Consider what follows as fuel for a week’s worth of fun in our state. From roadtrip ideas and activities the kids will love to spring break options for the college crowd home for the break, here are the 50 best spring break things to do in Oklahoma, fresh from This Land Events Editor Natasha Ball.

• Take a tour of Blue Bell Creamery in Broken Arrow. The price? Starting at $3.
• Park in the back at Admiral Twin Drive-In in Tulsa.
• Get up close and personal with some six-foot bison at Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Pawhuska.
• Throw the kids out on adult-only skate night at Skateland in Tulsa.
• Learn about new watermelon varieties at Linnaeus Teaching Garden in Tulsa.
• Meet an albino alligator at Tulsa Zoo.
• Read in a rainforest at the Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory in Oklahoma City.
• Go fishing in one of Tulsa’s urban fisheries.
• Hunt for crystals, explore caves, or simply go hiking at one of our 35 Oklahoma state parks.
• Celebrate the vernal equinox at the Spiro Mounds.
• Get the blues at the Eric Clapton tour stop in OKC.
• Summit our state at Black Mesa State Park & Nature Preserve.
• Karaoke with drag queens at New Age Renegade in Tulsa.
• Hunt for ghosts at the Cavehouse in Tulsa.
• Satisfy your curiosity at the 2013 Miss Pole Dance Oklahoma.
• Brand a steer—or at least learn how—at the Cowboy Roundup at Oklahoma History Center.
• Become a citizen of the Holy City of the Wichitas, near Lawton.
• Sleep with the sharks at Oklahoma Aquarium in Jenks.
• Train to be an Oklahoma storm spotter (and here).
• See what’s up at the Center of the Universe, in Tulsa.
• Laugh at Jim Gaffigan at Brady Theater.
• Pay your respects to Geronimo, at Fort Sill.
• Hunt dinosaurs at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History.
• Add your poem to the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry.
• Visit the world’s largest folk-art totem pole, in Foyil.
• Drop in to Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa for some family art time.
• Investigate some runes, in Heavener.
• Eat an entire fried chicken at Eischen’s, which claims to be Oklahoma’s oldest bar (ask for extra pickles).
• Take a Route 66 roadtrip, from Miami to Elk City.
• Stock up on rose rocks at the Timberlake Rose Rock Museum in Noble.
• Visit a concrete circus in Hugo.
• Take a walk through the Bible in Talihina.
• Play miniature golf in a waterfall in Tulsa.
• Procure your very own prairie dog skull at the Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma City.
• Give your imagination a boost with an afternoon at the Hardesty Arts Center in Tulsa.
• Discover the state’s only geometry playground at the Oklahoma Science Museum.
• Sit in Loud City at an OKC Thunder game.
• Peer through the tiny glass bottles of illicit substances at the Frontier Drugstore Museum, in Guthrie.
• Ride in the five-sided elevator at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower & Art Center in Bartlesville.
• Bask in the splendor of the world’s largest masonic building, in Guthrie.
• Go green with the Myriad Botanical Gardens in Oklahoma City.
• Nuzzle the Blue Whale in Catoosa.
• Sip some wine at one of Oklahoma’s dozens of wineries.
• Learn stomp dancing at the Three Sisters Spring Celebration at the Chickasaw Cultural Center.
• Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in just about every corner of the state.
• Crown yourself King of the Road at the Roger Miller Museum in Erick.
• Visit an astrobleme in Ames.
• Tap your toes at a Pokey LaFarge concert in Bartlesville.
• Ruin your best white t-shirt in the restaurants of Krebs (Italian food capital of the state).
• Walk in the tracks of dinosaurs, in Kenton.

For even more ideas on things to do in Oklahoma, check out the statewide This Land Events page. It is set up so that you can search by zip code or the category of fun that you seek.

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