Deer Run Trail at Sequoyah State Park (near Wagoner and Tahlequah) is an easy and pleasant 2.4 mile forested out-and-back hike (1.2 miles each way). It is open to hikers and cyclists. It was maintained in nice condition when I walked it in July.
Category: East Oklahoma
Posts in East Oklahoma including including Robbers Cave State Park, Cedar Lake, and Winding Stair Mountain (Ouachita Forest). Also see East Oklahoma Trails Page.
It’s nice to come across wilderness trails within a city. The Oxbow Lake and North Woods trails at Oxley Nature Center in Tulsa are a couple of scenic trails that make an easy 2-mile semi-loop with lush woods and pretty lake (pond) views.
Sequoyah State Park in northeast Oklahoma (Cherokee County, near Wagoner and Tahlequah) is a really cool park. It has over a half dozen trails which are all accessible to hikers and walkers with many also being open to bikes as well.
The Billy Creek area is one of the many beautiful natural areas on Winding Stair Mountain in the Ouachita National Forest (LeFlore County, Oklahoma). I consider the trail to have a north loop and a south loop with the center spur forming part of each loop. The Billy Creek Trail south loop is a beautiful […]
11-1-2024 Note: Mike visited this paved trail on 11-2-2024. At that point, the building where it starts was not currently being used as the visitor center. So you may need to ask where the old visitor center is. The path starts next to the building (on the right if you are facing the building and […]
Overlook Nature Trail at Lake Tenkiller (Sequoyah County, Oklahoma) is an enjoyable 1.1-mile wooded hike at the south end of Lake Tenkiller. The out-and-back hike is 2.2 miles long. My profile of the Overlook Nature Trail is here. These are some photos I took on the trail last fall (November 6, 2018). There was still […]