Oklahoma City Tourist Attractions

Oklahoma City tourist attractions comprise venues and destinations dealing with sightseeing, cinema, shopping, etc.
Oklahoma City is a business and vacation destination par excellence. Oklahoma City tourist attractions include destinations and venues dealing with sightseeing, performing arts, sports, cinema, nature, flora and fauna, shopping, dining, and other themes. Museums, malls, restaurants, theaters, convention centers, lakes, canals…they’re all there.

The Bricktown entertainment district - the hotbed of restaurants and entertainment options including water taxi tours through the Bricktown Canal - particularly makes OKC a city you need to check out whether you’re an avid traveler or not. This could be the right destination for your next family vacation or the venue of choice for a trade show or business meeting. Here’s a broad classification of Oklahoma City tourist attractions:

Museums

Oklahoma City National Memorial
Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA)
Science Museum Oklahoma
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
Oklahoma Railway Museum
American Banjo Museum (to be opened in Bricktown by mid-2009)

Theaters and Convention Centers

Civic Center Music Hall
Stage Center for the Performing Arts
Cox Convention Center
Ford Center
Lyric Theatre
Jewel Box Theatre
Kirkpatrick Auditorium

Recreation (parks, lakes, zoos)

Myriad Botanical Gardens
Oklahoma City Zoological Park
White Water Bay water theme park
Frontier City amusement park themed on the ‘Old West’
Lake Hefner
Lake Overholser
Oklahoma River
Bricktown Canal
Lake Stanley Draper

Indoor/Outdoor Sporting Venues

Ford Center
Cox Convention Center
AT&T Bricktown Ballpark
Taft Stadium
State Fair Arena
Don E. Porter Hall of Fame Stadium

Movie Theaters

Harkins Bricktown Cinemas 16
AMC Quail Springs Mall 24
Moore Warren Theatre
Crossroads Movies 8
Cinemark Tinseltown USA
North Park 7
AMC Crossroads Mall 16
Dickinson Penn Square 10
Winchester Drive-in

Malls

Penn Square Mall
Quail Springs Mall
Crossroads Mall
Northpark Mall
Price Edwards & Company
Golden Goose Family Flea Market

If you’re wondering whether you could ever manage to check out all these Oklahoma City tourist attractions during your vacation, rest assured that OKC hotels arrange shuttle services to all major destinations.
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By Shane Wauhob
Published: 2/23/2009
 
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