Skiatook is a pleasant community located in the heart of Green Country, Oklahoma. There is a great deal to see and do in Green Country. So if you are coming to the festival from out of town, why not spend a few extra days here to enjoy Green Country's other offerings? Within about an hour's driving radius you will find:
Please check our "Links" page before you leave. It contains links to two excellent websites that will tell you all there is to know about sight-seeing in Green Country.
Skiatook, known as the Gateway to the Osage, is identified with rolling wooded hills, recreational Skiatook Lake, and one of the great expanses of tall grass prairie in the country. The town has grown steadily since its beginning in the late 1800's. Today, Skiatook has a population of about 7,500 (in 2003). Skiatook residents are only minutes away from Tulsa and Bartlesville. Within five miles is Skiatook Lake, one of Oklahoma's most scenic recreational lakes offering fishing, hunting, skiing, sailing camping, scuba diving and swimming. In addition to Skiatook's great schools, churches, businesses and civic organizations, Skiatook offers big city convenience and small town comfort and friendliness.
Located in Northeast Oklahoma, Green Country is a heavily-wooded area of the state with a relatively high amount of rolling hills, mountains and foliage as opposed to Central and Western Oklahoma (which have geography similar to "the Great Plains" region of the U.S.). Average rainfall totals in Green Country are generally above 40 inches per year, making it considerably wetter and greener than most of the state. Its name was devised in the 1960s by the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation as one of six travel destination regions within the state, but is the most historically significant of all of them, as the name's usage can be traced to the early part of the 20th century. The area contains Tulsa, Oklahoma's second largest city, and is one of the most populated regions of Oklahoma.