Things to do in Claremore and Muskogee

Tourism office for Claremore, Oklahoma, a Route 66 town and the birthplace of Will Rogers.

Historic Oklahoma city rich in Native American heritage, with museums, a war memorial park and the Castle of Muskogee.

Tribal nation across 14 northeast Oklahoma counties with Trail of Tears history, cultural museums and heritage sites.

Interactive STEAM children's museum in Bentonville with a climbable tree canopy and indoor cave.

Northeast Oklahoma's official tourism region, covering 18 counties of lakes, Route 66 towns and outdoor recreation.

124-acre zoo in Mohawk Park with state-of-the-art exhibits spanning the animal kingdom.

A 36,000-square-foot castle and Renaissance village hosting the annual Oklahoma Renaissance Festival.

Art museum and 23-acre English gardens set in a 1920s villa built for oil magnate Waite Phillips.

Aerospace museum and planetarium next to Tulsa International Airport with vintage aircraft and NASA artifacts.

Museum and tomb honoring humorist and entertainer Will Rogers, with 12 galleries of memorabilia.

Regional tourism association covering six Western Arkansas counties of mountains, rivers and small towns.

Oklahoma's largest lake, with 800 miles of shoreline for fishing, boating, swimming and camping across five counties.

The chamber office for Jenks, Oklahoma, a Tulsa-area river town known for antique shopping and its riverfront district.

A 46,500 acre reservoir in northeast Oklahoma's Ozark foothills, popular for boating and fishing.

Walk inside an 80-foot smiling concrete whale on a pond beside Route 66, then picnic and browse the new visitor center.

Explore handwritten lyrics, rare recordings and photographs from Bob Dylan's archive on a self-guided audio tour in Tulsa.

See a concert on the spring-loaded maple dance floor of the 1924 Tulsa hall known as the Home of Bob Wills.

Browse five centuries of American art in Moshe Safdie pavilions set around spring-fed ponds, then walk wooded sculpture trails.

Hike, bike and ride horses through sandstone crevices and bluffs in a 1930s CCC-built park in the Boston Mountains.

Walk through Judge Parker's courtroom, the old federal jail and a rebuilt gallows on the Arkansas River frontier.

Play, paddle and picnic in a 66.5-acre riverfront park with a huge adventure playground, gardens, sports courts and a skate park.

Stand at the feet of a 76-foot oil worker statue outside Tulsa's Expo Square, a photo stop near historic Route 66.

Walk through galleries telling the story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, known as Black Wall Street, and the 1921 massacre.

Tour galleries on Walmart's history inside Sam Walton's original 5&10 on the Bentonville square, then get ice cream at The Spark Café.