Osage Hills State Park
Oklahoma State Park With Civilian Conservation Corps Structures From The 1930s · Pawhuska, Oklahoma
A 1,100-acre park in the wooded hills between Bartlesville and Pawhuska, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, where Sand Creek runs over rock ledges into swimming holes below a small dam and stone bridges. The CCC stonework is the park's character: cabins, shelters, bridges and the old bathhouse were laid up by hand in local sandstone, and eight cabins are still rented. Trails run along the bluffs above the creek and down to Lookout Point, with a small lake for fishing and a campground under the oaks. It sits between two very different neighbours, the oil-boom mansions and Price Tower of Bartlesville and the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve's bison country, so it makes a good base for both, and it is quiet on weekdays even in summer.
2131 Osage Hills State Park Road, US Highway 60, Pawhuska, Oklahoma, 74056, United States
Day use 8 AM-10 PM with trails closing at sundown; the park office opens 8:30 AM-5 PM from 1 May to 31 October and 8:30 AM-4 PM from 1 November to 30 April. Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. An Oklahoma parking pass is required (check travelok.com or call 918-336-5635).
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