Wichita Mountains Byway
National Scenic Byway 105 mi in Oklahoma.
About the Wichita Mountains Byway
A natural beauty capable of astonishing even well-traveled visitors, the Wichita Mountains Byway guides you through the protected valleys of the 550 million-year-old Wichita Mountains, which shelter the largest remnant block of southern mixed grassland and ancient cross-timbers in North America. Experience the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, one of the oldest managed nature preserves in the Nation and the site that President Theodore Roosevelt chose for the first effort to save American bison from extinction.
Federal Highway Administration, America's Byways's own description, in its words. Byway page on America's Byways.
Designations: National Scenic Byway, Oklahoma State Scenic Byway.
Camping along the byway
- on the roadMedicine Park Primitive Camping · City, county or regional park
- on the roadLake Lawtonka East Campground · City, county or regional park · 45 sites
- 0.9 mi offRobinson's Landing Campground · City, county or regional park · 28 sites
- 4.9 mi offLake Ellsworth Campground · City, county or regional park
Public campgrounds within 5 miles of the road as the crow flies, nearest the road first (this stretch is in several separate pieces); each one's page has its facts, season and weather by month.
About this page's facts
The line is the Federal Highway Administration's scenic byways layer (HEPGIS, a snapshot of 2022-06-24, a US government work), cut at the state line and simplified for the map; the length is the line's. The designation is the program's own: the national tiers from FHWA's America's Byways roster, the rest from the layer's designation field. Road conditions, closures and seasonal gates change: check the agency's own page and the state's road conditions before you go.