As I wrote
in last post we discovered that even in the
first part of June first come first serve campsites can fill up FAST!
We had gone
to the Hickory Point area on this lake first and discovered it completely full
on a Thursday afternoon.
When we had
previously looked at Red Oak we had seen a couple of 30 amp sites that we could
MAYBE squeeze our 50 amp trailer into.
We own the adapter to go down to 30 amp and knew it meant there would be
a lot we wouldn’t be able to use, but we needed a nearby place to put the
camper for 5 days.
We figured
if we had to we could just park the camper in a site and go to stay at the
farm, although we preferred to not do that.
So back to
Red Oak we went. As is our usual habit
we stopped at the park attendant’s trailer first.
A very
lovely cheerful woman greeted us and when I asked her if she had anything we
could use for five days for a 37 ft, 50 amp fifth wheel with 4 slides she asked
her husband inside.
They put us
on the handicapped site! She said rules
were that if someone came in TRULY needing the handicapped site then she would
have to bump us, but in all the time they had been there they had NEVER had to
bump anyone, in fact she didn’t remember any handicapped people ever camping on
it.
This site
was great! A pull through, easy set-up with at least some shade and less than a football field from the restroom.
It was
fairly level, amply wide and had a sewer hook-up. No other sites (other than the host site) had
sewer hook-ups. Because of the sewer it
was $21 a night rather than $18.
We weren’t
at the camper enough during daylight hours to take an aerial view of the camp
ground, or even to observe the wildlife much.
In fact we barely even slept there because of various errands and chores
that needed done while we were in the area.
It was a
well maintained campground with decent restrooms and more than sufficient
amount of dumpsters and we will go back there in the future if need be. I would suggest if you are planning on
staying at any of the campgrounds on this lake you arrive as early in the day
as you can and be prepared to find it full. Have a back up plan in case it is full
Nor did we
visit any attractions. But then this was
our home base so we had previously visited many of them and blogged about them
on various “staycations” over the last few years.
We have
previously visited the Oklahoma Aquarium in Jenks, OK and the Tulsa Zoo in Tulsa, OK both are great. Nice habitats for the animals and plenty to see.
The Creek Nation Festival in Okmulgee, OK was scheduled for the week after we left, but we had attended it on more than one occasion. If you follow the hyperlink above you can find out more about it, the rodeo and the free concerts included in the event.
The Creek Nation Festival in Okmulgee, OK was scheduled for the week after we left, but we had attended it on more than one occasion. If you follow the hyperlink above you can find out more about it, the rodeo and the free concerts included in the event.
The free
concerts each year at the Creek Nation Festival have different artists every
year. Arrive to the concert venue early
and bring your lawn chairs. They do use
the jumbotrons so everyone can see.
These were
all well worth visiting again and we may when we are back at the farm in the
future.
After our
five day stay there we headed out to go north, but once again the fates had
other plans for us.
Jan who
hopes that sooner or later she and her husband will be moving on down the road
at regular intervals away from OK
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