This secluded state park offers incredible sights away from it all. If you want to stay for multiple days, the state park offers tent and RV campsites that you can reserve online. Every August, the Perseid meteor shower is visible from the park. Black Mesa State Park boasts some of the darkest night skies in the country, so it is an ideal place to take astrophotography or go stargazing. From the parking lot, expect the hike to the top of the mesa to take at least 4 hours round-trip. The highest point in the state is 4,973 feet above sea level. Other wildlife inhabiting the area are black bears, mountain lions, mule deer, bighorn sheep, and antelope. This is a bird enthusiast paradise where people have often spotted golden eagles, pinyon jays, scaled quails, and more. Dawn is generally the best time to go because of the lack of shade. Sunsets and sunrises are absolutely incredible here.
There are so many interesting rock formations in this area. Youll actually end the hike at the highest point in all of Oklahoma, 4,973 feet above sea level. The name of this park comes from the black lava rock that once covered the area millions of years ago. The Black Mesa Trails views are incredible. Sunflower which is the state high point of Kansas.Black Mesa State Park & Nature Preserve is located in northwestern Oklahoma, bordering Colorado and New Mexico. After getting back to the car I immediately turned on the engine and started the drive northwards, firstly to tag Two Buttes in Colorado and then Mt. I power-walked the last few miles since I was not doing particularly good on time. One couple that I met near the end of the hike had climbed Denali and were even aware of some important peaks in B.C. Soon after starting the descent I started to meet hikers coming up and not to my surprise everyone was going after the state high points list. This trail is actually quite popular and important for the state Looking back from the beginning of the plod The morning sun and the thin high clouds The mile-1 chair… There were some buttes in the immediate vicinity Starting to gain some elevation… The mile-3 chair offers the most expansive views Almost ascended onto the plateau, looking back The final 1-mile plod on the plateau was just like this with literally nothing to see Me on Black Mesa, Oklahoma High Point Another photo of me reaching the high point of Oklahoma
The popularity of this hike was surprising judging by the number of entries in the register. Once ascending onto the plateau it was just a boring plod to the high point. After about mile-2 I turned southwards and started to gain some elevation. The trail is very well signed and I especially liked the mile markers. The first half was plodding westwards on some gated/private roads. I was expecting a boring slog but I actually enjoyed much of this hike, probably due to a change in scenery from the last few days. I quickly shouldered the day-pack and carried onward. The entire trail is shown on the Gaia map so I really did not need to do much research. There wasn’t any other vehicle to my surprise, but I did arrive reasonably early. I then followed the Google’s direction to Black Mesa’s trail-head. Your directions start from Duncan, OK, USA and end at Black Mesa State Park. The next morning I woke up at sunrise and resumed the drive to Clayton where I found the cheapest gas I’ve ever seen in the past few months. The Google map above shows directions from Duncan to Black Mesa State Park.
I was simply too spent to drive farther, so pulled over and slept in the car. In the evening I drove eastwards towards Clayton near the triple point among New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas but I failed to get there. I quickly realized that I was not far from these flatland states after all. I could have used the last day to get another P1000m objective but I wanted something different. I made a spontaneous decision to use the last day of my spring break road-trip to visit the state high points of Oklahoma and Kansas as I was mentally done from the prominence peak-bagging in New Mexico. This is a very popular hike though due to the status of being the state’s high point so on any given day one would expect the meet people. The high point in Oklahoma has prominence of “zero” meaning it’s not a peak at all, but to reach this high point one has to hike about 13.5 km round trip with a few hundred meters of elevation gain. Oklahoma, OK, political map, US state, nicknamed Native America Oklahoma, OK, political map with capital Oklahoma City, important cities. Find high-quality stock photos that you wont find anywhere else. This state high point locates in the far NW corner of the “panhandle” near the triple point among Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico and is just part of the plateau of Black Mesa that extends into New Mexico. Search from Black Mesa Oklahoma stock photos, pictures and royalty-free images from iStock. The state of Oklahoma is known for anything but mountains so it feels strange to talk about the highest “peak” of this state.
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