Blackwell

Blackwell is in the Red Carpet Country region of Oklahoma. A Cherokee Outlet land run town from 1893, and regrettably a rather sordid sundown town for a good while after. Its big money-maker, a zinc smelter, would later come back to haunt the town with long-lasting environmental damage.

Get in

See

  • 🌍 Electric Park Pavilion (Top of Oklahoma Historical Museum), 303 S Main St, +1 580 363-0209. With dioramas such as one on a bad tornado outbreak in 1955.

Sleep

Go next

Routes through Blackwell
Kansas City Wichita  N  S  Jct W EGuthrie Oklahoma City
END Jct  N  S  Ponca City Stillwater


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