To billings and Salt Fork, Oklahoma [mostly photographs]

[Daniel Kalal]

The towns of Billings and Salt Fork are in northern Oklahoma, and would almost certainly have been part of the 1893 Cherokee Outlet land run.



This might be considered the wrong tool for the job.

You cannot trust that paved roads will remain paved.  Oklahoma (like other states in the Great Plains) is allowing some paved roads to revert back to dirt and gravel.

Regardless of what the law of right-of-way might say; your best bet is to move well to the side and stop.


The Red River (note that there may be several rivers with this same name in Oklahoma and elsewhere).




Billings, Oklahoma.  You will notice that where Main Street ends, the open prairie begins.

















Salt Fork, Oklahoma doesn't have very many original buildings that remain.




The Salt Fork of the Arkansas River.


Riding  north towards Kansas.

[jay547]

i really enjoy your photo/ride reports. if you ever get further east in oklahoma, let me know. lady ninja and i love this kind of stuff and would like to join you.

[swimmer]

great photos as usual.  Thanks for sharing.

[sagerat]

My gawd is that country flat, yet your pics make it look like an interesting place to poke around.  Well-done.

I especially love the photo down the main drag that dead ends into the endless prairie.  

Thanks for sharing.