Things To Do

Pack a picnic, bring your lawn chairs, and get ready to commemorate the nation’s most explosive holiday! Ackley Park activities will open in afternoon. Fireworks Display will be set off around dark (estimated time is approximately 10:00 p.m.)

Ackley Park in Elk City is a 220-acre park that contains a playground and toddler park, two tennis courts, an aquatic center, baseball fields, a softball complex, pavilions, picnic areas and more. Bring the kids to ride the Centennial Carousel-36 all wooden hand-carved horses and two chariots. Enjoy the 18-hole miniature golf course and miniature train rides around the lake.

Ackley Park West, is the home of the Centennial Lighthouse, Pond, 1 mile Walking Trail with 15 fit stations, Skate Park, Thunder Basketball Court, Splash Pad, benches, and bathrooms. There is also a picnic area with two tables.

Beutler and Son Rodeo Co provides the best bucking horses and bulls to America's top PRCA rodeos.

Visitors that come to the Blacksmith Museum can view how blacksmiths created objects from iron or steel by forging the metal by using tools to hammer, bend and cut. Blacksmiths produce things like wrought iron gates, grills, railings, light fixtures, furniture, sculptures, tools, agricultural implements, decorative and religious items, cooking utensils, horseshoes, and weapons.

Come out to Downtown Elk City for Live Music, Art, Shopping & Food Trucks!

Make Elk City your Holiday destination!

Families will enjoy a leisurely day picnicking or camping at Elk Lake. 250 acre lake is great for RV camping, disc golf, fishing, or swimming

#1 rated track in Oklahoma. Red-dirt track offers awesome trails for MX, Quads, and UTV's.

Open in 1937, Elk City Golf Course is a short, scenic, fair, and challenging layout that plays to a par of 71.

Pioneer Performing Arts Center and Arena is a state of the art facility serving western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. Pioneer Center has hosted acts like Mike Super, and Sugar Free All-Stars, to Tim Hawkins and Chonda Pierce.

The Annual Elk City Fall Festival hosts the largest arts and crafts show in western Oklahoma.

The cook-off will be held at The Farm and Ranch Museum in the back of the big red barn.

The Farm & Ranch Museum features a vast collection of tools that were used in early farm and ranch life in western Oklahoma. A blacksmith shop, windmill collection, tractors, tractor seat collection, broom corn thrasher, and barb wire collection are among some of the exhibits found in this museum.

Family-operated multiplex theater with stadium seating

Western Oklahoma Historical Society Flea Market

Trick or Treating Downtown Elk City on the Corner of Main & Broadway.

Visit the National Route 66 & Transportation Museum in Elk City to take a journey through each of the eight states Route 66 passes through Illinois all the way to California.

Washita Battlefield National Historic Site, Cheyenne, Oklahoma is the site of an attack of a Cheyenne village by the US Cavalry at dawn on November 27, 1868. Visitors can begin their experience at the park's Visitor Center and view exhibits and browse through the bookstore in the gallery. Ranger-led talks and tours are available Memorial day through Labor Day.

Early Oklahoma pioneer life is depicted as visitors wander through this grand two story Victorian house. Visitors will find the lower level of the house filled with early pioneer life, Stars & Stripes Room, Native American Gallery, and Elk City's own Susan Powell Miss America 1981 displays among the many sites to see. The upper level is devoted to the early cowboy and rodeo way of life.