher takes great pride Oklahoma but surrounding states as in our July Fourth parade, park festivities, well. Kingfisher is the birthplace of Sam concert and fireworks display, as well as Walton, as well as other noteworthy sons our downtown Christmas Parade held and daughters such as internationally each December which concludes with
OKARCHE (Kingfisher County)
Okarche is located on the Kingfisher famous rolls can be found at the Tower County line. Okarche is a great place to Café & Cinnamon Roll Bakery. During your visit and dine, enjoy the County Line Prime visit to Okarche, visit The Popcorn Station or Eischen’s Antique Bar. It is home to & Gifts shop and the Okarche Florist shop. the famous Okarche cinnamon rolls. The Attractions Historical Significance Eischen’s Antique Bar Okarche is located on land that, before 1830, was within the historic area of the Wichita people. The location was in territory assigned to the Creek and Seminole Photo Opportunities people when removal of tribes from the southeastern United States began in 1830. Eischen’s bar, Holy Trinity After the Civil War, parts of Indian Territory were designated for resettlement of Catholic Church site Plains Indians. From 1867 to 1884, cattle were driven through the area on the Chisholm Trail from Texas to railheads in Kansas. 22 | 2018 RedCarpetCountry.com CHISHOLM TRAIL (Kingfisher County, Garfield County, & Grant County )
The 1,200-mile historic Chisholm though the drives had diminished by The cultivated farmlands, fencing Trail is credited with saving Texas 1881. The four-month journey pushed and the extension of the railroads from economic ruin and infusing cattle quickly from Texas into Indian sealed the fate of the Chisholm Trail, new opportunity and wealth into the Territory, where the pace was slowed though it continues to live on in the entire country following the Civil War. to fatten the cattle, before pushing on many cowboy tales and songs that During the war, Texas ranches were to Kansas railheads. have endured. unmanaged, leaving the southern Known by a variety of labels In 2017, the 150th Anniversary prairies teeming with cattle. Too many including the Kansas Cattle Trail, of this epic event was celebrated. cattle depressed prices, while in the Abilene Cattle Trail, McCoy Trail, Black Explore Oklahoma’s Chisholm Trail northeast markets were in great need Beaver Trail, and Chisholm’s Wagon to see land scarred by millions of of beef. Cattle worth $3 Road, the Chisholm Trail takes its name longhorns in the largest man-made a head in Texas would from mixed-blood Cherokee trader, migration in history. Find out more bring up to $40 to Jesse Chisholm. Chisholm died in 1868 at ChisholmTrail.org ! $60 in Chicago and without knowing of the great cattle New York. The trail that would come to bear his name. problem was that no Despite the name, in many ways railroads yet reached the Chisholm Trail was launched by the Texas Plains. The Joseph McCoy in 1867. He built solution was the Great stockyards on the Kansas-Pacific American Cattle Trails. railroad in Abilene, Kansas and sent Running from south Texas north men south to encourage the Texas to Abilene, Kansas, the Chisholm Trail cattlemen to bring their herds to witnessed the movement of millions Abilene and east to lure cattle buyers of longhorns from 1867 through 1887 with the promise of large herds.
GEARY (Blaine County)
Jesse Chisholm’s grave is a historical interpreter, and peacemaker, was laid to Oklahoma landmark found 5 miles rest near his campsite where he died in Attractions northeast of the quaint town of Geary. 1868 near Left Hand Spring. His grave is Jesse Chisholm gravesite, Geary is a quiet town located 7 miles marked with a simple headstone. At the the Gillespie Building, Base Vines north of I-40. Upon approaching Geary roadside, a granite marker can be found & Cattle Winery, Canadian River you will be privileged to a beautiful giving the history of this amazing man Historical Society Museum view of rolling hills and farm land. Many and the huge impact he had on the people are seen snapping pictures and route that was later famously known Historical Significance gazing upon the magnificent sun rising as “The Chisholm Trail.” The grave site Geary was once part of the over the hills or the sunset as they are is located on the original Indian Cheyenne-Arapaho reservation traveling from I-40 to Geary. Historic Allotment given to Chief Left Hand of and was opened in April, 1892 for Route 66 also travels through Geary. the Arapahoes. They were good friends settlement by non-Indians. The Canadian River Bridge, the longest and it is at this campsite that Jesse Bridge on scenic Route 66 can be found Chisholm died of suspected poisoning Photo Opportunities 7 miles southwest of Geary. Jesse after eating bear meat cooked in a The Canadian River Bridge Chisholm, a trader, trailblazer, guide, copper pot.
OKEENE (Blaine County)
Upon approach to Okeene, it makes restored, our Welcome Center is stocked no difference from which direction you with Made in Oklahoma items including come, the spires of St. Anthony’s shine Oklahoma specialty foods, jewelry, in the distance. This beautiful Catholic souvenirs, arts and crafts from over North a couple blocks of the church has been a part of Okeene’s 70 vendors from across the state! intersection is Okeene’s Campus skyline since1922. Recently undergoing South of the intersection, browse Corner where daily specials always extensive renovations which include a Roadrunner Antiques; vintage signs and include dessert. new roof, refurbished stained glass many one-of-a-kind vintage treasures. West of town try broasted chicken, windows and the two crosses that adorn East of the intersection, choose your sub sandwiches, salads and desserts. the spires received new gold foil. favorite flavors from the list of specialty No matter where you are heading, At the intersection of Hwy’s 8 & burgers or Hunt’s Brothers Pizza at don’t pass through without slowing 51 you arrive at “The Corner.” This is the Burger Station. Across the street, steaks, down to enjoy a little of Okeene’s corner of where you’ve been and where pizza, salad bar and char-broiled burgers quaint, home-town hospitality! you’re headed in NW Oklahoma! Newly are available at Mimi’s 51 Café.
Attractions Historical Significance Photo Opportunities Okeene Rattlesnake Hunt, Okeene T. H. Mansfield coined the town’s name Downtown Murals, St. Anthony’s Municipal Golf Course from the last syllables of Cherokee and Catholic Church Cheyenne. Originally the name was pronounced as a three-syllable word, O-Kee-Ne.
2018 RedCarpetCountry.com | 23 CANTON (Blaine County)
Canton Lake is a beautiful centerpiece of tourism and recreation for the entire Red Carpet region. 45 miles of shoreline Attractions and 7,910 acres of cool, clear water are Canton Lake, Walleye Rodeo home to numerous boat ramps, 5 multi-use areas and a family-friendly Historical Significance sandy swimming beach. The lake is a Canton derived its name from fisherman’s paradise – walleye, crappie, Cantonment, a nearby military post white bass, channel catfish and large-mouth that was established in 1879. bass make their home in these waters. Photo Opportunities Feeling Lucky? There’s a casino up the Historic Downtown road. Just south of the casino, the friendly town of Canton provides great shopping and a well-kept walking trail where events are often held. You can find all you need – clean fuel stops, motel service, RV hookups, and bait and tackle shops. Great eating too!
