What is there to do in the Panhandle?

[1mathom1]

The wife and I went out there for a few days several years ago. I think we stayed in Canton ( maybe Kanton) in a little cabin. Hiked up the messa and went to the dinosuar footprints another day. We really liked the seclusion of the area. On the drive out there we traveled 63 miles without meeting another car in the panhandle area. The pronghorn were mixed in with the cattle everywhere. I don't know how the cattleguards keep them in? lol

Kenton. Canton is on highway 51 west of Okarche.

Just not a lot of tourist attractions out there but that is the attraction. Right? If you make it all the way to Black Mesa, it's really not much farther on out to the volcano area in NW New Mexico.

 

[338Shooter]

Check out the dinosaur tracks. Hit up Optima lake, the lake that never was, it's kind of eerie a little bit but cool still.

Dinotracks
Optima Lake

I think they tore down all the stuff at optima recently. It isn't quite as creepy without all of the brand new abandoned facilities.

 

[Perplexed]

I think they tore down all the stuff at optima recently. It isn't quite as creepy without all of the brand new abandoned facilities.

I didn't get the creepy feeling when I did some work at the "lake" at Optima some ten years ago. It was more of a feeling of curiosity. Then again, I was too busy trying to find a spot 100 yards below the high-and-dry boat ramps where I could launch the boat

 

[HMFIC]

Just keep on driving into NM and go shooting at Raton.

 

[oneof79]

You can try to find Slapout, almost like going to Nowhere Oklahoma only smaller.

 

[inactive]

I thought part of the beauty of the Panhandle is that there is very little to do?

I mean that seriously. Lots of empty space outdoors (like Black Mesa, Optima) and very little else to get in the way.

 

[jstaylor62]

This week is the Woodward Rodeo. Longest running PRCA Rodeo in Oklahoma. Granted Woodward is on the very edge of the panhandle...kind of where the eggs get stuck on the heads of the bolts that hold the handle to the rest of the skillet...

The panhandle is God's country though...there are only two kinds of radio stations...Jesus and Jesus...one is Spanish and the other is Christian...

 

[tRidiot]

Hunt quail???

 

[poopgiggle]

Hunt quail???

I've heard there's good pheasant hunting up in the panhandle. If you've never had Scots Pheasant, you've been missing out.

 

[jstaylor62]

I've heard there's good pheasant hunting up in the panhandle. If you've never had Scots Pheasant, you've been missing out.

There is excellent Pheasant hunting in the panhandle...starting Dec 1st when it is much cooler...