Cimarron, Texas and Beaver Counties

Throughout the Panhandle

Boise City, Goodwell and Keyes

Camping, hiking, bird watching, cycling, fishing, sightseeing, canoeing, game hunting, horseback riding

Quail, dove, duck, pheasant, wild turkey, deer, antelope, prairie dogs, 187 native vertebrate species, migrating waterfowl and shorebirds

• Learn about Oklahoma's dinosaur history at the Cimarron Heritage Center Museum in Boise City.
• Re-trace the steps of frontier pioneers by taking a modern-day trek along the Santa Fe Trail, which traverses the Western Highlands.
• Rita Blanca National Grassland - Open grasslands, marshes, and woodlands provide habitats for a variety of animal life, ranging from deer and turkeys to the wood duck and barred owl. Facilities include camping and picnicking areas and hiking trails.
• More Indian artifacts have been found in Cimarron County than in any other county in the nation.
• No Man’s Land Historical Museum in Goodwell.
• Autograph Rock, bearing signatures of pioneers who crossed the Santa Fe Trail (private property; tours by appt). Rock displays the names and dates of early travelers.
• Bomb Memorial in Boise City displays one of several bombs mistakenly dropped on the city during WWII testing.
• The most significant wetlands in the southern Central Flyway, the migration route of waterfowl and shorebirds. Wetlands water feature is known as Playa Lakes.
• Some of the nation’s largest prairie-dog towns
  

• Santa Fe Trail Daze (Boise City) (June)
• Cimarron County Fair (Boise City) (Sept)
  

With a greater elevation than the vast Central Great Plains found to the east, the Western High Plains also receives less rain than surrounding ecoregions. The terrain is relatively smooth (although slightly irregular in places) and is high in cropland. The natural vegetation is the famed buffalo grass cited by pioneers as they migrated west.