Medicine Park
Oklahoma'S First Planned Resort Town; Cobblestone Village At The Edge Of The Wichita Mountains · Medicine Park, Oklahoma
Oklahoma's cobblestone town, founded in 1908 as the state's first planned resort at the eastern edge of the Wichita Mountains, where nearly every building is faced with rounded red granite cobbles gathered from the creek and hillsides. Politicians and outlaws took the waters here in the 1910s and 1920s; the town then faded for decades and has been rebuilt since the 2000s into a strip of restaurants, galleries, small hotels and cottages along Medicine Creek. Bath Lake, a cobblestone-walled swimming hole in the middle of the village fed by Medicine Creek, with a shallow section for small children, charges $3 a person, free under five, and is open only from Memorial Day to Labor Day, daily from 10 AM until dark; from November to March the same water is a stocked trout fishery, not a swimming area. The Old Plantation Restaurant anchors the main street, live music plays at weekends, and Mount Scott and the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge are five minutes away.
Eastlake Drive and East Lake Drive along Medicine Creek, Medicine Park, Oklahoma, 73557, United States
The village is open all the time, with shops and restaurants keeping their own hours and busiest Friday to Sunday; the Town Hall opens Monday-Friday 9 AM-4 PM. Bath Lake swimming runs Memorial Day to Labor Day only, daily 10 AM until dark, $3 a person (check medicinepark.com or call 580-529-2825).