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The Gateway to Roman Nose State 1901. The Noble House Bed & Breakfast Park, Watonga is 70 miles northwest is listed on the National Registry of of Oklahoma City, an easy destination Historical Buildings and is one of the for a day trip or a weekend stay. Visitors lodging options in the area. Guesthouse offers a contemporary, to Watonga can browse through antique Roman Nose State Park is one of intimate B&B experience and is also shops and specialty gift stores and sam- Oklahoma’s original state parks built by available as an event venue, hosting ple wine produced from locally-grown the Civilian Conservation Corps in the wood-fired pizza dinners and Oklahoma grapes at Whirlwind Winery located early 1930’s. A drive or walk through the House Concerts. Additional lodging and on Main Street. Formerly the home of Park will transport the visitor to another dining can be found in town. Watonga the Watonga Cheese Factory, Watonga time, when the area was the winter and Roman Nose State Park host several still hosts the annual family-friendly camp grounds of the Cheyenne and other seasonal events, including biannual Cheese Festival on the second weekend Arapaho tribes. The Park offers many Roman Nose Hills Trail Rides and an of October and several merchants in activities for all ages, including camp- annual Trout Derby in spring. Check town sell Watonga Cheese. The county ing and RV hookups, hiking, mountain out the Blaine County OK Community seat of Blaine County, Watonga has biking, and horse trails with beautiful Facebook page for dates and times of attractions for history buffs and outdoor canyon views, a challenging 18-hole golf activities and events in the area and enthusiasts. The T.B. Ferguson Home course, swimming, fishing, and flowing come visit any time of year, for a day & Museum is available for guided cold spring waters. The Park Lodge has or a weekend! More information is also tours. Just south of the museum is the 22 rooms and a restaurant. Just outside available at RedCarpetCountry.com. Ferguson Presbyterian Chapel, built in of the Park, the Chaparral Retreat and
Attractions Historical Significance Photo Opportunities T.B Ferguson Home, Watonga Cheese The town was named for Arapaho Roman Nose State Park, Ferguson Festival, Watonga Golf Course, Noble Chief Wa-ton-gha, whose name Chapel, Post Office Mural House Bed & Breakfast, Whirlwind Winery meant Black Coyote. Tasting Room, Roman Nose State Park & Golf Course
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26 | 2018 RedCarpetCountry.com Welcome to our Community Watonga City Clerk Watonga Park Department Watonga EMS Watonga Police Department Watonga Fire Department Watonga Regional Airport Watonga Light & Water Watonga Street Department
The Historic Chapel * Weddings * Receptions * Funerals
469-358-0809
T. B. Ferguson Home Museum
521 N. Weigle • P.O. Box165 Watonga, OK 73772 • 580-623-5069 [email protected]
Open: Mon. & Thur. 11-4, Fri. 12:30-5:30, Sat 10:30-3:30 Closed State Holidays
2018 RedCarpetCountry.com | 27 ENID (Garfield County)
The arts and history blend together was known up and down the Chisholm the Vietnam Wall in Washington, in Enid, Red Carpet Country’s largest city Trail as a popular stop to water cattle. D.C. is on permanent display at and home to one of only seven Certified The 150th anniversary of the Chisholm Woodring Regional Airport. Cultural Districts in Oklahoma. Trail was celebrated in 2017. When you Enid offers over 1,200 lodging Attractions Enid’s walkable Arts and Entertainment see painted hoof prints on Enid’s city rooms, over 100 restaurants including Leonardo’s Children’s Museum & District includes the historic downtown streets, you are directly on the Chisholm more than 50 uniquely-Enid eateries, Adventure Quest, Cherokee Strip square, two square blocks full of boutique Trail. Enid was also the site of one of four and a vast assortment of shopping from Regional Heritage Center & Humphrey and antique shopping, some of Enid’s land offices for the Great Land Run on national retail stores to quaint, locally Heritage Village, Central National Bank finest and most varied cuisine and a Sept. 16, 1893, when 100,000 land-hungry owned shops. Enid has something any Center, Gaslight Theatre, Enid Symphony First Friday celebration April through settlers charged into the Cherokee Outlet visitor will enjoy, and VisitEnid.org has Orchestra, David Allen Memorial November filled with live music, creative to claim their land and start their new current information to help you plan Ballpark, Meadowlake Park & Golf Course, artists and themed activities. The Enid lives. A visit to the Cherokee Strip your visit. Simpson’s, Old Time Museum, Pheasant Symphony Orchestra, Oklahoma’s Regional Heritage Center reveals a Run Golf Course longest-running symphony since 1905, Smithsonian-quality facility that tells Historial Significance Photo Opportunities lives here, as does the Gaslight Theatre, the settlers’ story in a way that puts you Enid is located on the historic Downtown Murals and Statutes, one of the state’s most active community right in the saddle astride your galloping Chisholm Trail. Enid was part of the Railroad Museum of Oklahoma, theatres and Oklahoma’s only free horse toward the Land Run office. You’ll Cherokee Outlet and was the site of Government Springs Park, Vietnam Shakespeare in the Park. You’ll find the also step inside the only remaining one of the Land Offices for the Great War Memorial, Simpson’s Old Central National Bank Center here, original Land Run office from any of Land Run on September 16, 1893. Time Museum which opened in 2013 and is already Oklahoma’s seven land runs. established as the region’s top Not only will you find a waterfall at entertainment venue having hosted Government Springs Park, you’ll also find concerts by music superstars including Dillingham Garden, beautiful any time Reba, Willie Nelson, Alabama, Kansas, of the year and a prime landing spot for Casting Crowns and Mannheim monarch butterflies in late September Steamroller. Right across the street is during their annual migration south to David Allen Memorial Ballpark, home to Mexico. For family fun, Leonardo’s the NJCAA Division II World Series and Children’s Museum is newly renovated over 270 events per year. The district and includes a two-story indoor Power also holds art galleries and several public Tower as well as the three-story sculptures, many designed by native son outdoor playground, Adventure Quest, and Oklahoma Hall of Famer H Holden. and propel a pump car up and down Do you like movies? You could say Enid the tracks at the Railroad Museum of is located where “Lonesome Dove” meets Oklahoma, home to one of the largest “Far and Away,” as those productions collections of railroad material in represent two of the most significant the country. Enid is also home to historic events in the Old West. What we Oklahoma’s official Vietnam War know today as Government Springs Park Memorial. An 80-percent replica of
