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Old 07-25-2018, 08:47 AM
 
Location: Tulsa
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I have been trying to find interesting places for weekend trips, but I live in a small town called Tulsa which is in the middle of nowhere.

Kansas is close to me, but I can't think of anything worth seeing there.

Arkansas seems to be more interesting. I tried Hot Spring National Park and it's probably the worst park I visited in my whole life.

Missouri has a resort town named Branson. I was discouraged, after doing some research online, it's probably another boring place to visit.

Texas is a great state, but even Dallas is more than 4 hours away.


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Old 07-25-2018, 12:00 PM
 
Location: Lancashire, England
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Ghost towns?


Ghost Town of the United States
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Old 07-25-2018, 12:06 PM
 
Location: Tulsa
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Anything to do in ghost towns?
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Old 07-25-2018, 12:16 PM
 
Location: We_tside PNW (Columbia Gorge) / CO / SA TX / Thailand
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Scenic Byways was my favorite site, but got taken down by USA State tourism 'proprietary' interests.

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/

https://www.roadtravelamerica.com/

https://roadfood.com/
https://www.splendidtable.org/jane-a...terns-roadfood

Each to his own... Kansas is one of my favorite places to explore the back roads and small towns. It could (has) kept me busy for years.
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Old 07-25-2018, 12:25 PM
 
Location: Was Midvalley Oregon; Now Eastside Seattle area
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Good gosh, you can't even fly out to West/East coast cheaply or timely.
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Old 07-25-2018, 12:29 PM
 
Location: Tulsa
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Good gosh, you can't even fly out to West/East coast cheaply or timely.
Allegiant Air does offer some cheap nonstop flights to the west coast, but its safety record is dubious.

Actually, it's not even very cheap to fly to Dallas, which I have no desire to visit again.

I'm a big fan of train travel, but there is no passenger train service in Tulsa.
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Old 07-25-2018, 12:32 PM
 
Location: Tulsa
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Scenic Byways was my favorite site, but got taken down by USA State tourism 'proprietary' interests.

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/

https://www.roadtravelamerica.com/

https://roadfood.com/
https://www.splendidtable.org/jane-a...terns-roadfood

Each to his own... Kansas is one of my favorite places to explore the back roads and small towns. It could (has) kept me busy for years.
Could you elaborate on Kansas?

Kansas is the very definition of a flyover state. I've heard that there's a cool zoo in Kansas that is only 1 hour drive from Tulsa.
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Old 07-25-2018, 12:43 PM
 
Location: Lancashire, England
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Anything to do in ghost towns?

Explore. Photograph. Just finding them sometimes. Picking up souvenirs (or is that frowned on?).
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Old 07-25-2018, 12:47 PM
 
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OP, sounds like you want something to entertain you, like sitting and watching a movie. You *don't* want to entertain yourself, like reading a book. Is that a fair assessment? If yes, then you have to spend money, usually an ever-increasing amount as once you've been entertained by a thing once, it doesn't do as good of a job the next time, diminishing every time past that. Can't help you there.


I can encourage you to try entertaining yourself. You asked "anything to do in ghost towns?" and immediately I thought about photography and history. I grew up not too far from a mining community/ghost town and would head up there occasionally just to get away from people/noise. I'd fish, or pan for gold, walk around the area and dig up old relics. As I got a little older, I'd started researching the history of the place, found it fascinating to stand in the spot where someone was gunned down after pulling an old-fashion stage-coach heist. Were I to go back now, the pictures would be the main thing I'd focus on... Point is, I found my own things "to do" there. The same is true for ANY place you happen to be.
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Old 07-25-2018, 12:53 PM
 
Location: NE Mississippi
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Anything to do in ghost towns?
Oh, COME ON, Man!
Do you need someone to jump up and down and play peek-a-boo with you? Do you have to have loud music and people parading around in some sort of costume before you have 'anything to do'?
Anyone with half a brain knows what ghost towns are all about. Either you are interested or you are not. I have lots of patience with those who are not interested, but you are pretending to be ignorant on a scale I have never seen.
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