6 Oklahoma Restaurants Serving Lumpia, Pancit Or Adobo Plates Made The Way Families Make Them
Some of the best meals in Oklahoma come from buildings you would drive past twice without blinking. Behind a few plain storefronts and strip-mall doors, somebody's family recipe...
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This Oklahoma Sanctuary Lets You Meet And Feed Its Rescued Farm Animals On A Private Tour
Some of the best afternoons in Oklahoma start on a gravel road you almost drove past. I expected a quiet pasture and a few friendly goats, and instead I found a place where every...
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Drivers Still Slow Down For This Narrow Iron Bridge Left Over From Oklahoma’s Route 66 Days
Some Oklahoma landmarks announce themselves with billboards. This one just sits there, rusting quietly at the edge of a lake, waiting for you to notice that the road narrows and...
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This Claremore, Oklahoma Sheep Farm Hands You Raw Wool To Card And Spin Into Yarn
Somewhere off a two-lane road in northeast Oklahoma, there's a red barn where a stranger will put a handful of freshly shorn wool in your palm and show you how to turn it into...
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Twenty Thousand Red Cedars Stand Six Feet Apart Inside This Strange Oklahoma Forest Near Lawton
Some Oklahoma places give up their secrets from the parking lot, and then there are the ones that make you walk a hundred yards before your brain catches up. I pulled off a two-lane...
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Booths Of 1950s Furniture And Old Signs Sprawl Across This Enormous Oklahoma Vintage Store
Some Oklahoma buildings look like nothing from the parking lot, and then you walk in and lose track of two hours. That happened to me at a warehouse-sized shop off a busy expressway,...
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This Oklahoma Scoop Shop Makes Every Flavor In Small Batches And Serves Six In One Flight
Some of the best food in Oklahoma hides behind a plain storefront on a busy street, and you drive past it a hundred times before someone finally drags you inside. That was the...
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Rows Of Lavender Turn This Oklahoma Farm Into Something Closer To Provence Than Prairie
You expect red dirt, cattle fence, and a whole lot of sky when you drive the back roads south of Tulsa in Oklahoma. What you don't expect is to crest a ridge and catch the smell...
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Hot Yeast Rolls And Garlic Dressing Come Before The Steak At This Old Oklahoma Roadhouse
Some of the best meals in Oklahoma hide behind plain brick and a neon sign that has been buzzing for longer than most of us have been driving. I walked into one such place expecting...
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An Afternoon At This Tulsa Glass Studio Ends With A Hand-Blown Ornament You Made Yourself
There is a low brick building tucked inside an Oklahoma city park where the air hums with furnaces and the floor is scattered with tiny flecks of colored glass. From the parking...
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These Oklahoma Floating Cabins Let You Step Off The Porch Straight Into The Lake
I thought I knew what a lake cabin meant until I stood on a deck in southern Oklahoma and realized the water was directly beneath my feet, not somewhere down a hill. There was...
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Outside Sallisaw, Oklahoma, This Tin-Roofed Roadside Shack Smokes Hickory Ribs And Thick-Cut Bologna Sandwiches
Some of the best food in Oklahoma hides behind screen doors and gravel parking lots, and you usually smell it before you see it. I had my window down on a two-lane road when the...
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This Back-Road Oklahoma Kitchen Grills Pound-Sized Burgers And Sends You Out With Cobbler And Ice Cream
Some of the best meals in Oklahoma come from buildings that look like a strong wind could rearrange them. I pulled up to one on a two-lane road in the Wichita Mountains, saw the...
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Inside This Oklahoma Museum All 39 Tribal Nations Share Their Own Words, Art And History
You can drive past it on I-40 in Oklahoma and mistake the earthen mound for a landscaping choice, which is exactly what makes the first walk inside so surprising. What looks like...
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At This Oklahoma Sanctuary A Rescued Wolf Will Roll Over For Belly Rubs From Strangers
Some of the best days in Oklahoma start on a gravel road with no billboard telling you what's ahead. I pictured a fence line, a few pens, maybe a goat or two, and then a wolf flopped...
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