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Wakita is home to the Twister Museum. provides a first-hand feel for the This museum is a must-see. In fact, it’s adventure. Even if it isn’t “on the way” one of the more unusual attractions in the Twister The Movie Museum is worth Oklahoma. The Twister The Movie Museum the look! is located in the heart of this small Join us in May for the Twister The farming community. The community Movie Museum Celebration and The was transformed into a movie set, and Old Settlers Celebration is in September. many of the movie scenes were shot in Come see us! Red Carpet Country Wakita. A visit to the Twister Museum Photo Contest Your photograph could be Attractions Historical Significance featured in next year’s guide. The Twister The Movie Museum & Historian George Shirk asserted that the Enter our Photo Contest @ Celebration, The Old Settler Celebration town name is a Cherokee word meaning RedCarpetCountry.com Photo Opportunities water collected in a small depression, Photo by Dakstone Fleming Twister Museum and downtown. such as a buffalo wallow. MEDFORD (Grant County)
Medford celebrated the grand opening of The 1893 Land Run Museum & Community Center. The new center will be multi-functional, providing for Historical Significance Attractions youth and adult education by preserving Located on the historic Chisholm Trail. 1893 Land Run Museum and artfully displaying, in a modern It is generally believed that Medford (opened in 2017), Medford Golf museum type setting. Medford is was named for Medford, Massachusetts, Course, Swimming Pool, Airport, located in north-central Oklahoma, the hometown of a railroad official. Library, Medford Civic Center north of Enid and west of Ponca City. The area was opened to non-Indian events, Farmers’ Market Early trails in the county included settlers during the Cherokee Outlet Black Dog and the Chisholm Trail. land opening on September 16, 1893. Photo Opportunities Historic Downtown, 1893 Land Run Homesteaders Monument and tank display on Courthouse Lawn REDCARPETCOUNTRY.COM REDCARPETCOUNTRY.COM REDCARPETCOUNTRY.COM REDCARPETCOUNTRY.COM REDCARPETCOUNTRY.COM REDCARPETCOUNTRY.COM
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LEVEL 3 PARTNER FEATURED BUSINESS MEMBERS RESTAURANTS MEMBERS Alva Chamber of Commerce 81 Grill & Bar 104 N Main St Visit Enid Fairfield Inn & Suites Alva Northwest Technology Center Hennessey, OK 201 W Owen K Garriott Rd 3405 N 14th St, Ponca City, OK 74601 Beaver Dunes / Town of Beaver (405) 853-6844 Enid, OK 73701 (580) 765-3000 Baird’s Lakeside Café (580) 233-3643 Black Mesa Bed & Breakfast Farmers Exchange Bank 245971 E 620 Rd Woodward Convention 419 S Grand, Buffalo Chamber of Commerce Canton, OK 73724 & Visitors Bureau Cherokee, OK 73728 (580) 886-3355 3401 Centennial, Woodward, OK 73801 (580) 596-3371 Central National Back Center (580) 256-9990 Casa Teja Mexican Restaurant High Plains Technology Center Chaparral Retreat Bed & Breakfast 112 S Main St Woodward County 3921 34th St Hennessey, OK Fairgrounds & Event Center Woodward, OK 73801 Cherokee Main Street (405) 853-6799 105A Temple Houston (580) 571-6108 Woodward, OK 73801 Cimarron Heritage Center Museum Cherokee Station Steak House Hitching Post Bed & (580) 334-6023 1710 S Grand Ave Breakfast-Lodging & Ranch City of Medford Cherokee, OK HCR 1, Box 4 Ellis County Extension / Lynda Latta (580) 596-2882 LEVEL 2 Kenton, OK 73946 (580) 261-7413 Fairview Chamber of Commerce Eat It Up! BUSINESS 114 S Main St MEMBERS Northwestern Electric Cooperative Fairview Northwest Technology Center Hennessey, OK 2925 Williams Ave (405) 853-2313 City of Hooker Woodward, OK 73801 Gaslight Theatre 111 S Broadway, Hooker, OK 73945 (580) 256-7425 Family Café (580) 652-2885 Greater Enid Chamber of Commerce 108 N Main St Okeene Chamber of Commerce Hennessey, OK Garfield Furniture 116 W E St Guymon Chamber of Commerce (405) 853-2103 205 S Grand Ave, Enid, OK 73701 Okeene, OK 73763 Hennessey United (580) 237-5032 (580) 822-3005 Happy Times Donuts & Subs 1587 Cecil Kaw Lake Association Nightmare in the Country Perry Chamber of Commerce Waynoka, OK 383680 S County Rd 195 327 N 7th Kingfisher Chamber of Commerce (580) 541-4169 Woodward, OK 73801 Perry, OK 73077 (580) 254-3944 (580) 336-4684 Kiwanis Club of Watonga Hometown Café 589 Main Plains Indians & Pioneers Museum Laverne Area Chamber of Commerce Waynoka, OK LEVEL 1 2009 Williams Ave (580) 824-6221 BUSINESS Woodward, OK 73801 Leonardo’s Children’s Museum (580) 256-6136 McGill’s Chuckwagon MEMBERS Major County Historical Society 1511 Missouri Ponca City Chamber of Commerce Waynoka, OK McCormick Armstrong Artist Incubation, Inc. 420 E Grand Ave (918) 625-1042 421 N Main , Guymon, OK 73942 Ponca City, OK 74601 Merle’s (580) 338-4278 (580) 765-4400 Napoli’s Italian Restaurant Napoli’s Italian Restaurant 225 S Grand Ave BancCentral State Exchange Bank Enid, OK 604 Flynn St, Alva, OK 73717 1280 Main St Okeene Historic Preservation Group (580) 237-8464 (580) 327-1122 Lamont, OK 74643 (580) 388-4345 Perry Tourism Development Rooster’s Food & Fun Bank of Vici 7421 S Hwy 81 121 W Broadway, Vici, OK 73859 Watonga Chamber of Commerce Pioneer Woman Statute & Museum Hennessey, OK (580) 995-4231 P.O. Box 537 (405) 853-6686 Shattuck Chamber of Commerce Becky Ladd CPA, PC Watonga, OK 73772 (580) 623-5452 The Overlook 114 S Main St, Fargo, OK 73840 Sod House Friends Association Canton Lake-South of Dam (580) 698-2516 Watonga Motel / Sod House Museum Canton, OK Canton Lake Walleye Rodeo, Inc. Noble House Bed & Breakfast (580) 886-2407 P. O. Box 74, Canton, OK 73724 307 S Wikoff T.B. Ferguson Home (580) 886-2231 Watonga, OK 73772 (580) 623-8062 The Runnymede Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Woodward Industrial Foundation Town of Buffalo 507 S 4th St, Enid, OK 73701 P.O. Box 1406 Wakita Lions Club (580) 237-1907 Woodward, OK 73801 (580) 254-5616 Eskimo Joe’s Clothes Waynoka Chamber of Commerce
