In almost any given month, you're sure to find a festival or other annual event celebrating a community's heritage, culture or other unique offering. The region is also home to several outstanding attractions and memorials that showcase the true spirit of Oklahoma. The Southwest corner of Oklahoma will not only experience the native beauty of mountains rising out of windswept flatlands, but they can also feast on tales of buried outlaw treasure, Spanish gold mines, and Native American legends like Geronimo and Quanah Parker. Art galleries happily coexist alongside hardware stores on many a small town Main Street. And folks still serve generous helpings of hospitality to both tourists and wheat farmers in search of hot coffee and freshly baked pie.
Nature pours it on in southeastern Oklahoma, with no holds barred.
The blue-tinged Ouachita Mountains are thick with towering pines, and the foliage in spring and fall provides a spectacular show. For hunters, campers and water recreationists, it's an outdoor lover's paradise offering some of the best playgrounds in the region. Logging roads challenge mountain bikers and horse trails follow river crossings. Northeastern Oklahoma has always been lush land filled with lakes, forest and tallgrass prairie. But it's also a land rich in Native American history, Route 66 landmarks and a host of cultural treasures.