Oklahoma City Tourist Attractions

Tulsa is a great place for tourists to visit. It has many indoor attractions and other tourist activities for those who love the outdoors.

Whether visiting for a few days, getyourguide.com is where you should start looking for some of the best things to do and see when in this city.

There are also plenty of shopping and dining options to enjoy making it the perfect destination for a weekend getaway.

Here are some attractions you can visit when in Oklahoma City.

iFLY Oklahoma City First Time Flyer Experience

iFLY Oklahoma City is Tulsa's only indoor skydiving facility and is perfect for first-time flyers. Its experienced instructors will help you every step of the way as you float on a column of air in our state-of-the-art wind tunnel.

iFLY Oklahoma City is the perfect place to overcome your fear of heights and experience the thrill of flight.

For visitors dreaming of flying since they were young, they can live that dream within a skydiving simulator. Bringing you state-of-the-art technologies, flying has never been this easy.

This indoor skydiving activity is safe. Each wind tunnel has multiple large fans that can blow a wind of up to 185mph (300kph), and a pressurized staging area that can fit up to 12 flyers at one time.

Shop or Dine in Bricktown

This thriving urban district is home to more than 45 restaurants, bars, and retail shops, along with family-friendly attractions, public art, museums, galleries, and even an urban beach for summer fun.

The diversity of businesses, educational institutions, housing, and leisure activities in this area make it a true 24/7 destination, one of the most distinct and historic in Oklahoma City.

Oklahoma City National Memorial

Address: 620 N Harvey Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, United States

The Oklahoma City National Memorial is a memorial in the United States that honors the victims, survivors, rescuers, and all who were affected by the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995.

The memorial is located in downtown Oklahoma City on the former site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, which was destroyed in the 1995 bombing.

The national memorial was authorized on October 9, 1997, by President Bill Clinton's signing of the Oklahoma City National Memorial Act of 1997. It was administratively listed on the National Register of Historic Places the same day.

The memorial is administered by Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation, with National Park Service staff to help interpret the memorial for visitors.

The memorial was formally dedicated on April 19, 2000, 5 years after the bombing. The Memorial features the following:

Reflecting Pool: A thin layer of water flows over polished black granite to form the pool, which runs east to west down the center of the Memorial on what was once Fifth Street.

Although the pool is flowing, visitors can see a mirror image of themselves in the water.

Field of Empty Chairs: One hundred and sixty-eight empty chairs hand-crafted from glass, bronze, and stone represent those who lost their lives, with a name etched in the glass base of each.

They sit on the site where the Murrah Building once stood. The chairs are arranged in nine rows to symbolize the nine floors of the building; each person's chair is on the row (or the floor) on which the person worked or was located when the bomb went off.

The chairs are also grouped according to the blast pattern, with the most chairs nearest the most heavily damaged portion of the building. The westernmost column of five chairs represents the five people who died but were not in the Murrah Building (two in the Water Resources Board building, one in the Athenian Building, one outside near the building, and one rescuer).

The 19 smaller chairs represent the children killed in the bombing. Three unborn children died along with their mothers, and they are listed on their mothers' chairs beneath their mothers' names.

Oklahoma City Zoo

Address: 2101 NE 50th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden are a zoo and botanical garden that covers 53 hectares and is home to more than 1,900 animals. It is open every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Among the Oklahoma City Zoo exhibits include:

Sanctuary Asia is an Asian-themed section that is home to Asian elephants. The state-of-the-art exhibit includes three spacious outdoor yards, pools, a waterfall, shade structures, and a barn with amenities, including views into the barn from a raised boardwalk.

The Children's Zoo is a place where children can explore and play while connecting with nature and animals. Featuring Galápagos tortoises, flamingos, goats, monkeys, a play stream, and lorikeets.

Great EscAPE includes two troops of gorillas, one family of orangutans, and a community of chimpanzees, in tropical rainforest plantings.

Cat Forest/Lion Overlook contains species of big and small cats, including African lions, tigers, and snow leopards, with more than 4,000 plants replicating native environments.

