Woolaroc Museum & Wildlife Preserve
Frank Phillips'S Woolaroc Ranch, Museum And Wildlife Preserve; Lodge Built 1925 · Bartlesville, Oklahoma
The 3,700-acre ranch retreat of the oil man Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum, in the Osage hills south-west of Bartlesville. He named it Woolaroc for the woods, lakes and rocks around it, built a rustic log lodge in 1925 with a stone fireplace and Navajo blankets on every wall, and filled it with Western art, Colt firearms and Native American work. The drive in is the point as much as the museum: a narrow road winds several miles through a preserve where bison, elk, longhorn cattle, water buffalo, zebras, ostriches and deer graze loose beside the car, and visitors are told to stay in the vehicle. The museum holds Western paintings, a collection of more than fifty thousand objects and the Travel Air Woolaroc that won the 1927 Dole Air Race to Hawaii, and the Mountain Man Camp shows frontier trades in season.
1925 Woolaroc Ranch Road, State Highway 123, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 74003, United States
Autumn and winter: Wednesday-Sunday 10 AM-5 PM. Summer (Memorial Day to Labor Day): Tuesday-Sunday 10 AM-5 PM. Closed Mondays, and Tuesdays outside summer; closed Thanksgiving and Christmas but open Memorial Day, 4 July, Labor Day and New Year's Day. The Animal Barn is weekends only 8 September-20 December and closed until spring 2027 after that (check woolaroc.org or call 918-336-0307).
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