As you travel along the Oklahoma Adventure Trail in northern Oklahoma, be sure and take a one mile detour north to visit the United Methodist Church in the ghost town of Jefferson, Oklahoma. Built in 1895, the church is still in use today and worth the visit. The town itself has an interesting history. According…
Cloud Chief – Oklahoma Ghost Town Cruising down Oklahoma State Highway 152 in western Oklahoma on my BMW enduro bike, a dot popped up on my Garmin GPS indicating one of my earlier marked Oklahoma ghost towns was nearby. I was on my way to the annual Mangum Rattlesnake Roundup but decided to make the…
If you like going back in time and traveling to out-of-the-way places, buy the book Ghost Towns of Oklahoma written by John W. Morris and published by the University of Oklahoma Press, load up these GPS waypoints and hit the road. The book was originally written way back in the 1970’s, well before GPS navigation…
