4th of July Oklahoma City Fireworks??

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

I will be on vacation in Oklahoma City for 4th of July this year. Anyone from the area can tell me where the best fireworks show will be? It is just the wife and I so in the Oklahoma City area is fine too we will have a car. Any state or county fairs going on at the same time that we should see? We will be in town for 2 days, anything we should see? How about places to eat, where the locals go?
My wife looked on line and the AAA book and came up with the following to see.

Myriad bot. Gardens& conservatory
Nat. Cowboy and West Museum
Museum of Women Pilots
Ok City Nat. Memorial &l Museum-
Science Mus.
Bricktown
Capitol
Banjo museum
Gaylord-Pickens OK Heritage Mus.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Xfaxman]

She has the places to see covered. Lots of good Mexican restaurants in the area.

You can spend all day in Bricktown, including fireworks.

Here is one on the north side of OKC: LibertyFest

Hope it isn't too hot then!

 

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

Thanks for your help, TBN does it again! :yo-yo:

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Edmond has probably one of the best fireworks displays in the state. Edmond is just North of OKC; their city limits butt up against each other. There is a car show, but it is the last Saturday in June, so looks like you will miss that. The Cowboy hall of fame (West Museum) is probably worth your while; haven't been there in years, but I do recall seeing first hand a Norman Rockwell of John Wayne. There are lots of good places to eat; Cattlemen's Cafe in Cowtown is a good place for steaks and lamb fries (I recommend both), but it is a jeans and boots kind of place. Red Rock out by Lake Hefiner is a little bit more upscale and the food is great...the steaks and the pork chops are excellent. If you like fired chicken, there is a place called Eischens in Okarche, a bit North and West of OKC; it is a overalls/Wellington boots kind of place, and if you go on the weekend, expect a hour wait, but the chicken is good. Sea food is sorta ho-hum here, but Red Lobster is pretty good for us landlocked folks. Can't recommend a good BBQ place, since I cook the best in town, so don't eat it out much at all. I will probably think of more later.

Dennis

You will want to see the OKC memorial to the Murrah bombing victims; it is down town at about 5th and Robinson in OKC. The Myriad gardens is good; and lots going on in bricktown, including lots of good places to eat...Toby Keith has a nice restaurant there, and you might enjoy the boat ride on the canal. It is in a low rent district, so don't wander off very far by yourself.

 

[Dan Hunter]

Eischen's off regular meal hours is worth the trip if you like chicken. Otherwise, I wouldn't bother. Consider staying at the Colcord. It's easy to access for a downtown hotel and there's parking across the street to the east. The only theatre I'll go to is the Warren Theatre in Moore...director's suite...reclining seats and a buzzer for food/drinks. Hideaway Pizza is arguably as good as anything where you're from. I like a chicken pot pie at Nonna's for lunch any day. The Royal-Bavaria has a solid yeager schnitzel but I wouldn't attempt it without a reservation.

 

[greasemonkeyok]

Dennis is spot on about the best fireworks, and Eischens. If you want BBQ, call Dennis because the rest of the places are not all that hot.

Dan is spot on about Nona's, and the Hideaway, if you go to Stillwater.

The Fred Jones Museum of Art at OU, and the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History in Norman are both worthwhile. If you go to Norman, Tarahumaras Mexican Cafe is good.

The Vast Devon Tower Restaurant downtown Oklahoma City is top fare, but make reservations. At 50 stories high, the view is stunning.

If you go to the National Cowboy and Western Museum, Gabriella's Italian restaurant is close by, but you will need reservations for the evening meal. Long history of the family that owns and operates goes back to the coal mining days before statehood in Krebs, Pittsburg County. When Oklahoma was dry, the best place to buy Chock beer (home made) and enjoy authentic Italian food was (and is) Krebs.

 

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

Wow thanks guys this is great stuff, I really appreciate the information.

This is part of a 2 week trip starting off in St. Louis and visiting Branson, Mo, Little Rock Ar, Tulsa, OK, Topeka, Kansas, Kansas City, Mo, Springfield,Il and then back to St. Louis. Part of our bucket list to see the lower 48 just a few more states after this trip. We hope to get to all 50 states with Alaska and Hawaii being the icing on the bucket.:laughing:

 

[Dan Hunter]

In Tulsa:

Try Bodean Restaurant & Market for an elegant evening meal.

The Philbrook Museum of Art (Philbrook Museum of Art) is more of an enormous mansion with sprawling grounds and an elegant cafe. Before touring the place, stop by the gift shop and buy the small booklet that provides photographs of the rooms before all the future was removed to convert the place to a museum.

Just west of Tulsa is the Gilcrease Museum (Home | Gilcrease Museum). If you're noticing that people in Oklahoma can't use conversional spelling you're correct. Whereas the Philbrook is a mansion turned into a museum, the Gilcrease is a museum with a small historic mansion on site. Both places share a chef so the cafe is quite good here as well. Unlike most museums, there aren't a lot of velvet ropes and you can get quite close to the art. If you enjoy outdoor magazines you'll recognize a lot of the Remington bronze art. It also has the largest indian war bonnet collection you'll ever see in the lowest level. The place has a western art emphasis bit it still represents the collection of a man made wealthy by the discovery of oil - not an uncommon theme in the area - that pursued the discipline of nouveaux gentry.

If your route takes you west of Tulsa and then north on I35, give serious thought to taking a side trip to Ponca City. It's another original oil boom town that has the Marland Mansion (Welcome to The Marland Estate) that is period decorated and quite charming (the large tiled pool that was filled because they can't maintain it breaks my heart) and the mexican restaurant at the airport is an attraction that people fly in to enjoy (Enrique’s Mexican Restaurant, Ponca City, Oklahoma).

I'm sure someone else will speak up for Wichita but I always like to go to Boeing's scrap yard (it's probably just me) and I'll drive to Hutchinson Municipal Airport if it's around meal time. When I was still active duty, I'd fly in and have a bowl of french onion soup. I watched a young female Lieutenant that could resist the fried chicken and cleaned her plate, had dessert, and fell asleep during her training flight on the way home.

I find this thread amusing and would be quite interested to see what recommendations you act on and your reviews. I also want some of Dennis' BBQ; I've never found good BBQ outside of Texas.

 

[mjarrels]

Due to budget cuts... all fireworks and air shows are canceled until further notice. Beatings will continue until moral improves.

mark

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Due to budget cuts... all fireworks and air shows are canceled until further notice. Beatings will continue until moral improves.

mark

Here here! I ditto Hideaway Pizza; there's one in Edmond. Small place, but GREAT pizza. There's a sports bar in Edmond called the "Garage", but don't try to get in when there is a Thunder game going on. And let me second the recommendation of Enrique's in Ponca City. It's the best Mexican food in the state. It's located at the airport in Ponca, and they tell me that celebs flying through stop in just to eat at Enrique's.