NEW MEXICO trip
Oct. 12-19 2023
PART 12
We left off at Headquarters Creek at Wichita Mountains in Oklahoma. This is looking down the creek toward the bridge on Elk Mountain Trail.
I don't have any idea at all where this is.
Doo-do-doo-do-deet-doot, doo-do-doo-do-deet-doot, doo-do-doo-do-deet-doot! Go ahead, act like you're 9 again! The word artillery means we can go "doo-do-doo-do-deet-doot" for hours on end. This is south on OK 115.
An interesting bird crosses the road back at the campground.
I think that's a coyote crossing a creek, probably part of Quanah Parker Lake.
I'm guessing this is Quanah Parker Lake.
I think this is the bridge on the Quanah Parker Trail. This is the same stroll where I noticed some kids trashed a restroom by throwing toilet paper everywhere.
A deer crossing the campground road.
A whole herd of cattle bips down the road.
Entering Oklahoma City on I-44. (US 62 too!) The bridge at left is part of the old US 62 bridge over the Canadian River, though the actual crossing of this 1923 bridge is gone. It closed to traffic in 1963, but the bridge's main span stood until about 2013.
I-44 near Will Rogers World Airport. OK 152 uses a freeway north of the huge airport.
The EXIT 117 tab has seen less ridiculous days.
State name shields still exist in Oklahoma!
Downtown Oklahoma City rolls into view on the right. There are now plans to build America's tallest building in Oklahoma City.
I-44 nears I-40.
I-44 here has OK 3, the longest Oklahoma state route. OK 3 is a 615-mile Goliath that runs from the Colorado state line to the Arkansas state line.
This is after we bypassed central Oklahoma City on the west and north as we did on our 2021 New Mexico trip.
I-44 in Tulsa.
These piers appear to be for a sweeping new ramp from I-44 west to US 75 south.
West on East 51st Street South in Tulsa. This used to be US 64/OK 51, which turned right onto Harvard up ahead. East of here, 51st served Brown Airport, which was closed in the 1960s to build a residential neighborhood.
North on Harvard at 51st. Harvard straight ahead used to be US 64/OK 51. The bridge is I-44.
This sign on I-44 is in ruins.
I-44 on the east side of Tulsa. There's a teeth billboard that's even sillier than the rest.