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REDCARPETCOUNTRY.COM REDCARPETCOUNTRY.COM 2018 RedCarpetCountry.com | 31 RED CARPET Country JANUARY Enid Red Brick Road Food Truck Woodward K101 Farm Expo, 580-233-3643 & Art Festival, Creative Arts Woodward County Event Enid Shakespeare in the Park Aline Good Ol’ Binder Twine: Enid, 580-402-6732 Center, 580-256-4101 Government Springs Park The Rest of the Story, Hooker Annual Easter Egg Hunt - MAY 580-234-2307 Sod House Museum Hooker Park - 580-652-2333 Guymon Jim Hitch Memorial 580-463-2441 Kenton Kenton Easter Pageant Canton Annual Canton Lake Golf Tournament Enid Championship Bull Riding (580) 261-7443 Walleye Rodeo Sunset Hills Golf Course Battle on the Great Plains Ponca City Bison Bison Film Festival 580-886-2216 580-338-7404 CNB Center, 855-TIX-ENID Ponca City, 580-765-4400 Cherokee Selenite Cruise Car Show Kaw City Kaw Fest, Kaw Lake Enid KNID Agrifest, Chisholm Ponca City Two on Tap – Song & Tap 580-596-6111, 580-765-4400 Trail Expo Center Dance Sensation, cherokeemainstreet.org Kingfisher Kingfisher Open Rodeo 580-237-1390 Poncan Theatre Enid Tri-State Music Festival Kingfisher County Enid Enid Symphony Soiree – 580-765-0943 Throughout Enid Fairgrounds, 405-375-4445 A Night in New Orleans Watonga Spring Trout Derby 580-237-4964 Kingfisher McNair Invitational Team Enid Symphony Center Roman Nose Enid Jazz Stroll Roping Event 580-237-9646 580-623-5453 Downtown Enid Kingfisher County Enid Women in Music APRIL 580-234-1052 Fairgrounds, 405-375-4445 Gaslight Theatre Enid Next to Normal Ponca City Pioneer Family Fun Days 580-234-2307 Beaver World Cow Chip Throwing Gaslight Theatre 580-765-6108 Hennessey Annual Hometown Championships & Craft 580-234-2307 Ponca City Draggin’ Grand Chili Cook-Off Show, Beaver County Enid NJCAA Division II 580-765-4400 High School Cafeteria Fairgrounds, 580-625-3331 Regional Baseball Ponca City Ponca City Herb Festival 405-853-2073 Boise City Annual Dust Bowl Tournament, David Allen 580-765-4400 Jet Bald Eagle Watch Celebration “Women of Memorial Ballpark Ponca City 101 Wild West PRCA Salt Plains Wildlife Refuge the Dust Bowl”, Cimarron 580-234-2407 Rodeo & Parade 580-626-4794 Heritage Center, Enid NJCAA Division II World 580-765-4400 Kaw Lake Ultimate Eagle Watch (580) 544-3479 Series – David Allen Ponca City Junteenth Celebration Kaw Lake, 580-765-4400 Cherokee Bird and Crystal Festival, Memorial Ballpark 580-765-4400 Ponca City “Mysteries of the Mind” Great Salt Plains Refuge & 580-234-2407 Woodward Classic Bowl & Parade Paul Draper, Poncan Theatre, Park, 580-596-6111, www. Garber Spring Production, The Woodward High School 580-765-0943 cherokeemainstreet.org Garber Community Theater 580-256-4101 Woodward Fists of Fury 10 Cage Fights, Enid Corvette Expo (580) 548-4861 Woodward Elks Rodeo Woodward County Event Chisholm Trail Expo Guymon Pioneer Days PRCA Crystal Beach Arena Center, 580-256-9990 Center, 580-307-7528 Rodeo, Mercantile, 580-256-9990 FEBRUARY Enid Get Happy: A Judy Garland carnival, 5K, parade Woodward OKHSARA Rodeo Finals Celebration, Enid Symphony guymonokchamber.com Crystal Beach Arena Alva Champagne & Chocolate Center, 580-237-9646 580-338-3376 580-256-9990 Cherokee Strip Museum Enid Enid Blues Festival Guymon Five State Run Woodward Monster Trucks 580-327-2030 Government Springs Park www.fivestaterun.com Crystal Beach Arena Buffalo The OK & T Angus Sale 580-977-9267 580-461-7792 580-256-9990 Harper Co. Fairgrounds Enid Kites Over Enid Hennessey Steer Tripping Mexican Woodward Miss Rodeo Oklahoma (580) 735-2720 Autry Technology Center Style, Aguila Arena Crystal Beach Arena Enid Beauty and the Beast 580-233-3643 405-853-1199 580-256-9990 (Gaslight Teens) & Almost Enid Smokin’ Red Dirt BBQ Kingfisher Cross Family steer Maine, Gaslight Theatre CNB Center, 580-548-8194 wrestling event JULY 580-234-2307 Enid Tour de Trykes Criterium Kingfisher County Buffalo Celebration in the Park Enid Lee Chin, Violinist Downtown Enid Fairgrounds, 405-375-4445 (580) 735-2720 Enid Symphony Center 580-977-6989 Kingfisher Mark Vincent Roping Boise City 75th Anniversary of 580-237-9646 Guymon Doc Gardner Memorial Kingfisher County Bombing of Boise City, Enid Trappings of the Cherokee Rodeo, Hitch Pioneer Arena Fairgrounds, 405-375-4445 Cimarron Heritage Center, Strip Art Show, Cherokee 580-349-2611 Kingfisher Living History Days (580) 544-3479 Strip Regional Heritage Cntr Hennessey Hennessey Roundup Club Chisholm Trail Museum Cherokee 4th of July Celebration 580-237-1907 Spring Rodeo & Dance 405-375-5176 580-596-6111 Enid Winter Chautauqua: Emily Hennessey Rodeo Arena Ponca City Cowboy Ball, Ponca City Enid Leonardo’s Hometown Dickinson, NWOSU-Enid, 405-853-5574 580-765-4400 Celebration, Leonardo’s 580-551-9792 Hooker Spring Fling, 3rd Saturday Ponca City Camp McFadden Outdoor Children’s Museum Guymon OPSU Spring Jackpots Downtown Hooker Expo, Ponca City 580-233-2787 Rodeo Schools, 580-349-2611 580-652-2885 580-765-4400 Enid Mamma Mia, Guymon The Shadow Box Kenton Kenton Easter Pageant, Wakita Twister Museum Celebration Gaslight Theatre, Guymon Community Theater Kenton, OK, 580-261-7443 Twister Museum 580-234-2307 580-338-0019 Kingfisher Living History Days & 580-594-2312 Fairview Wrangler Rodeo Ponca City “Baby Boomers” Comedy Chuckwagon Festival, Watonga Main Street/Lions Club Major County Fairgrounds Show, Poncan Theatre Chisholm Trail Museum- Golf Tournament 580-227-2527 580-765-0943 Pioneer Village, Roman Nose Golf Course Freedom Selman Bat Watch Ponca City “Duo Baldo” Violin-Piano 405-375-5176 580-623-2200 Alabaster Caverns State Musical/Comedy Team Okeene Okeene Rattlesnake Hunt Waynoka Doin’ the Dunes Park, 405-990-4977 Poncan Theatre, 