Scissortail Park is OKC’s newest urban park. The 36-acre Upper Park offers a variety of engaging experiences, including ornamental gardens and woodlands, a 3.7-acre lake with pedal boats, canoes and kayaks, a children’s playground and interactive sprayground, seasonal roller rink, dog park, picnic grove, restaurant, performance stage and great lawn. The Park’s second phase will extend from the core of downtown to the shore of the Oklahoma River, making it a 70-acre urban oasis in 2022.
Speaking of golf, OKCboasts five public golf courses with varying degrees of difficulty.They are distributed through all quadrants of the city, so finding one near you is easy. Earlywine has two courses, with the north course beingmore difficult, and James E. Stewart is a short threemiles fromdowntown.
TheMyriadBotanical Gardens , our 17-acre public park in downtown, is home to beautiful plants from all over the world, plus seasonal water features, Mo’s Carousel, mixed media art and outdoor fun for all ages. Year-round programming includes a wide variety of local and regional musical acts, yoga, Zumba, workshops and tours. Note the indoor conservatory is under renovation and closed until late 2022.
If skateboarding or BMX aremore your thing, themetro features three skate parks, including MatHoffmanAction Sports Park , with an 11-foot half pipe, a 10-foot over-vert pocket, and a street course and bowl course. Bring your own safety gear; it’s required. For the serious cyclist or runner, Oklahoma City has a network of 10 interconnected trails that lead to nearly every part of the city, a total of 80miles of non-motorized trails . An interactivemap is available at okc. gov to help plan your outing.
Will Rogers Park&Gardens is a year-round favorite for gardeners and horticulturalists alike. Located in one of the city’s oldest parks, the 30-acre garden houses a formal rose garden, conservatory, color garden with seasonal blossoms, arboretum and exhibition center.
Sometimes just being close to nature is enough. StinchcombWildlife Refuge on the west side of the metro is adjacent to Lake Overholser and features a thousand acres of hiking, fishing, bird watching and exploring. Whitetail deer, beaver, egrets, cormorants and hundreds of species of migratory birds and waterfowl move through Stinchcomb regularly.
Wheeler Park , on the southern bank of the Oklahoma River, is known for its iconic Ferris wheel, but is also a great place to hang out, have a picnic, kick back in a hammock or grab some food from one of the frequent food trucks that show up.
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