Washington, Tulsa, Osage, Logan, Creek, Okmulgee, Bryan, Marshall, Love, Stephens, Carter, Garvin, Cleveland, Seminole, Johnston, Kay, Noble, Pawnee, Payne, Wagner, Atoka, Jefferson, Grady, Comanche, Murray, McClain, Pottawatomie, Pontotoc, Coal, Hughes, Okfuskee, Oklahoma and Lincoln Counties

Central and Eastern Oklahoma

Bartlesville, Guthrie, Edmond, Ardmore, Sulphur, Shawnee, Ada, Durant, Pawnee, Stroud, Sand Springs and Sapulpa

Boating, fishing, water skiing, golfing, cycling, hiking, camping, nature walks, picnicking, scuba diving, horseback riding

Trout, bass, bluegill, catfish, deer, buffalo, dove, turkey, quail, 351 native vertebrate species

• Chickasaw National Recreation Area on Lake of the Arbuckles – one of the best fishing lakes in Oklahoma for catfish, crappie, largemouth bass, white bass and bluegill. The recreation area was the first national park in Oklahoma and has beautiful swimming areas, camping grounds and areas for horseback riding. The area is also known for its natural water falls and rushing water of Travertine Creek.
• Turner Falls Park - the oldest park in Oklahoma has beautiful picnic areas, nature trails, caves, geological wonders and 2 unique natural swimming pools.
• Woolaroc Museum and Wildlife Preserve (Bartlesville) - The country home of oil baron Frank Phillips. Called the Little Smithsonian of the West, showcasing paintings, sculptures and artifacts. The Wildlife Preserve includes deer, elk, longhorn cattle and one of Oklahoma's largest privately owned buffalo herds
• Lake Texoma State Park - one of the most popular vacation destinations in the Southwest. It's famous for its great fishing, excellent marinas and resorts, its natural beauty and nightlife.
• Chickasaw Pointe (near Lake Texoma) - one of the nation’s top 10 public golf courses
• Price Tower (Bartlesville) - Frank Lloyd Wright's only skyscraper.
• The Round Barn in Arcadia
• Guthrie is Oklahoma’s Bed and Breakfast capital and has the largest contiguous urban area in the U.S. listed on the National Register of Historic Districts
• Oklahoma Frontier Drugstore Museum in Guthrie is located in a turn-of-the-century pharmacy
• Byron Berline’s Double Stop Fiddle Shop & Music Hall in Guthrie
• Oklahoma Territorial Museum in Guthrie focuses on the 1889 Land Run
• Prague Historical Museum - the Czech History is recorded through many antiques including Prague and Jim Thorpe memorabilia
• Santa Fe Depot Museum (Shawnee) is a unique railroad building with pioneer items and pre-Oklahoma territory artifacts
• Fort Washita (near Durant) was used by Zachary Taylor, Robert E. Lee, Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie. Scheduled reenactments bring the frontier, military existence to life.
• Mabee-Gerrer Museum (Shawnee) - Egyptian mummies and ceremonial objects and Greek/Roman objects
• The Jasmine Moran Children’s Museum (Seminole) - the world's largest children's museums and one of North America's favorite family destinations
• Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge protects important wetlands along the Deep Fork River and is a newcomer to the National Wildlife Refuge System.
• Other State Parks: Lake Murray Resort Park, Lake Thunderbird State Park, Okmulgee State Park, Wah-Sha-She State Park, Dripping Springs State Park, Keystone State Park, Walnut Creek State Park, Boggy Depot State Park
• Jim Thorpe, Sports Illustrated’s “Greatest Athlete of the Century,” birthplace monument in Prague
  

• Scottish Heritage Festival (Edmond) (Mar)
• Fur Traders Rendevouz (Fort Washita) (Apr)
• Kolache Festival (Prague) (May)
• Magnolia Festival (Durant) (May)
• Pecan Festival (Okmulgee) (June)
• OK Mozart International Festival (Bartlesville) (June)
• Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show (Pawnee) (June)
• LibertyFest (Edmond) (July)
• Sac & Fox Nation Pow Wow (Stroud) (July)
• Woody Guthrie Folk Festival (Okemah) (July)
• International Brick & Rolling Pin Festival (Stroud) (July)
• Blackberry Festival (McCloud) (July)
• Jazz on Bell Street (Shawnee) (Sept)
• Indian Summer Festival (Bartlesville) (Sept)
• Seminole Nation Days (Seminole) (Sept)
• Chickasaw Annual Meeting & Festival (Tishomingo) (Sept-Oct)
• Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival (Guthrie) (Oct)
• Sucker Day (Wetumka) (Oct)
• Sorghum Festival (Wewoka) (Oct)
• Scottish Rite Renaissance Festival (Guthrie) (Oct)
  

The Central Great Plains ecoregion is a transition area between the once prairie, now winter wheat growing regions to the west and the forested low mountains of eastern Oklahoma. Transitional "cross-timbers" (little bluestem grassland with scattered blackjack oak and post oak trees) is the native vegetation.