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Family, Parks, and Nature Centers

02/20/2019 Danielle Huddleston Leave a comment

On the last two days without Nick(he was in Poland for a week), I was feeling burnt out.

So on Friday I decided to not go anywhere in the morning but did visit my parents who were in town in the afternoon.

Afterwards we went to the Washington Irving Park and I noticed that this nature area that I have seen for years finally had a trail in it!

It was pretty short but with this short hike and walking around the park I felt extra confidence to attempt taking all five of my kids into a store. We survived the store and I actually felt so good we ran into ANOTHER STORE! I know! Crazy, right? We played outside until dark because I feel better outside.

I would have prefered to stay home again on Saturday but that did not seem like it would work so we headed to the Fort Gibson Wildlife Management Area.

We were not there at a great time to see animals and I could not find a good place to go for a walk so we went to the Sequoyah State Park nearby. It had been a little while since I had been and the last time it was summer and TONS of ticks so I forgot how great it is. They want to going camping there now. They played on the playground, went to the nature center and went for a hike! The girl at the nature center was awesome with my kids and their thousands of questions. She told us all about the animals they are keeping there and it was a great way to end our week!We went on the Whispering Pines Trail and it was pretty.

We picked Nick up from the airport that night!

Everyone was super happy to see him!

Especially me…ha

Hiking, Parks

One more State Park marked off!

02/17/2019 Danielle Huddleston Leave a comment

We got to check off another Oklahoma State Park off the list last month!

Lake Thunderbird State Park! It has a nice nature center which is always a plus for my kids!

We had already walked all around the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History so I chose a nice easy trail.

The Fawn’s Nest Nature Trail was a little run down but went right next to the lake and was a pretty little walk. The kids were excited to see a little bit of snow! The campground looks nice and the playground near it was a bonus. This would be a nice park to camp at!

I think we only have two state parks left!!!!

They are the Great Plains State Park and Quartz Mountain State Park!

Can’t wait to plan a trip to see them!

My Family, Parks

3 more state parks checked off!

12/10/2018 Danielle Huddleston Leave a comment

Nick made the mistake of mentioning the fact that his Grandparents liked to visit every state park in MN.

It kind of lit a fire under me to visit all the Oklahoma State Parks and on our last trip we get to hit up three more!

We have about three state parks left and some Grand Lake Areas to go before we have been to them all since we have moved here.

So here are some of the parks we stopped at and what we thought.

Hugo Lake State Park The Bois De Arc Trail was a nice paved trail but pretty run down looking. We did not see much else for us to do there since we mostly like to hike and go to playgrounds. The kids liked watching birds at Hugo Lake Dam. Raymond Gary State Park was a nice small park. It was definitely not a place we would drive hours to camp at but the playground was a nice stop to end our day. We also stopped at Clayton Lake State Park but I could not find anything to do there so I did ended up not even taking one picture!

So if you have been to that state park let me know what you like to do there.

Do you have a goal to see all of something?