580-822-3101 580-824-3681 Guymon Pro Bull Riders 580-765-0943 Perry SpringFest & Hops Woodward Classic Car Show (PBR) Invitational Ponca City Matt Stansberry & The Car/Motorcycle Show Woodward County Event Hitch Pioneer Arena Romance, Poncan Theatre, Historic Downtown Square Center, 580-256-9990 580-338-3376 580-765-0943 perrychamber.com Woodward Twister Alley Film Festival Hooker 4th Hotdog Feed MARCH 580-336-4684 Woodward Conference Celebration, City Park Ponca City The Four Freshmen – Center, 580-256-9990 580-652-2333 Aline Laverne Vintage Quilt Exhibit Electric Vocal/Musical JUNE Biggest 4th of July Sod House Museum Quartet, Poncan Theatre, Celebration in NW OK 580-463-2441 580-765-0973 Alva Act 1 Theatre Productions Downtown Laverne Alva Chocolate Fantasy Ponca City “The Ball Brothers”, Alva Community Theatre, 580-921-3612 Public Library, 580-327-1833 Poncan Theatre, Inc. – 580-327-1574 Ponca City “Oliver”, Poncan Theatre Enid Coin, Currency & Token 580-765-0943 Alva “Wings over the Prairie” 580-765-0973 Show, Garfield County Ponca City “Disney’s The Little Air Race Classic, Alva Ponca City Pioneer Family Fun Days Pavilion, 580-233-2500 Mermaid Jr.”, Poncan Regional Airport pioneerwomanmuseum.com Enid Mariangela Vacatello, Pianist Theatre, 580-765-0943 580-327-1565 580-765-6108 Enid Symphony Center Watonga Roman Nose Hills Trail Boise City Santa Fe Trail Daze, Shattuck Firemen’s 4th of July 580-237-9646 Ride, RomanNoseHills (580) 544-3479 Celebration, Shattuck Park Enid Enid Arts Council Gala TrailRide.com, Enid Summer Chautauqua 580-938-2818 Independence Tower (580) 614-1455 Humphrey Heritage Village Waynoka Hometown Independence Ballroom, 580-234-4840 Waynoka Waynoka Rattlesnake Hunt 580-237-1907 Day, Downtown Waynoka 405-654-9948 Enid Van Buren Cruisers 580-824-4741 32 | 2018 RedCarpetCountry.com Van Buren Street EVENTS Woodward Home of the Brave Ponca City Standing Bear Pow Wow Ponca City Oktoberfest Cherokee Christmas Housing Tour Crystal Beach Arena 580-765-4400 580-765-4400 580-596-6111 580-256-9990 Ponca City Ponca City Open Disc Golf Ponca City Ponca City Motocross Enid Christmas in the Village
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Ringwood Watermelon Festival Ponca City Written in Stone Cemetery Tour Heritage Center Cherokee Great Salt Plains Stampede & Parade, Downtown 580-765-4400 580-237-1907 Rodeo, 580-596-6111, Ringwood, 580-883-5550 Ponca City Camp McFadden Outdoor Expo Enid Drive-Thru Living Nativity cherokeemainstreet.org Shattuck Ellis County Free Fair, 580-765-4400 Enid First Church of the Buffalo The Old Settlers Picnic, Ellis County Fairgrounds, Shattuck Red Barn Expo Craft, Nazarene, 580-234-4781 Doby Springs, 580-938-2818 Boutique & Vendor Show Fairview Holly-Dazzle Fireworks (580) 735-2720 Shattuck Windmiller Days, Windmill Ellis County Fairgrounds, and Lighted Parade Enid FLY Film Festival, Museum & Park, 580-938-2818 Downtown, 580-227-2527 Downtown, 580-938-2818 Watonga Cheese Festival Guymon Guymon Community FLYfilmfestival.org Wakita Old Settlers Celebration Downtown, 580-623-5452 Theatre Show Guymon Azuma African Celebration 580-594-2312 Watonga Roman Nose Trail Ride 580-338-0019 Main Street Guymon Watonga Roman Nose Hills Roman Nose Stables Guymon Christmas Parade mainstreetguymon.com Trail Ride, RomanNose 580-830-0235 Cultural Arts District 580-338-6246 HillsTrailRide.com, Waynoka Fall Fest 580-338-4278 Hennessey Pat Hennessey (580) 614-1455 Downtown, 580-824-4741 Hennessey Mistletoe Magic Day Celebration Waynoka SandFest Woodward Nightmare in the Country Downtown, 405-853-1277 Main Street, 405-853-1613 Little Sahara State Park nightmareinthecountry.com Hooker Christmas Parade or 580-402-6732 580-824-1471 580-254-3944 Downtown Hooker Ponca City Party at the Palace Woodward OCTOBER K101 Fall-A-Days 580-652-2333 Ponca City, 580-765-4400 Woodward County Event Center Hooker Christmas Parade Ponca City Ponca City Arts Festival Alva Halloween Spooktacular 580-256-4101 Downtown - 580-652-2333 580-765-4400 Downtown Square Woodward Twisted Horror Picture Show Kingfisher Santas of the World Waynoka Cimarron River Stampede 580-327-1647 Woodward Arts Theatre Seay Mansion Rodeo, Waynoka Rodeo Alva OctoberFest 580-256-9990 405-375-5176 Grounds, 580-824-4741 Downtown Square Woodward Kenny Farms – 405-714-3453 Kingfisher WinterFest Craft Show Woodward Red Carpet Country 580-327-1647 NOVEMBER Kingfisher Fairgrounds Tourism Conference, Alva NWOSU Homecoming 405-375-4445 Woodward Convention Celebration, (580) 327-8480 Alva ACT 1 Theatre Productions Kingfisher Annual Christmas Parade Center, 580-327-4918 Alva NWOSU Rodeo Alva Community Theatre, & Fireworks SEPTEMBER Woods County Fairgrounds Inc., 580-327-1574 Downtown, 405-375-4445 580-327-8688 Alva Holiday Stroll Ponca City Nativity Festival Alva RACE Big Cruise & Car Aline Fall Fair (580) 463-2612 Downtown - 580-327-2787 First Christian Church Show, Downtown Square Garber - Fall Production, Buffalo Crafter’s Christmas Mall 580-765-4400 580-327-1647 The Garber Community Harper County Fairgrounds Ponca City Lighted Christmas Parade Covington DaZe in a MaZe, Theater 580-735-2030 Downtown, 580-765-4400 www.dazeinamaze.com Cherokee October Stroll & Festival Covington DaZe in a MaZe, Ponca City Holiday Happenings Enid Cherokee Strip Celebration 580-596-6111, www.dazeinamaze.com 580-765-4400 Downtown Enid cherokeemainstreet.org Enid Mennonite Relief Sale Shattuck Annual Christmas Parade, 580-233-3643 Covington DaZe in a MaZe, Chisholm Trail Expo Children’s Shopping Mall Enid Lantern Tours www.dazeinamaze.com Center, 918-272-0749 & Sip ‘n Shop, Cherokee Strip Regional Enid Grit n’ Gravel 100 Dirt Enid Enid Lights up the Plains 580-938-2818 Heritage Center Ride, Downtown Enid, Downtown, 580-234-1052 Watonga Santa’s Village 580-237-1907 580-977-6989 Fairview World’s Oldest Free Christmas Bazaar Enid Fling at the Springs Enid Enid Antique Power, Gas Fly-In Air Show Fairgrounds , 580-623-5195 Music Festival Engine & Tractor Show Fairview Municipal Airport Watonga Christmas Open House Government Springs Park Garfield County Fairgrounds 580-227-2527 T.B. Ferguson Home Museum 580-402-6732 580-237-1756 Kingfisher Annual Craft & 580-623-5069 Fairview Gloss Mountain Cruiser’s Enid