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2019 SPRING TOUR Trip Summary Day 1 - April 5 Time Place Thing 8:00 AM Junction Coffee (Usually at Civic Meet to depart Center Music Hall) 8:30 AM Junction Coffee to Hotchatown via Depart OK-3 Noonish Rib Shack BBQ Lunch 1300 N Park Dr Broken Bow, OK 74728 4:00 PM Get Out of Dodge Lodge Check In 254 Willow Bend Rd Broken Bow, OK 74728 5ish Beavers Bend Brewery Happy Hour 46 Coho Road Broken Bow, OK 74728 7:00 PM Abendingo’s Dinner 259 Stevens Gap Road Broken Bow, OK 74728 -1- Trip Summary Day 2 - April 6 Time Place Thing 7ish Get Out of Dodge Lodge Breakfast 254 Willow Bend Rd Broken Bow, OK 74728 8:00 AM E-Z Mart Gas Up 10053 North US Highway 259 Broken Bow, OK 74728 8:30 AM E-Z Mart Depart for Drive 10053 North US Highway 259 Broken Bow, OK 74728 Noonish Marcos Mexican Restaurant Lunch 101 W Main Street Antlers, OK 74523 5ish Get Out of Dodge Lodge Return from Drive 254 Willow Bend Rd Broken Bow, OK 74728 5ish Grateful Head Pizza Happy Hour 10251 US-259 Broken Bow, OK 74728 7:00 PM Grateful Head Pizza Dinner 10251 US-259 Broken Bow, OK 74728 -2- Trip Summary Day 3 - April 7 Time Place Thing 7ish Stevens Gap Restaurant Breakfast 9955 US-259 Broken Bow, OK 74728 8:30 AM E-Z Mart Depart for OKC 10053 North US Highway 259 Broken Bow, OK 74728 Noonish TBD Lunch 3:00 PM Oklahoma City Arrive -3- Route - DAY 1 Turn right/east out of the Kamp’s parking lot onto NW 10th Street Take the immediate right/south onto N. Oklahoma Avenue. Stay on Oklahoma Avenue for approximately 3/4 of a mile until NE 5th Street. At the light, turn left/east onto NE 5th street. Get into the right-hand lane. Veer right onto Centennial Expressway to merge onto Interstate 235 /Interstate 35. Stay on I-35/I-235 for approximately 20 miles through Moore and Norman. -4- Route - DAY 1 Take Exit 108A toward OK 9 eastbound. Follow the curve onto OK 9 eastbound. Stay on OK 9 eastbound for approximately 4 miles to the US 77 junction. -5- Route - DAY 1 Take the exit for US 77. After exiting, turn left/south onto US 77. Follow US 77 south for approximately 15 miles to Purcell, OK. (We’re going to follow US 77 south for approximately 55 miles to Davis, OK. Supplemental instructions to help with the random turns are below). The town of Noble is home to the Timberlake Rose Rock Museum. The rose rock (otherwise known as barite rose, desert rose, or selenite rose) gets its name from its striking appearance. Its “petals” are layers of flattened crystals that fan outward from its center, giving it a delicate floral look. Their reddish hue adds an extra rosy touch. Oklahoma is so fond of the flower-shaped stone it made it the official state rock in 1968. -6- Route - DAY 1 Just north of Lexington, OK if you look right, you’ll see a rather unusual version of the VW Beetle. Built by Monte Bodine in 1973 or 1974, the Spider Bug is popular local attraction. In Purcell, US 77 becomes W. Washington Street. Follow Washington Street approximately 1000 feet from the city limit to the intersection with Green Avenue. At the intersection between W. Washington Street and Green Avenue, turn left/south to stay on US 77. Stay on Green Avenue/US 77 for approximately 2 miles to the intersection with W. Weedn Road. Signage for this turn is poor. Turn is just past Walmart. Turn left/southeast onto W. Weedn Road/US 77. Stay on US 77 for approximately 20 miles to Paul’s Valley. In Paul’s Valley, US 77 becomes N. Ash Street. Follow N. Ash Street/US 77 for approximately 3,200 feet after entering the city limit to the intersection of N. Ash Street/US 77 and Grant Ave./OK 19. -7- Route - DAY 1 Follow signs to remain on US 77 by turning left/northeast onto Grant Ave./OK 19. After 1,000 feet, follow signs to remain on US 77 by turning right/southeast onto Chickasaw Avenue. Follow US 77 south for approximately 8 miles to Wynnewood. In Wynnewood, follow signs to remain on US 77 by turning right/south onto Dean A. McGee/US 77. Continue on US 77 for approximately 10 miles to Davis, OK. -8- Route - DAY 1 In downtown Davis, turn left/east onto OK 7 toward Sulphur, OK. Follow OK 7 approximately 8.5 miles to Sulphur, OK. (From here, we follow OK 7 east approximately 65 miles to Atoka, OK. Supplemental directions to help with random turns are below). Oklahoma Highway 