By state

National parks in Oklahoma

Every National Park Service unit in Oklahoma, scored and ranked by our Experience Score.

Lincoln Bridge with Travertine Creek flowing below

100ESSENTIAL NPS Photo

National Recreation Area · OK

Chickasaw National Recreation Area

Chickasaw is Oklahoma's backyard water park with a national park address, and that is not a slight.

74EXCELLENT NPS Photo / Gene Eakins

National Historic Site · OK

Washita Battlefield National Historic Site

Washita Battlefield is a genuinely sobering place, not a triumphalist military site but a site of reckoning.

Warm light from the setting sun gives an orange glow to a rock bluff overlooking a grassland.

62WORTH IT NPS Photo

National Historic Trail · CO

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

The Santa Fe National Historic Trail is less a single destination than a 900-mile argument for slowing down across five states.

large white house, green lawn, two trees in front

59WORTH IT NPS

National Historic Trail · AL

Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail

This is not a park you visit in a single afternoon but a 9-state corridor of conscience stretching from the Cherokee homelands of the Southeast to Oklahoma.

57WORTH IT NPS Photo

National Historic Site · AR

Fort Smith National Historic Site

Fort Smith punches above its size by anchoring a genuinely dramatic slice of American history, from the Trail of Tears to the hanging jurisdiction of Judge Isaac C.

Tiles with hand prints and chalkboards set into the ground for children.

25NICHE NPS photo

National Memorial · OK

Oklahoma City National Memorial

This is not a park in any conventional sense, and that distinction matters.

A cross and bell on the roof alcove of a white stucco church.

24NICHE NPS Photo

National Historic Trail · MO

Butterfield Overland National Historic Trail

This is not a park you visit so much as a history you trace.