Fort Phil Kearny Distance 0.00 miles

Fort Phil Kearny was an outpost of the United States Army that existed in the late 1860s in northeastern Wyoming along the Bozeman Trail. Construction began Friday July 13, 1866 by Companies A, C, E and H of the 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry, under the direction of the regimental commander and Mountain District commander Colonel Henry B. Carrington. The post was named for Maj. Gen. Philip Kearny, a popular figure in the American Civil War. The fort should be distinguished from the similarly named... Read more...

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Fetterman Monument Distance 0.00 miles

Fetterman Battlefield is the site of the U.S. Army’s worst defeat by Plains Indian groups with the exception of the Battle of Little Big Horn. On Dec. 21, 1866, Capt. William J. Fetterman, sent to assist a wagon train in peril, was lured by Crazy Horse and other Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors over Lodge Trail Ridge just north of Fort Phil Kearny. Fetterman had been ordered not to go over the ridge and out of sight of the fort. He has long had a reputation for brashness, reportedly havin... Read more...

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Lake DeSmet Distance 0.00 miles

Lake Desmet not only attracts fishermen looking to catch the great rainbow trout or crappies it provides, but “Smetty” is another great attraction. Smetty is the legendary creature believed to inhabit Lake Desmet. The lake is named for a Jesuit missionary priest to the Indians, Father Pierre DeSmet, back in the early 1800’s. Rumor has it that the Indians were so frightened by this body of water, they refused to camp along the red shale shores. Some say that the Sioux Indians believed th... Read more...

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Healy Reservoir Distance 0.00 miles

Healy Reservoir is located 5 miles northeast of Buffalo on Highway 14/16 toward Ucross. Healy is a 225-acre privately owned lake, but public access is allowed for fishing. Along with a large population of yellow perch, Healy has good numbers of nice-sized largemouth bass and tiger muskie. While open water fishing can be very good, especially for bass and muskie, most anglers take to the hard water to target perch.

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Lake Overholser Distance 0.00 miles

Lake Overholser is a reservoir built in 1919, featuring several parks, playgrounds, boat ramps, kayaking, fishing, and more than 7 miles of shoreline. The lake borders on the Stinchcomb Wildlife Preserve.

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Scissortail Park Distance 0.00 miles

Scissortail Park is a 70-acre park downtown, extending south of I-40. The park was built as part of the OKC MAPS3 project. In 2021, the city continues expansion on the southern end.

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OKC Downtown Distance 0.00 miles

Downtown Oklahoma City features a variety of attractions, from Bricktown, Scissortail Park, the Riverwalk, and much more! OKC also features lots of great restaurants & breweries.

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Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial Distance 0.00 miles

A solemn memorial, in remembrance of the Oklahoma City Bombing

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Oklahoma City Museum of Art Distance 0.00 miles

Oklahoma City Museum of Art

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Bricktown Distance 0.00 miles

When you're visiting OKC, be sure to take a trip to Bricktown! It's an old warehouse district that's been revitalized, with lots of great restaurants, brewed beer, art, murals, horse-driven carriages, and more!

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Johnson County Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum Distance 0.00 miles

Built in 1909, this Andrew Carnegie library was the original location of the Johnson County Library. Carnegie, a Gilded Age industrialist, believed that education had the power to lift people out of poverty. By the time he died in 1919, Carnegie had donated over $56 million to build 2,509 libraries. Built for $12,500, the building is Neoclassical in style, with levels of contrasting color, a porch with two slender Norman-style columns, and an apse on the north side. When the Johnson County... Read more...

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Johnson County Courthouse Distance 0.00 miles

The Johnson County Courthouse, a 'good example of Italianate style of architecture,' was built in 1884 as a two-story building with a hip roof and stilted arch windows. At time the courthouse had a cupola, a long hitching post, and a bandstand. Remodeling occurred after WWII, in 1973, 1986, 1994, and more recently in 2012.

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St. Luke's Episcopal Church Distance 0.00 miles

Even though St. Luke's Episcopal Church was built in 1889, the Episcopalians held their first services in Buffalo in 1883. Made from local red bricks and built in the Gothic Revival style, the church has a flat, pointed, exposed arched framework around the narthex (entrance hall), with chamfered (shallow angled cut) edges, a bulls-eye window, a steep surmounted by a Celtic cross, and 11 stained glass windows. The interior of the church typifies the plans of small Episcopal churches throughout ... Read more...

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Buffalo Main Street Historic District Distance 0.00 miles

The Buffalo Main Street Historic District includes 14 historically significant buildings dating from pre- 1900 - 1932. They are associated with recovery from natural disasters, political battles of the 1800s and 1890s, homesteading, cattle ranching, and agricultural and mineral development at the turn of the century.

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Buffalo Post Office Distance 0.00 miles

By 1880 Buffalo's population was large enough for President Rutherford Hayes to authorize the establishment of a postal service. The post office began in the Conrad Building on Main Street and moved twice before the post office was established at its current location. The present post office building was constructed in 1911 as part of a facilities improvement program sponsored by the U.S. Postal Service. Palladian windows are located on both sides of the front door. In 1967 a loading dock an... Read more...

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