So what then, are the true Oklahoma hidden gems? The buildings provide a permanent set for local Passion Plays telling the life of Jesus from birth through resurrection.
You can still come and see the performances on Easter Sunday, and will mark the hundredth anniversary of the productions they predate the building of the sets. Visiting as a little girl, this place was trippy. Come and find the marker for the spot and start speaking. The cause of this acoustic phenomenon is unknown.
If you want to see something untouched for fifty years, then head to tiny Erick, Oklahoma, to check out this one-of-a-kind hardware store. Bonebreak Hardware was locked up in the s and never reopened. All the original inventory remains on display through the windows. No need to head to Bolivia to have some fun on salt flats. In the Great Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge, you can play in salt leftover from an ocean that covered Oklahoma in prehistoric times.
If you go swimming, the saltwater lake in the park, Great Salt Plains Lake, is about half as salty as the ocean. You can dig out salt crystals in the digging areas from April through October. Check with the park for specific opening and closing dates. This cash-only burger joint is located inside an old Route 66 fillings station, giving rise to their most popular item β the Route 66 cookies.
If you want to extend your visit to Commerce, Oklahoma, you can visit the home of Mickey Mantle and a site of a Bonny and Clyde shoot-out. This living museum in Oklahoma City is staged as an Oklahoma Territory farmstead. I still remember packing my lunch in a homemade tin lunchbox.
