Start from 43 curated places around Tulsa, OK, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Lone Wolf Banh Mi
A counter-service Vietnamese spot in the Tulsa Arts District building a loyal following on banh mi, kimchi fries and rice bowls. It started as a food truck and the menu still has that fast, no-fuss energy.
Andolini's Pizzeria Cherry Street
A Cherry Street pizzeria from two New Jersey brothers making everything in house, from dough to mozzarella to sausage. Wood-fired and New York styles, big rotating slice specials, and a patio that fills on warm evenings.
Trails & outdoors
Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area
Hundreds of acres of wooded ridges and singletrack along the west bank of the Arkansas River, minutes from downtown. Color-coded trails range from a paved beginner loop to steep rocky climbs, shared by hikers, runners and mountain bikers.
Gathering Place
A free riverfront park of over 100 acres with paved trails, gardens, an elaborate adventure playground and boating ponds. Nationally recognized and Tulsa's biggest draw, equally good for a stroll or a full family day.
Things to do
Woody Guthrie Center
A music museum in the Tulsa Arts District devoted to the Oklahoma-born folk songwriter, with his notebooks, instruments and lyric manuscripts plus exhibits on the Dust Bowl and protest song. Listening stations let you dig into the archive.
Bob Dylan Center
A museum built around the 100,000-piece Bob Dylan Archive, with handwritten manuscripts, films, instruments and immersive listening rooms. Next door to the Woody Guthrie Center, it anchors the Arts District as a music-history destination.
Landmarks & sights
Philbrook Museum of Art
A 1920s Italianate oil-baron villa in Midtown turned art museum, set on 25 acres of formal gardens with fountains and a tempietto. The collection runs from Native American baskets and pottery to European painting, but the grounds are the reason locals keep coming back.
Golden Driller
A 75-foot statue of an oil-field roughneck standing outside the Tulsa Expo Center, holding onto a real derelict oil derrick. Built for a 1950s petroleum exposition, it is the state monument of Oklahoma and Tulsa's most photographed roadside landmark.