Sooner State Kennel Club Gift Show, MAC Center at Waynoka Lighted Christmas Parade Car Show and Cruise Dog Show Fairgrounds, 405-375-4445 Downtown, 580-824-4741 Downtown, 580-227-2527 Chisholm Trail Expo Center Kingfisher Kool Cars in Kingfisher Woodward Gingerbread Contest Fairview Threshing Bee and 580-237-0238 Kingfisher Fairgrounds Plains Indians & Two-Cylinder Show Enid Tombstone Tales 405-375-4445 Pioneers Museum Major County Historical Enid Cemetery Kingfisher Holiday Open House 580-256-6136 Society, 580-227-2265 580-233-3643 Chisholm Trail Museum Woodward Crystal Christmas Guymon Fiesta Day, 5th and Main Enid Nightmare Warehouse, & Seay Mansion Crystal Beach Park 580-338-3396 nightmarewarehouse.com 405-375-5176 580-256-6136 Hooker Hooker Car Show, Garber Waynoka Fall Production, The Black Friday ATV Poker MONTHLY EVENTS Saturday after Labor Day Garber Community Theater Run, Little Sahara State Downtown Hooker (580)548-4861 Park and City of Waynoka Alva First Friday Art Walk 580-652-2333 Guymon Harvest Fest 580-824-3681 First Friday of each month Kaw Lake Cherokee Strip Trail Ride Cultural Arts District Woodward Crystal Christmas Alva’s Arts & Shopping Kaw Lake, 580-765-4400 580-338-4278 Crystal Beach Park District, 580-327-2787 Kingfisher Sam & Peggy Trent Hennessey Pumkin Patch 580-256-6136 Enid Enid Fly-In Breakfast Memorial Roping, 4th Saturday, Apr thru Sept Hennessey Public Library DECEMBER Kingfisher County 405-853-2073 Woodring Regional Airport Fairgrounds, 405-375-4445 Hennessey Wine & Chocolate Festival Aline Christmas at the Sod House 580-234-5476 Lamont Rustic Roots Pumpkin Memorial Park Sod House Museum Enid First Friday Patch & More, 405-853-0643 580-463-2441 Downtown Enid www.rusticrootsevents.com Hooker Spooks & Goblins Parade Aline Vintage Quilt Exhibit 580-234-1052 Okarche Okarchefest Downtown - 580-652-2333 Sod House Museum Guymon Cultural Arts District okarchefest.com Kenton Okie-Tex Star Party, 580-463-2441 Second Saturday 580-824-3681 www.Okie-Tex.com Alva Festival of Trees 580-338-5838 Perry Annual Cherokee Strip Kingfisher Ranch Rodeo Cherokee Strip Museum Ponca City Fly-In Breakfast Celebration Kingfisher Fairgrounds 580-327-2030 Ponca City Regional Historic Downtown Square 405-375-4445 Alva Christmas Comes to Alva Airport, 580-765-4400 perrychamber.com Lamont Rustic Roots Pumpkin Downtown Square Watonga Oklahoma House Concert 580-336-4684 Patch & More, 580-327-1647 Chaparral Retreat & Perry CSRC Rodeo www.rusticrootsevents.com Boise City Christmas Celebration, Guesthouse, (940) 735-1065 Cherokee Strip Riding Club Okarche Deutchefest Cimarron Heritage Center, Arena, 580-307-7963 405-263-7215 (580) 554-3479 For the most up-to-date information: Ponca City Cherokee Strip Golf Classic Perry Rural Heritage Festival Buffalo Christmas Tree Lighting & RedCarpetCountry.com 580-765-4400 Cherokee Stip Musueum Santa Claus Day, Stone City Ponca City Cherokee Strip BBQ 580-336-2405 Park, 580-735-2030 Chili Cook-Off 580-765-4400 2018 RedCarpetCountry.com | 33 RED CARPET COUNTRY AREA MAP A B C D E 8 287 83 23 20 5 283 3 136 54 64 270 3 95 2 56 17 1 11 2 1 6 325 3 412 64 94 18 2 22 25 21 8 287 17 7 3 56 3 385 24 136 23 283 54 83 2 2 1 MUSEUMS 1 MAJOR FISHING LAKES 31 1 1893 Land Run Museum – Medford – I 1 1 Lake McMurty – J 3 2 A.D. Buck Museum of Science & History – Tonkawa I-J 1-2 2 Canton Lake – G 3 3 A.J. Seay Mansion – Kingfisher H 3-4 3 Lake Carl Etling – A 1 283 3 Chisholm Trail Museum – Kingfisher – H 3-4 4 Fort Supply Lake – F 2 60 4 Alva Municipal Airport Museum – Alva – G 1 5 Great Salt Plains Dam & Lake – H 1 7 4 Cherokee Strip Museum – Alva – G 1 6 Kaw Lake – J 1 3 4 NWOSU Museum of Natural History – Alva – G 1 7 Lake Vincent - E 3 5 Ames Astrobleme Museum – Ames – H 2 1 RECREATIONAL AREAS 5 Hajek Motorsports Museum – Ames – H 2 1 Beaver Dunes Park – D/E 1 6 Boswell Museum – Leedey – F 3 1 Beaver River Wildlife Management Area – D/E 1 7 Buffalo Museum – Buffalo – F 1 1 State Public Hunting Area – D/E 1 8 Canadian Rivers Historical Society Museum – Geary – H 4 2 Byron State Fish Hatchery – H 1 9 Cherokee Strip Museum & Rose Hill School – Perry – I 2 3 Crystal Beach Park & Water Park – F 2 9 Heritage Center & Ditch Witch Museum – Perry – I 2 4 Gage Artesian Beach – F 2 10 Humphrey Heritage Village – Enid – I 2 5 Leonardo’s Children’s Museum & Adventure Quest – Enid 4– I 2 10 Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center – Enid – I 2 6 Salt Plains Wildlife Refuge – Jet/Cherokee H1-2 10 Leona Mitchell Southern Heights Heritage Center – Enid – I 2 6 Selenite Crystal Dig – Jet/Cherokee – H 1-2 10 Midgley Museum – Enid – I 2 10 Railroad Museum of Oklahoma – Enid – I 2 7 Wentz Pool & Camp – J 1 11 Cimarron Heritage Center Museum – Boise City – A 1 7 Sun ‘n Fun Water Park – J 1 12 Conoco Museum – Ponca City – J 1-2 8 Sunset Lake, Park & Wildlife Refuge – C 2 12 Marland Mansion / E.W. Marland Estate – Ponca City – J 1 8 R/C Air Craft Field – C 2 12 Marland’s Grand Home – Ponca City – J 1 1 STATE PARKS 12 Pioneer Woman Statute & Museum – Ponca City – J 1 1 Alabaster Caverns State Park – G 2 12 Standing Bear Park, Museum & Education Center – Ponca City – J 1 2 Black Mesa State Park – A 1 13 Dewey County Jailhouse Museum – Taloga – G 3 3 Boiling Springs State Park – F 3 14 Dr. Renfrow-Miller Museum – Billings – I 2 4 Great Salt Plains State Park – H 1 14 Henry Bellmon Library & Museum – Billings – I 2 5 Little Sahara State Park – G 2 15 Fort Supply Historic Site – Fort Supply – F 2 6 Roman Nose State Park – H 3 15 Jet Museum – Jet – H 1-2 7 Gloss Mountains State Park – G 2 16 Freedom Museum – Freedom – G 1 1 THEATERS, ARTS & EVENTS CENTERS 17 Gateway to the Panhandle Museum – Gate – E 1 1 Briggs Auditorium – I 2 (Enid) 18 Jones & Plummer Trail Museum – Beaver – D/E 1 1 Central National Bank Center – I 2 (Enid) 19 Kanza Museum – Kaw City – J 1 1 Chisholm Trail Expo Center – I 2 (Enid) 20 Kenton Museum – Kenton – A 1 1 Creative Arts Enid – I 2 (Enid) 21 Laverne Community Museum – Laverne – E=F 1-2 1 Enid Symphony Center – I 2 (Enid) 22 Mc Carter Museum & Centennial Park – Tonkawa – I-J 1-2 1 Gaslight Theatre – I 2 (Enid) 22 Tonkawa Tribal Museum – Tonkawa I-J 1-2 2 Bryant Baker Gallery & Artist Studio – F 2 (Ponca City) 