Oklahoma Trails features animals native to Oklahoma, including black bears, alligators, bison, beavers, and over two dozen snakes. It includes a walk-in bird exhibit and a barn, which houses bats, skunks, and owls.

Aquaticus is home to California sea lions.

Butterfly Garden has a range of butterflies, including the monarch butterfly, the painted lady, the giant swallowtail, and the eastern black swallowtail, with more than 15,000 plants.

Other attractions within the zoo include the giraffe feeding platform, the Elephant Express tram, the Endangered Species Carousel, the Sea Lion Presentation, Stingray Bay, Wild Encounters, elephant presentations, and the Jungle Gym Playground.

Surrounding the zoo are the Zoo Amphitheater, Lincoln Park, Northeast Lake, and the Lincoln Park Golf Course.

Science Museum Oklahoma

Address: 2100 NE 52nd Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma

Science Museum Oklahoma is home to the Kirkpatrick Planetarium, the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame, and several specialized galleries.

The facility covers over 390,000 square feet, which makes it one of the largest science museums in the nation.

It began as the Kirkpatrick Planetarium in 1958.

It started as the Kirkpatrick Planetarium in 1958, which moved to a permanent dome at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds in 1962.

In 1978 the foundation changed its name to Omniplex Science Museum, then moved with the Kirkpatrick Planetarium to the newly built Kirkpatrick Center museum campus.

Later additions include the Oklahoma Air and Space Museum in 1980, the Kirkpatrick Gardens and Greenhouse in 1985, and the OmniDome Theater, Oklahoma's first large-format, dome-screen theater, which opened in 2000.

In 2007, Omniplex changed its name to Science Museum Oklahoma.

The museum has undergone extensive remodeling, adding numerous new exhibits and galleries, including a kid-friendly space exhibit and art galleries.

Today, the Science Museum Oklahoma exhibits include:

• Kirkpatrick Planetarium - Planetarium shows
• CurioCity - An interactive area that includes options like playing instruments or balancing on a tightrope
• Light Minded - A section of the museum dedicated to light and electricity
• smART Space - An exhibit that explores the interactions between science and art
• Elemental Worlds - A digital 220-degree simulated forest
• Science Floor - Main section of the museum with multiple hands-on science exhibits
• Tinkering Garage - Focuses on how engineering, art, and technology interact
• Destination Space - An exhibit that explores NASA's space program and its connections to Oklahoma
• KidSpace - An exhibit specifically targeted at a younger audience
• Gardens - A garden made up of plants native to Oklahoma
• Aviation - An exhibit that focuses on the history of aviation
• Gadget Trees - learning experience which focuses on simple machines

Oklahoma City Museum of Art

Address: 415 Couch Drive, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) is a museum located in the Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.

It features traveling special exhibitions, original selections from its collection, a theater showing foreign, independent, and classic films each week, and a restaurant.

OKCMOA also houses a collection of Chihuly glass, among the most comprehensive in the world, including the 55-foot Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Memorial Tower in the Museum's atrium.

Oklahoma State Capitol

Address: 2300 N Lincoln Blvd, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Oklahoma's first capital was Guthrie, Oklahoma, but it moved to Oklahoma City in 1910. Construction began on the new Oklahoma State Capitol in 1914. It was completed in 1917.

Today, the Oklahoma State Capitol is the house of government of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It also houses the Oklahoma Legislature and executive branch offices.

The present structure includes a dome completed in 2002.

The Capitol used to house the judicial branch of Oklahoma but the state's high courts moved most of their operations to the Oklahoma Judicial Center in 2011, leaving only the Supreme Court Hearing Chamber in the capitol building.

The state capitol complex is the only state capitol grounds in the United States with active oil rigs.

Myriad Botanical Gardens

Address: 301 W Reno Ave, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

The Myriad Botanical Gardens is an interactive urban park on the southwest corner of Reno and Robinson. It is home to multiple tiers of densely landscaped areas that surround a sunken lake.

Its primary feature is the Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory, a living plant museum featuring towering palm trees, tropical plants and flowers, waterfalls, and exotic animals.

The Myriad Botanical Gardens provides multiple education opportunities for youth and adults throughout each calendar year. Special rates may apply for group educational opportunities.