Texas' Grand Canyon is Closer to Oklahoma Than You Think

Much like Oklahoma, Texas shares a very diverse landscape across its state. From mountains and plains to rolling hills and swamps, one of the most visually stunning sights is looking across Palo Duro Canyon in the Panhandle.

As you travel westward into Texas, it soon becomes apparent that part of Texas is incredibly flat. Most describe it as perfectly flat.

The Caprock.

Known as the Caprock Escarpment, it's actually just a curiosity of the Great Plains. Stretching from the Texas Panhandle all the way down through West Texas and into parts of New Mexico, it's a sprawling and shockingly flat rock called caliche.

Down South of Amarillo, the escarpment dramatically drops off into what is called the Grand Canyon of Texas.

Palo Duro.

As you stand along the rim of Palo Duro Canyon, it's a sight to behold how a perfectly flat stretch of endless land can just drop off into an abyss of trails and rivers.

While not as big as the Grand Canyon, Palo Duro does stretch along for about 120 miles, which is hard to recognize in the places it grows up to 20 miles wide, but the initial drop into Palo Duro near Canyon, Texas, is unmistakable.

It was formed by the erosion the land succumbs to via the Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River that meanders along as the state border between Texas and Oklahoma.

It makes for a truly awesome day trip, but also makes for a good couple of nights' stay. You can camp with permits or rent cabins overlooking the canyon.

If you've never been, now is a great time to visit before the sweltering heat sets in. Here's a quick preview.

The Wonders of Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas Panhandle

Often called the Grand Canyon of Texas, it's easy to feel small when surrounded by the towering land. Palo Duro offers stellar hiking and biking, camping, and even cabins to plan more of a family or lovers getaway. Explore it on foot, on wheels, on horses, etc. Cap off the day with an authentic taqueria meal in Amarillo, if you can stand the smell. They don't call it "Cow Town" for nothing.

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Lawton's Worst Roads As Voted By You

Roads have always been a hot topic in Lawton. The local government always promises to fix them when elections are at stake, but the improvements never come. It's more of the same, crumbling roads and band-aid patches due to what the city describes as "too little funding," even though we continually vote for bonds to satisfy these issues.

Here are the worst commonly used roads in Lawton as voted by you.

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Best Places To Hide A Dead Body In Oklahoma

The question was "If you had to hide a body today in Oklahoma, where would you dump it?" While there were far more answers given, including some oddly morbid and super-specific details, here are the locales that we all agreed would likely make the best hidey holes.

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