Lawton Fort Sill Chamber of Commerce

	Discovery Trail Your passport to adventure! Visit the top six attractions in the Lawton Fort Sill area, have your Discovery Trail card stamped and receive a free souvenir at each site: Fort Sill National Historic Landmark Comanche National Museum & Cultural Center Historic Mattie Beal Home Holy City of the Wichitas Museum of the Great Plains Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge Obtain your Discovery Trail Card at The Lawton Fort Sill Chamber of Commerce, a chamber member hotel or at any attraction site listed above. For more information, click the map.


Comanche National Museum and Cultural Center 701 NW Ferris Avenue Lawton OK 73505 580.353.0404 Monday through Friday 8 am to 5pm Saturday 10am to 2pm The museum hosts national traveling American Indian exhibits from metropolitan museums across the United States. Visitors are offered a glimpse of traditional cultureal objects and detailed history about the Comanche people.

	Fort Sill National Historic Landmark 435 Quanah Road Fort Sill OK 73503 580.442.5123 Tuesday through Saturday 8:30am to 5pm Visitors can walk the grounds of this historic frontier army post and feel the atmosphere from the past while enjoying educational programs presented by the museum thoughout the year. Exhibit facilities are open to the public including the Interpretive Center, a cavalry barracks furnished to 1875, the 1872 guardhouse, the Warrior's Journey native American gallery and several others.

Historic Mattie Beal Home 1008 SW 5th Street Lawton OK 73501 580.678.3156 Thursday through Sunday Noon to 3pm Group tours, weddings & receptions. The Historic Mattie Beal Home, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is a 14-room Greek Revival-style mansion constructed in 1909. In the land lottery of 1901, in which the federal government opened southwest Oklahoma for settlement, the second name drawn was Mattie Beal. This determined young woman from Wichita KS chose her 160-acre allotment south of the Lawton town site. Instant fame was hers and she received hundreds of marriage proposals but it was the local lumberyard owner Charles Payne who stole her heart; they married in 1902.

.	Holy City of the Wichitas Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge 580.429.0855 Monday through Saturday 8am to 5pm Sunday 2 pm to 5pm including holidays A natural amphitheatre is the setting for the nation's longest running Easter passion play, The Prince of Peace; featuring 22 native granite buildings as a replica of Jerusalem City. In 1926, The Holy City started as an Easter Passion Play. In 1939, over 225,000 spectators viewed the production. This spectacular event is held Palm Sunday Eve and Easter Eve each year.

Museum of the Great Plains 6014 NW Ferris Avenue Lawton OK 73501 580.581.3460 Monday through Saturday 10am to 5pm Sunday 1pm to 5pm The Museum features special collections and exhibits which spotlight the cultural and natural history of the Great Plains. The Red River Trading Post is a replica of the trading posts which existed in the region in the 1830s and 1840s that features a fortified log stockade and two-story trader’s cabin. The Red River Trading Post hosts a Spring Encampment in May and Fall Encampment in November.

	Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge 580.429.3222 Visitor Center Open 7 days a week Winter hours 8am to 4:30pm Summer hours 8am to 6pm The 59,000 acres of natural grasslands provide habitat for bison, elk, deer and long-horn plus more than 50 mammals, 240 birds, 64 reptiles and amphibians, 36 fish species and 806 plant species who thrive in this refuge. Enjoy the scenic drive to the Mt. Scott summit which rises 2500 feet above the plains and experience the most breath-taking scenery in Oklahoma.