23 Newkirk Community Historical Museum & Heritage Center – Newkirk – J 1 2 Ponca Playhouse – J 1 (Ponca City) 24 No Man’s Land Museum – Goodwell – C 1-2 2 Poncan Theatre & Lobby Art – J 1 (Ponca City) 25 Pioneer Showcase, Dust Bowl & Genealogy Archives – Guymon – C 1-2 2 Soldani Mansion & Ponca City Art Center – J 1-2 26 Plains Indians & Pioneer Museum – Woodward – F 2 3 Buffalo Theatre & Community Centre – F 1 27 Ralph Cain Jr. Memorial Newspaper Museum – Carmen – H 2 4 Camp McFadden – J 1 (Kaw City) 28 Sam and Burla Snyder History Center – Hennessey – H-I 3 5 Carolyn Renfrow Event Center – F 2 (Woodward) 29 Sand Creek Museum @ Major County Historical Society Complex – Fairview – H 2 5 Josie Adams Cultural Center – F 2 (Woodward) 30 Sod House Museum – Aline – H 1 5 Woodward Arts Theatre – F 2 31 Stattuck Windmill Museum & Park – Shattuck – E-F 2 6 Cimarron County Music Theatre – A 1 (Boise City) 32 T.B. Ferguson Home Museum – Watonga – H 3-4 7 Guymon Community Theatre – C 1-2 33 Top of Oklahoma Museum – Blackwell – I/J 1 8 The Garber Community Theatre – I 2 REDCARPETCOUNTRY.COM REDCARPETCOUNTRY.COM REDCARPETCOUNTRY.COM REDCARPETCOUNTRY.COM REDCARPETCOUNTRY.COM REDCARPETCOUNTRY.COM 34 “Twister” the Movie Museum – Wakita – H-I 1 9 Watonga Liberty Theatre – H 3-4 35 Waynoka Air Rail Museum & Waynoka Station – Waynoka – G 2
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1 PUBLIC GOLF COURSES 1 INTERESTING PLACES/HISTORICAL SITES 1 Alva Golf and Country Club –9 hole – G 1 1 1901 Ferguson Chapel – Watonga – H 3 2 Beaver Pioneer Park Golf Course—9 hole – D/E 1 2 Autograph Rock – Boise City – A 1 3 Blackwell Municipal Golf Course—9 hole – I/J 1 2 World War II Bombing Site Memorial – Boise City – A 1 4 Boiling Spring Golf Course—18 hole— F 3 3 Burnham Site Archaeological Dig – G 1 5 Crystal Beach Golf Course—9 hole— F 1 4 Cann Memorial Garden – Ponca City – J 1 6 Doby Springs Municipal Golf Course—9 hole— F 1 4 Centennial Plaza & Monument – Ponca City – J 1 7 Fairview Golf Course—9 hole— G/H 2 5 Dinosaur Tracks – Kenton – A 1 8 Golden Oaks Golf Course—9 hole— I 2 (Enid) 6 Historic Military Site – Fort Supply – F 2 8 Pheasant Run Golf Club—18 hole— I 2 (Enid) 7 L.L. Stine House & Community Center – Woodward – F 2 9 Kingfisher Golf Course—18 hole— H/I 3/4 8 Tri-State Marker – A 1 10 Laverne Golf & Country Club—9 hole— F 1 9 Veteran’s Memorial Wall @ Woodring Airport – Enid – I 2 11 Lew Wentz Memorial Golf Course—18 hole— J 1 1 WINERIES & TASTING ROOMS 12 Meadowlake Golf Course—18 hole— I 2 1 Base Vines & Cattle – Geary – H 4 13 Medford Golf Course—9 hole— I 1 2 Indian Creek Village Winery – West of Ringwood – H 2 14 Newkirk Golf Course—9 hole— J 1 3 Plymouth Valley Cellars – South of Fairview – H 3 15 Northern Hills Golf Course—9 hole— I 2 4 Turner Me On – East of Hennessey – H 3 16 Okeene Municipal Golf Course—9 hole— H 3 4 Vernost Wine Co. – Hennessey – H-I 3 17 OPSU Golf Course—9 hole— C 2 (Goodwell) 5 Whirlwind Winery Tasting Room – Watonga – H 3-4 18 Perry Golf & Country Club—9 hole— I 2/3 19 Rolling Meadows Golf Club—9 hole— I 2 (Covington) 20 Roman Nose Golf Course—18 hole— H 3 (North of Watonga) 20 Watonga Golf Course—9 hole— H 3/4 LEGEND 21 Shattuck Golf Club—9 hole— E/F 2/3 Interesting Places/ 1 1 Museums Interstate 22 Sunset Hills Golf Course—18 hole – C 1-2 (Guymon) Historical Sites Highway 23 Turkey Creek Golf Course—18 hole— H/I 3 (West of Hennessey) Recreational Wineries & 1 Areas 1 Tasting Rooms U.S. Highway Major Fishing Public Golf 1 Lakes 1 Courses Turnpike
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Perry was established by the Cherokee traces the history of the Cherokee Outlet. Strip Land Run of 1893. Perry is centrally In addition to the museum, the grounds located off I-35, 60 miles north of include outdoor exhibits, an implement Attractions Oklahoma City, 83 miles west of Tulsa building and shaded picnic areas. Also Cherokee Strip Museum, Rose Hill School, and 100 miles south of Wichita. on the grounds is the Rose Hill School, Ditch With Heritage Center & Museum, Named for J.A. Perry, one of the a one-room school house, where many Lake McMurty, Perry Golf & Country Club, township commissioners, Perry is the Oklahoma fourth graders experience a Rolling Meadows Golf Course in Covington county seat of Noble County. At one living history program each year. point Perry contained 110 saloons and On the square you will find Historial Significance gambling houses and was home to the everything your heart desires from The morning of September 16, 1893, notorious Doolin Gang. Today this friendly antiques to unique. Make a stop by thousands of people on the lines ran for historic town is proud of its agricultural one of our local shops and stay to the land available for settlement. history, progressive businesses and eat lunch at one of our restaurants. home-town values. Many events take place on the historic You can learn about the history of the downtown square including the Spring area at the Cherokee Strip Museum, at Festival Car and Motorcycle Show and exit 186 off I-35. This five-acre complex the annual Cherokee Strip Celebration. TONKAWA (Kay County)
Native Americans, hardy pioneers, of Oklahoma.” The picturesque Heart in educators, oilmen, German prisoners of the Park Labyrinth with its timeline of war and creative citizens have all left Tonkawa history and the Grand Heart their mark on this city on the Salt Fork Walk of art panels surrounded by Museum and the A.D. Buck History River. Tonkawa (the word translates as personalized pavers are the latest and Welcome Center - give glimpses “they all stay together”) takes its name additions to Centennial Park. A number of the history of the Tonkawa. from the Tonkawa Tribe. Because of of historical monuments and three abundant wheat production in the area, museums - the McCarter Museum of Tonkawa styles itself the “Wheatheart Tonkawa History, the Tonkawa Tribal
Attractions Historial Significance Photo Opportunities McCarter Museum of Tonkawa History, Tonkawa was the site of a POW Centennial Park A.D. Buck History and Welcome Center, camp during World War II. Located at Tonkawa Tribal Museum the north edge of the city, this camp housed over 3,000 prisoners and Army personnel.