7 winds through a number of Oklahoma State Parks, including Turner Falls State Park, Lake of the Arbuckles, Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Boggy Depot State Park, and McGee Creek State Park. Approximately 2 miles inside Sulphur, follow signs to remain on OK 7 by turning left/north onto OK 7/W. 1st Street. After approximately 1600 feet, follow signs to remain on OK 7 by turning turn right/east on E. Oklahoma Ave./OK 7. -9- Route - DAY 1 Follow OK 7 for 6 miles to the junction with OK 1. Turn right/south onto OK 1/OK 7. Follow OK 1/OK 7 for approximately 11 miles until the two highway’s split. Turn left/east onto OK 7. Follow OK 7 for approximately 11 miles to the junction with US 377. Along Highway 7 around this area, the scattered trees and shrubs of the western prairie begin to fade into an eastern deciduous forest. Follow signs to stay on OK 7. Turning left/north onto OK 7/US 377. Stay on OK 7/US 377 for approximately 1 mile. At the junction of OK 7, US 366 and OK 99, follow the signs to veer right/east to remain on OK 7. -10- Route - DAY 1 Stay on OK 7 approximately 30 miles to Atoka, OK. Just to the South of OK 7 is Boggy Depot State Park. Boggy Depot was built on the military road from Fort Washita to Fort Gibson in 1834. During the Civil War, a Union raiding party fought a Confederate group at the Battle of Middle Boggy Depot a few miles northeast of Boggy Depot, which had become the major supply depot in Indian Territory for the Confederates. After the Civil War many of the original settlers abandoned Boggy Depot. Inside Atoka, OK 7 merges with OK 3. Stay straight to remain on OK 7/OK 3. Stay on OK 3/OK 7 for approximately 85 miles to Broken Bow, OK. Just west of Broken Bow, you’ll cross over the Glover River. The Glover is Oklahoma’s last major free-flowing river, and home to the endangered leopard darter and the Ouachita-strain smallmouth bass – a unique, genetically pure strain of this fish found nowhere else in the world. Secluded and not well-known this river has remained untamed (no dams block its course) and un-commercialized. Located in the southeast corner of the state this pristine river runs southward through most of McCurtain County. It flows from the southwest corner of the Kiamichi Mountains, parallels Hwy 259 until it flows into the Little River and turns off to the east. An old iron girder bridge takes OK 3/OK7 over the River. -11- Route - DAY 1 Inside Broken Bow, turn left/north onto US 259/N. Park Dr. Follow N. Park Drive/US 259 for 1 mile. Stop for Lunch. Rib Shack BBQ, 1300 N Park Dr, Broken Bow, OK 74728 (will be on your right/east). After lunch, turn right/north out of the parking lot, and follow US 259 north approximately 9 miles to Hochatown. We’ll rendezvous at the parking lot outside “Girls Gone Wine” and figure out what to do until check into the cabin at 4:00 PM, but we may be able to check in earlier. The Cabin information is as follows: Get Out of Dodge Lodge 254 Willow Bend Rd Broken Bow, OK 74728 (580) 494-3400 Directions to the Cabin: From “Girls Gone Wine” turn left/south onto US 259 Turn on the immediate right/west turn onto Kaniatobe Trails. (It’s almost directly across from the south end of the Girls Gone Wine parking lot). -12- Route - DAY 1 At the first intersection, veer left/south to remain on Kaniatobe Trails. Approximately 600 feet after the first intersection, follow the curve right/west to remain on Kaniatobe Trails. The Lodge is approximately 400 feet after the curve, on the left/south side of the road. -13- Route - DAY 2 START Shell Station/EZ Mart Located at 9914 North US Highway 259, Broken Bow, OK 74728 Turn left/southeast out of Shell parking lot onto US 259. We’ll drive through Beavers Bend State Park and Lake Broken Bow. The 22-mile long lake lies in the Ouachita Mountains of McCurtain County in southeastern Oklahoma, and its crystal blue waters provide a variety of water recreation including scuba diving and fishing. Beavers Bend State Park, located along the Mountain Fork River just below the dam, provides cabins and many other recreational facilities. Follow US 259 for approximately two miles to OK 259A Turn left/northeast onto OK 259A Stay on OK 259A for approximately 11 miles through Beavers Bend State Park until he loop returns to US 259.