Talimena Scenic Drive

  Talimena Scenic Drive The Talimena National Scenic Byway, a breathtaking 54-mile route, is known for its spectacular views. Designated by the U.S. Department of Transportation as an official National Scenic Byway, Talimena Drive was built specifically to highlight the area’s beautiful foliage and spans one of the highest mountain

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Tallgrass Prairie Preserve

Tallgrass Prairie Preserve The Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve is the largest (39,650 acres) protected remnant of tallgrass prairie left on earth. Due to urban sprawl and conversion to cropland, this ecoregion, originally spanning across 14 states from Texas to Minnesota, have left less than 4% remaining of this

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Shattuck Windmill Museum – Oklahoma

Shattuck Windmill Museum Description: Shattuck Windmill Museum is an outdoor park and museum featuring 51 completely restored windmills which were, and still are used to pump water from wells, in the dry grasslands of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.  The site also features a “Dugout” home, with a sod roof, as

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Picher Oklahoma – Birth of a Ghost Town

Picher Oklahoma Update: There is virtually nothing left in Pitcher to photograph. The government has bulldozed and cleared almost all of the buildings. Description: Picher was home to mines that supplied bullets for U.S. soldiers fighting in World War I and II.  Its population reached a peak of 16,000 as

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Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge

Nestled in gently rolling foothills of the Ozark Mountains, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge is home to wildlife as unique as the bald eagle and as elusive as the bobcat. Fertile bottomlands at the confluence of the Arkansas and Canadian Rivers make this east-central Oklahoma refuge a terrific wildlife viewing destination.

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