Gimme something fun in OKC this weekend...

[Pazuzu]

Please. Apparently we're staying in the Bricktown area, and we have no car but we Uber without question.

Music, bars, food, museums, hiking mountains, climbing skyscrapers, flying private jets, solving world hunger, anything is on the table.

Thanks!

[wswartzwel]

Myriad Botanical gardens is nice.

[Sooner or later]

About 6 or 7 miles to The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

[Seahawk]

Party at Glen's?

[GH85Carrera]

Lots of things to do. Get a day pass on the trolley. It will take you right to the bombing memorial. That is not "fun" at all, but all Americans should see it. Then ride the trolley over to the Oklahoma Art museum. They have a great collection. There is a really cool bar in the former vault in the old First National Bank building. Bricktown itself has a ton of bars and great restaurants. Our favorite restaurant is Charlestons. If you like like Prime Rib, get that, and it is wonderful perfection.

Toby Kieth's "I love this bar" is right there as well. If you like C&W music it is supposed to be a fun place. I have eaten there a few times, but never tired the night life.

Take the river boat ride. It just goes to the end of the canal, and back, so you end up in the same place, but the boat driver has some interesting facts and points out different buildings. It really is interesting.

Another place that can be a blast, is the river front area. It is a bit early in the year for much to be happening there, but they have an Olympic training center for sculling, and a white water rafting or kayaking course. They have a zip line, and climbing on ropes, a BMX bike course.

Head over to the First Americans Museum. It opened just a year or so ago. Very cool place, and they are building a huge indoor water park, but that will not be ready for a year yet.

Walk over to the Myriad Botanical gardens, it was just refurbished. The check out the huge new downtown park. It will be full of families out walking.

Automobile alley is part of the trolley ride. I would advise you take the entire loop for the trolley, and see the different areas of downtown. Then decide what to go back to and what looks fun to you.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Sooner or later

About 6 or 7 miles to The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

The The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is huge. Be sure to wear comfortable shoes, and if you go through all the galleries you will be there for 4 to 6 hours. They have a nice cafe to eat at.

They have some wonderful real art. No modern art of blobs of paint, but real western themed art, and sculptures. They have a huge gun collection, so if you are into guns, you can "get stuck" looking at cool old guns for a long time.

They have a large gallery of the old western movie stars and clothing they wore on screen.

[Hugh R]

Not bars and such, but this is amazing to see.

The Oklahoma Land Run Monument

Also the bombing site, of course.

[Pazuzu]

excellent info, and learning that the trolley is an actual useful form of transport is good info as well. Often "downtown trolleys" are overpriced and worthless for actually getting to anything you care about.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, the land run monument is right down in Bricktown, easy walking to it.

The entire area is totally transformed over the last 30 years. The citizens passed a "temporary" one cent sales tax, and started right away with digging a downtown canal, and converting an old spokey industrial area into "Bricktown" and after many hundreds of millions of dollars it is unrecognizable to the old area. Tons of new hotels, the NBA team new arena, a new convention center, new Omni hotel, the street car and the street car is on a loop that goes to places worth seeing. It just goes in a loop, with stops at different areas, but not out of the downtown area so it is not a transportation commuting trolley to get to work from the suburbs.

The new 70 acre Scissortail park is open and new.
https://www.okc.gov/government/maps-3/projects/downtown-public-park

In the summer the river front is packed with people enjoying the attractions. The scullers come from all over the world. The river is protected from the winds, and has no other boating on it, so it is ideal to have competitions. When Russia lost a big international competition due to sanctions of the war in Ukraine, it was held in Oklahoma City.

https://downtownokc.com/bricktown-canal/

[masraum]

OKC?

[3rd_gear_Ted]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

Not bars and such, but this is amazing to see.

The Oklahoma Land Run Monument

Also the bombing site, of course.

The land run spawned the term "Sooners" and the rest is history.
Go Cowboys.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by masraum

OKC?

One of the largest live cattle sales auctions in the country is at the stockyards.

https://www.visitokc.com/districts/stockyards-city/

And the famous Cattleman's restaurant is a cool old restaurant.

No cow tipping. I just wonder how many idiots have been hurt trying to sneak up on a cow and tip it over. Right up there with snipe hunts.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

One of the largest live cattle sales auctions in the country is at the stockyards.

https://www.visitokc.com/districts/stockyards-city/

And the famous Cattleman's restaurant is a cool old restaurant.

No cow tipping. I just wonder how many idiots have been hurt trying to sneak up on a cow and tip it over. Right up there with snipe hunts.

other than cows being a bit more substantial than snipes.

[Gogar]

That trolley is nice.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

Please. Apparently we're staying in the Bricktown area, and we have no car but we Uber without question.

Music, bars, food, museums, hiking mountains, climbing skyscrapers, flying private jets, solving world hunger, anything is on the table.

Thanks!

Well Mike, any report? What did you do?

Last night was kind of exciting just sitting at home watching TV.



California sent their LA snow making storm on to us. It stretched from Central TX to Central Nebraska! The little info balloon is my house. It moved through at 60+ MPH. We had straight line winds of 60 and then 15 different tornadoes poped up, did some damage and vanished in just a few minutes. A couple of dozen homes in a 1,500 square mile metro area were damaged. We had our recycling wheelie bin blow over and nothing more.

It was a really unusual storm. It was just above freezing yesterday morning. The south winds were blowing all day, and it was 61 by 3:00 and just before 9:00 PM the storm front came through. We were watching it all live on TV, and they even broadcast the signal to cell phones.

It is supposed to be 71 and clear skies here today. The storm pushed out winter and brought back spring.

[Pazuzu]

Friday night got settled around 8pm, and ended up at Skinny Slims since 3 other bartenders told us to go there (always go where the bartenders go). It was 30 degrees, and sucked.

Saturday we took the streetcar around and did the memorial, which was of course heartbreaking. some random eating and drinking because it was 32 degrees, and almost sucked as bad. Ended at the Gardens, which pack an impressive amount of stuff into that small greenhouse.
Sunday was a balmy 60, so the canal boat was finally open, took a trip after getting some kick ass eggs Benedict at Packards, then headed to the airport and flew out about 3 hours before the storms hit.

[GH85Carrera]

Good timing on getting out before the storm. Yesterday in the 70 degree weather the Scissortail park would be packed with hundreds of families out walking and playing. On Saturday our PCA region had a drive to a local lake and 30 cars showed up the make the drive in the cold weather.