BLACKWELL (Kay County)
Blackwell’s economy has been investment casting, high tech based on agriculture and the oil and gas manufacturing, and oil and gas industry. During the 1930s through the service and distribution firms. 1960s, Blackwell ranked only behind The Blackwell Event Center hosts Oklahoma City and Tulsa in Oklahoma some of the most visited events each include: Native Lights, 7 Clans, Osage, for the amount of jobs in its industrial year including: circuses, drone races, Southwind, and Tonkawa. While you and manufacturing sectors. Some of the rodeos. The Kay County Free Fair is make the rounds to the different companies that have operated in Blackwell the largest county fair in the state. casinos, make Blackwell your home. included the Blackwell Zinc Smelter, the It takes place the second full week Blackwell is a great place to visit! Blackwell Milling and Elevator Co., the of September. Visit the Top of the Oklahoma Museum Blackwell Ice Company, Consolidated Blackwell is centrally located to and eat at one of our great local spots Gas Co., and Hazel-Atlas Gas. Most several casinos that spread across the or stay at one of our many hotels while recently, Blackwell has become home northern part of Oklahoma. Casinos you visit the nearby casinos! to textile research and development, within a 20 miles radius of Blackwell
Attractions Historial Significance Photo Opportunities Top of Oklahoma Historical Society Lying along the Chikaskia River, Beatty Rodgers Park & Museum, Kay County Free Fair, Blackwell came into existence during Old Railroad Depot Blackwell’s Fourth of July Activities, the Cherokee Outlet Opening on Blackwell Municipal Golf Course September 16, 1893. The town is named for Andrew J. Blackwell, who was the dominant force in its founding.
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Kaw Lake’s 1,000-foot dam and fish-attraction areas, bait shops, restau- spillway rise 121 feet above the rants and stores throughout the area. riverbed, creating a 38-mile-long lake There are seven public use areas, two with more than 170 miles of shoreline. swim beaches and 13 boat ramps It’s a recreation paradise with boating, located around the lake for visitors to camping areas is recommended from skiing, hunting and fishing, picnicking enjoy. Campers can select from 268 May through September. You can and camping. Kaw Lake and the Arkansas family campsites, many of which are make reservations by contacting River have long been known for blue equipped with water and electric www.recreation.gov or 877-444-6777. cats as well as bass, crappie, walleye, hookups. Groups of all types enjoy two stripers and even a spoonbill or two. group camping areas at Osage Cove The lake has several man-made and Sarge Creek. Reserved use of
Attractions Historial Significance Photo Opportunities Kaw Lake, Sun n’ Fun Waterpark, Camp Kaw Dam was authorized by Congress Scenic photos can be McFadden, Camping, Fishing, Boating, in the Flood Control Act of 1962. The taken by the spillway and Kanza Museum dam was completed by the Corps of throughout the lake. Engineers in May 1976. PONCA CITY (Kay County)
From a mansion on the prairie to become Conoco. fancy dancing…. From medieval castles For the art enthusiast, the historic for campers to a museum dedicated to Poncan Theatre offers a number of women…. Ponca City will greet you with outstanding performances in an the unexpected. Ponca City thrives on authentic and beautiful vaudeville Also in Ponca City we have the Bryant the diversity of its attractions, its elegant theatre. Opening in 1927, the Poncan Baker Gallery, Matzene Art Collection, architecture and the unique nature of Theatre enjoyed the “golden era” of L.A. Cann Gardens, and Wentz Pool & the pioneers who made Ponca City their cinema and all that came with it. Camp, Ponca City Art Center, 3 lakes, home. We’re expecting you! A $1 million restoration project was 8 casinos, and many opportunities for In 1914 oil baron E.W. Marland completed in 1994, restoring its original outdoor recreation with our walking/ began construction on his first home, beauty. Today the Poncan is home to a biking trails and 3 disc golf courses. for his wife, Mary Virginia, and adopted large collection of priceless movie lobby This diverse community provides children, Lydie and George Roberts. This art from the 1920’s & 1930’s that can many events throughout the year, such as restored 22 room mansion was designed only be seen in Ponca City. The Poncan the Herb Festival, KawFest, Cruisin’ Grand, with ground breaking amenities and Theatre also hosts many musical and Cherokee Strip Golf Classic, Ponca City the first indoor swimming pool in theatrical events throughout the year. Fine Arts Festival, Cherokee Strip BBQ Oklahoma. The displays represent Ponca City is home to the tallest Cook-off, PRCA 101 Wild West Rodeo, Marland’s family and his oil empire of bronze statue in the state of Oklahoma, Standing Bear Pow Wow, Oktoberfest, the 1920’s. Also located in Marland’s a 22-foot bronze statue of Ponca Chief and the largest Festival of Angels lighting Grand Home is the 101 Ranch Museum Standing Bear. The Standing Bear display in northern Oklahoma and which tells the stories of cowboys and Museum and Education Center is home southern Kansas. rodeo greats that lived at the 101 Ranch to many artifacts from the 6 local area just south west of Ponca City. The home tribes as well as a beautiful art gallery Attractions also features a large collection of Native containing Native American art and Marland Mansion, Marland’s Grand Home, American artifacts acquired from the pottery. A permanent arbor, located 101 Ranch Museum, Conoco Museum, area tribes. just west of the park, hosts the annual Pioneer Woman Statue & Museum, Wentz Be sure to enjoy a tour of Ponca Standing Bear Pow Wow held in Pool & Lew Wentz Memorial Golf Course, City’s E.W. Marland Estate, a 55-room September. Enjoy a stroll down a Poncan Theatre, Ponca Playhouse, Sun castle modeled after the Davanzati winding trail with tribal viewing courts ‘n Fun Water Park, Standing Bear Park & Palace in Florence, Italy. With over that tell the story of the six area tribes: Museum, Ponca Lake 43,000 sq.ft., this mansion contains a Kaw, Osage, Otoe-Missouria, Pawnee, leather-lined elevator, 12 bathrooms, Ponca, and Tonkawa. Historial Significance 3 kitchens, 7 fireplaces and an elegant If you are a history buff, you must Prominent resident Ernest Whitworth ballroom with a 24-karet gold leaf see the famous Pioneer Woman Statue Marland struck oil in June 1911 in covered ceiling worth over $2 million, and Musuem. Showcasing the stories Ponca City and the Marland Oil this home is also listed as a National of Oklahoma’s pioneering women and Company was born, what is now Historic Landmark. This is our Marland their influence on the development the ConocoPhillips Company. Mansion built by oil tycoon E.W. of the state and nation, this facility Marland and his second wife, Lydie, preserves their legacy. 12 sculptors Photo Opportunities in 1928. There is not another mansion created bronze statues depicting Marland’s Mansion, Poncan Theatre, in Oklahoma, Kansas, or Texas like this pioneer women, and these statues Standing Bear Museum, L.A. Cann one. While you’re at it you won’t want traveled the country by train and Gardens, Centennial Plaza & Monument, to miss the Conoco Museum. Immerse were voted on by over 750,000 people. Wentz Pool. yourself in the rich history of one of the Bryant Baker’s “Confident” was selected premier energy companies of the 20th as the statue to honor pioneer women century. This state-of-the-art museum across the nation. 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Make yourself at home: • 62 guestrooms • Refrigerators • Flat-screens televisions • Wireless internet Family-friendly and close to Ponca Plaza, Marland Mansion and Wentz Memorial Golf Course.
3405 N. 14th St. • Ponca City, OK 74601 • 855-213-0582
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