Things To Do In Elk City Oklahoma - Visit Elk City Oklahoma (2024)

Elk City has many recreational activities and tourist destinations – both indoors and out – to satisfy any taste. Outdoor fun includes hiking, biking and horseback riding along with fishing, boating and waterskiing; while indoor fun can be had at any number of museums in the area.

LODGING & ATTRACTIONS

When you are ready to hang your hat, Elk City offers everything from the amenities of a hotel or the laid-back atmosphere of an RV park. Elk City, on I-40, meet the needs of the weekend traveler, families and businessmen and women needing a place to call home for a night. All of Elk City’s accommodations are within a short drive to meeting facilities and tourist attractions and offer a variety of price ranges. Contact the Chamber of Commerce for a list of our Chamber Member Hotels at 580-225-0207.

Old Town Museum Complex
Nostalgia abounds in a visit to the Old Town Museum where Oklahoma pioneer life is recreated. The complex is the steward for the present generation in preserving those moments of life experienced in settings like the interior of the Rock Bluff School, the Pioneer Chapel and an early-day pioneer doctor’s office. The Beutler Rodeo Hall is a treat in itself featuring rodeo memorabilia from a long line of the nation’s top rodeo stock producers – the Beutlers. Visitors can also enjoy a relaxing stroll around Cowtown watering hole.

National Route 66 Museum
Route 66 is the most popular highway in the United States. Its path crosses eight states from Chicago to Los Angeles. The National Route 66 Museum focuses on the people who lived, worked and traveled the “Mother Road” and offers visitors a classic walk through all eight states, highlighted by realistic murals and vignettes depicting the eras of the road and the interesting places that made Route 66 so famous. As you’re traveling, you can listen to recorded histories and personal accounts of the road from overhead audio kiosks.

National Transportation Museum
Enjoy an interactive look at the history of transportation. Kids and adults will love taking in the short film on transportation history shown in the Rex Theatre. Enjoy a trip to the drive-in theater and take a seat in the back of a red 1959 Impala to watch clips from old movie greats such as The Blob – complete with drive-in speakers attached. It’s a history lesson filled with interactive, hands-on activities.

Farm and Ranch and Blacksmith Museum
The Farm and Ranch Museum, sponsored by the Western Oklahoma Historical Society, celebrates western Oklahoma’s agricultural heritage. The museum features a vast collection of tools that were used in early farm and ranch life. A blacksmith shop and windmill collection are among the exhibits depicting pioneer farmers and ranchers and their contributions to this nation.

Visitors can see amazing displays of anvils, a working table with leg vices, a wagon wheel soaker and three-belt forges. Also displayed are two permanent forges, swage blocks, a cone mandrel and a Little Giant trip hammer.