Last week one day I started with a hike with a friend of mine on the Mooser Creek Greenway. A three mile double loop where we heard a ton of birds and saw no other people.
I went home, got cleaned up, and headed out to Tulsa County’s Chandler Park in far northwest Tulsa for a meeting with an environmental non-profit that I volunteer for. After the meeting I checked my phone for nearby geocaches and sure enough there was one about 60 feet away. It actually was not where the cache was but there is some information on the sculpture one needs to determine the coordinates. Which I did.
There was another cache nearby where there are a lot of cliffs. I’ve looked for it off and on over the years because I don’t want to be climbing rocks or trees. But I decided to take a different tack on finding it and so I went down to the Lost City Trail.
The lost city trail winds in and out of the cliffs and is just plain beautiful. A scene or two in the movie “Flowers of the Killer Moon” were shot in areas of the trail.
There are steep cliffs and overhangs and all sorts of interesting stuff.
I find doing the shots over my shoulder seem to show the height of the cliffs better than straight on shots. Maybe its the sense of scale works better.
The clue for the cache is that it is in a hole. You know how many holes are in that cliff face? A bunch!! None of which I want to stick my hand into without knowing that is there. I took photos of various holes, none of which yielded anything. So I continue in not finding this cache.
I also tried my hand a few caches along Route 66 as it goes through Tulsa. One of which was associated with this sculpture.
And another one associated with this sculpture right across the street from the Eagle sculpture. Route 66 for some reason has all sorts of various
And further east along US 66 there is another geocache associated with this plaque commemorating the first oil well drilled in Tulsa County. Tulsa used to be center of the oil industry in the United States and called themselves, “The Oil Capital of the World.”
So I had a pretty good time on a great day in some bright sunshine under clear skies.
I am linking with Skywatch Friday
Check the Geocaching.Com website to get information about it.
…I love the Lost City Trail sign.
Even looking for a needle in a haystack can be fun in cool places! And somehow it brings me comfort to know there are corners of the world where people volunteer their time for environmental causes.
You do have fun with your geocaches
Loving the penguin and how he’s dressed, it made me laugh, have a great weekend.
Funny when someone gives you a clue like “in a hole” when there are hundreds of holes! It’s like when someone tells me about a petroglyph located near a big round boulder. Of which there are thousands!!
So interesting.
You saw some interesting things. Is that a toucan? It’s adorable.
Oh wow, I was just thinking about how I end up with a lot of sculptures in my camera roll. Perhaps, there’s a venue to share sculptures the same way we share skies.
Great art works.
Glad you had great time. Those sculptures look interesting
Great series of photos. Lost City Trail. sign great, Sculptures looks amazing.
Have a great weekend.
You do have fun searching for the geocaches. I love the sculptures and the trail sign.
Take care, have a great day and a happy weekend.
Very interesting sculptures. Thank you for sharing and for hosting.
Greetings by Heidrun
Nice trail and fun geocaches! My grandsons did some geocaching when at summer sleep away camp.and enjoyed the hunt.
I like that name “Lost City Trail”. Looks too rough for me and I would never poke around any holes, even where I live in New York State. I love those sculptures, though. Alana ramblinwitham
you appear to be enjoying such clear blue skies atm! I really love the colours of the sunset on the skywatch home page
You have such adventures.