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TaoMaas
This is so true! It's hard to describe the miles and miles of nothing but sagebrush. From horizon to horizon, about the only trees you'll see are the ones that have been planted around the few farmhouses in the area. About the time you start to think that there's NO WAY anything could be out here, as skyrick said, suddenly there it is! I wish there were a shorter way to get out to the Black Mesa area because it truly is one of Oklahoma's great treasures, but there's not. For what it's worth, there are some cool things to see in the northwestern part of Oklahoma that don't require driving all the way out to Black Mesa. My wife and I just got back from a mini-trip to the area. We stayed in Woodward for a couple of days, then moved to a cabin at the Great Salt Plains. Over the first two days, we visited the Gloss Mountains, the windmill farm in Shattuck, Covington Cycles in Woodward, Boiling Springs State Park (they're reworking the walkway around the springs, so there's not much to see there right now), and took a tour of Alabaster Caverns. We could have taken a dune buggy ride at Little Sahara, but opted to come back in warmer weather. From there, we moved to the Great Salt Plains State Park where we stayed in one of their updated cabins and prowled around the area. Before coming back home to OKC, we drove across to Ponca City, ate at the Head Country BBQ restaurant, and toured the Marland Mansion. My wife had never seen much of Oklahoma, so we've been taking trips like this just so I can show her what Oklahoma has to offer. We're supposed to go to Colorado this summer for a family reunion. I'm planning on making the drive up through Black Mesa then so she can cross that off her list. This is a little thing, but had never seen antelope in the wild before until the first time I went out to Black Mesa.
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