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The Best Attractions In Wakita

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Twister The Movie Museum

Kansas Star Casino

Marland Estate

Oklahoma State University

The Old Round Barn

Tanganyika Wildlife Park

The Pioneer Woman Mercantile

Wakita is a town in Grant County, Oklahoma, United States, founded in 1898, approximately 8 miles south of the Kansas border. Its population was 344 at the 2010 census, a decrease of 18.1 percent at the 2000 census. Wakita is notable as a location in the 1996 feature film Twister.
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The Best Attractions In Wakita

1. Twister The Movie Museum Wakita
Twister is a 1996 American epic disaster adventure film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as storm chasers researching tornadoes. It was directed by Jan de Bont from a screenplay by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin. Its executive producers were Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Gerald R. Molen. Twister was the second-highest-grossing film of 1996 domestically, with an estimated 54,688,100 tickets sold in the US.
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2. Oklahoma State University Stillwater Oklahoma
3. The Pioneer Woman Mercantile Pawhuska
The Pioneer Woman is a US cooking show that airs on Food Network. It is presented by Ree Drummond. The series features Drummond cooking for her family and friends, primarily at her ranch in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. The title of the series is taken from Drummond's blog of the same name.
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4. Kansas Star Casino Mulvane
Mulvane is a city in Sedgwick and Sumner counties in the U.S. state of Kansas and a suburb of Wichita. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 6,111.
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5. The Old Round Barn Arcadia Oklahoma
U.S. Route 66 , also known as the Will Rogers Highway, the Main Street of America or the Mother Road, was one of the original highways in the U.S. Highway System. US 66 was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. The highway, which became one of the most famous roads in the United States, originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before ending in Santa Monica, California, near Los Angeles, covering a total of 2,448 miles . It was recognized in popular culture by both the hit song Route 66 and the Route 66 television show in the 1960s. In John Steinbeck's classic-American novel, The Grapes of Wrath , the road, Highway 66, was turned into a powerful symbol of escape and loss. US 66 served as...
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6. Tanganyika Wildlife Park Goddard
7. Marland Estate Ponca City
Ernest Whitworth Marland, known as E. W. Marland , was an American lawyer, oil businessman in Pennsylvania and Oklahoma, and politician who was a U.S. Congressman and Oklahoma governor. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives from northern Oklahoma in 1932 and as the tenth Governor of Oklahoma in 1934. As a Democrat, he initiated a Little Deal in Oklahoma during the Great Depression, working to relieve the distress of unemployed people in the state, and to build infrastructure as investment for the future. Marland made fortunes in oil in Pennsylvania in the 1900s and in Oklahoma in the 1920s, and lost each in the volatility of the industry and the times. At the height of his wealth in the 1920s, Marland built a mansion known as the Palace of the Prairies in Ponca City,...
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The only tornadic supercell in the United States during may 11, 2010

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