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Welcome to this website about scenery in Oklahoma! I moved to this state in 2004 from the east coast, and it didn't take me long to learn to love it. Some friends took me to the wonderful Wichita National Wildlife Preserve, and I was hooked. Since then, I've been amazed at how much variety there is here, and I've spent a lot of time wandering. As my wife and I are avid photographers, we've taken a lot of pictures of our travels. We decided to post them here to give people an idea of how diverse a state this truly is. These are certainly not a comprehensive guide to Oklahoma, and are biased towards what interests us. We love small towns, nature, good food, neat signage, architecture, and history; we therefore seek these things out. Another bias to look out for is that I only try to take pictures of public buildings or abandoned homes, I try not to put people's houses on the site. Thus, some towns look a bit rougher than they actually are. This is especially true of small, rural towns (for example Gotebo, Maud) that have very well maintained homes but an abandoned downtown district. Don't assume anything about a place based on these photos! Our best guides have been friends, the Oklahoma State Highway Map, and John W Morris's Ghost Towns of Oklahoma. Many of the places listed here can be found in Morris's book, as we initially made it our goal to see everything in it. Enjoy this site, and our state! |
The photos are arranged in arbitrary regions based on their general distance from Oklahoma City. Some regions don't make a lot of sense at first This is generally because an attempt was made to keep related places together (for example, US 66 west of OKC is all in the Southwestern Region, even though Geary isn't southwest.) To see photos for a particular place, click the link for the region it is listed under. The links take you to a page of thumbnail photos. Clicking each thumbnail gives you a larger size image. There will be links to let you go forward or backwards one image. The symbol "*" means that new photos were recently added for this place. Northwestern Oklahoma Please click the link above for: Alfalfa County Aline Alva Ashley Avard Beaver County Black Mesa Boise City Cestos Cherokee Cimarron County Cheyenne Eagle City Elmwood Freedom Ingersoll Kenton Kingfisher County Lenora Medford Slapout Strong City Taloga Waynoka Woods County Yewed .......... Oklahoma City Metro Please click the link above for: Arcadia Bethany Bricktown Capitol Hill Deep Deuce Downtown Edmond El Reno Ft Reno Lake Thunderbird State Park Moore Norman Oklahoma City Warr Acres Yukon .......... Northeastern Oklahoma (Page 1) Shawnee Reservoir Luther McCloud Midlothian Fallis Deep Fork of the Canadian River Wellston Warwick Guthrie Langston Pleasant Valley Cimarron River Mulhall Orlando Prague Chandler (Part 1) - Northeastern Oklahoma (Page 2) Chandler (Part 2) Davenport Stroud Depew Perry Pawnee Shamrock Drumright Bristow Kellyville Sapulpa Tulsa (Part 1) - Northeastern Oklahoma (Page 3) Tulsa (Part 2) Coweta Red Bird Porter Tullahassee Wagoner Hulbert Tahlequah (Part 1) - Northeastern Oklahoma (Page 4) Tahlequah (Part 2) Claremore Pryor Salina Pawhuska Foraker Nowata Foyil Chelsea White Oak Vinita Centralia Cayuga Cardin Picher (Part 1) - Northeastern Oklahoma (Page 5) Picher (Part 2) Treece, KS Baxter Springs, KS Chetopa, KS McDonald County, MO Tiff City, MO .......... Southeastern Oklahoma (Page 1) Noble Corbett Lexington Purcell Wayne Rosedale Heartland Flyer Paoli Pauls Valley Davis* Sulphur* Dougherty (Part 1) - Southeastern Oklahoma (Page 2) Dougherty (Part 2) Gene Autry Ardmore Marietta Mill Creek* Tishomingo* Milburn* Wapanucka* Pink* Shawnee Rock Island Line Tecumseh Brooksville Macomb* Tribbey* Earlsboro St. Louis Wanette* Byars* - Southeastern Oklahoma (Page 3) Byars (Part 2)* Asher Sacred Heart Maud Konawa Stratford Prairie View Seminole Bowlegs Lima Wewoka Francis Holdenville Wetumka Weleetka Pharaoh Atwood Stuart* Fittstown* Checotah* Southeastern Oklahoma (Page 4) Checotah (Part 2)* Panama* Poteau* Heavener* McAlester* Krebs* Kiowa* Pittsberg* Stringtown* Redden* Coalgate* Lehigh Atoka* Caney* Caddo* Hartshorne* Wilburton* Red Oak* Talimena Drive* Big Cedar* Muse* Southeastern Oklahoma (Page 5) Muse(Part 2)* Albion* Tuskahoma* Clayton* Stanley* Kosoma Antlers* Rattan* Cloudy* Ringold* Glover Messer* Hugo* Paris, TX* Sulphur Springs, TX* Como, TX* Coke, TX* Quitman, TX* Mineola, TX* Tyler, TX* .......... Southwestern Oklahoma Please click the link above for: Alex Altus Blaine County (some of it) Blanchard Bradley Bridgeport Brinkman Caddo County Calumet Canadian County Canadian River Bridge Chickasha Cloud Chief Cordell Devol Foss Ft. Cobb Lake Geary Grady County Grandfield Greer County Harmon County Healdton Hobart Hollis Hydro Kiowa County Lake Altus/Lugert Lindsay Lone Wolf Love County Loveland Lugert Mangum Maysville Mountain Lake Park Newcastle Orr Port Rocky Sentinel Snyder South Canadian River Washita County Waurika Weatherford Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge Wirt Woodford All images on this website (c) 2004-2009 by Tim Dowd and Elsbeth Dowd unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. Please do not use photos without permission Photos by Tim Dowd, Elsbeth Dowd, Mark Shepherd, Eric Ware, or Matthew Galloway The map used in the title was obtained from the University of Texas at Austin's map page at: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ The individual map used can be found here. Web pages made using NVU 1.0 and iPhoto 2.0.1 Graphics made using the Gimp 2.1.11 Last Updates : 5/10/09 Major Update to Southeastern Oklahoma The pictures in the title are of the trail up Black Mesa near Kenton in Cimarron County and the Love County Courthouse in Marietta. The bison are in the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve near Pawhuska and Foraker Let me know what you think of this site! tdowd18 then type the at symbol yahoo.com |
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