Waynoka, Oklahoma

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Waynoka

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Waynoka.

14 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

• Transcontinental Air Transport · Eohc

  Right here in Waynoka, you're driving through a town that was once a vital link in the very first coast-to-coast air-and-rail passenger service! Back in 1929, Transcontinental Air Transport, or TAT, made Waynoka a key…

• Waynoka · Eohc

  You're driving through Waynoka, a town that boomed thanks to the railroad! Founded in 1887 as Keystone, it quickly became a vital hub when the Santa Fe Railway built its tracks. By 1908, Waynoka boasted Oklahoma's…

• Little Sahara State Park · Eohc

  You're driving through the Oklahoma panhandle, and suddenly, the landscape shifts. Right here is Little Sahara State Park, a fourteen hundred-acre desert of sand dunes! Back in 1958, the Waynoka Chamber of Commerce…

• Avard · 9.3 mi · Eohc

  You're driving through Avard, Oklahoma, a town that once dreamed of being the next St. Louis! Founded in 1904 when the railroad arrived, the local newspaper editor predicted Avard would soon boast thirty-five hundred…

• Oklahoma Archeological Survey · 10.0 mi · Eohc

  You're driving through Oklahoma, a state with a history that goes back way, way further than you might think. Right here, in Woods County, lies the Burnham Site. Archaeologists estimate it could be THIRTY THOUSAND years…

• Quinlan · 12.7 mi · Eohc

  You're driving through Woodward County, and right here is the site of Quinlan. It started in 1901, named for a simple loading chute built by the Quinlan brothers, who were ranchers here before the Cherokee Outlet…

• Alabaster Caverns State Park · 18.2 mi · Eohc

  You're driving through Woodward County, not far from Freedom, and you're passing over one of the world's largest gypsum caves open to the public: Alabaster Caverns. Long before it was a state park, this massive cave…

• Burnham Site · 18.2 mi · Eohc

  You're driving past Freedom, Oklahoma, and right here, near this spot, archaeologists dug up something potentially world-changing. They found stone tools and bison bones in ancient pond deposits, dated to around 36,000…

• Freedom · 18.2 mi · Eohc

  You're driving through Woods County, not far from Freedom. Pull over for a moment and imagine this scene: it's 1878, and right here, about ten miles northeast of where you stand, the last known battle between U.S. Army…

• Dacoma · 18.3 mi · Eohc

  You're driving through Dacoma, a town with a unique beginning. It was platted in August 1904 on land homesteaded by two African American settlers, Nathan Dedman and Frank Kinberling. The original post office was named…

• Johnson, Hugh Samuel · 18.6 mi · Eohc

  You're driving past Alva, Oklahoma, and right here, in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1893</say-as>, eleven-year-old Hugh Johnson was driving a mule team overland to this very spot. His father had already set up…

• Northwestern Oklahoma State University · 18.6 mi · Eohc

  You're driving through Alva, and right here is Northwestern Oklahoma State University. It started in 1897 as the Northwestern Territorial Normal School, the second teacher-training college in the territory. Classes…