Windycrest Visitors Page

Truck On Down To Windycrest!
You Are Welcome Anytime.
 Visiting for a Regatta? Have a lay day and need something to do? Need to know where to stay? Need dinner and a drink? Does your spouse and/or kids need diversions? This page will help you with links to so you can find things to do, see, stay, and eat. If you have any questions, just ask! Bear in mind Windycrest is in the boondocks, the sticks, the middle of nowhere. Unless it is gas, beer, ice, or pop it is a 30 mile round trip drive to do anything.
Hotels-
If you aren't staying with a club member or camping out, here are the hotels closest to Windycrest:
The Hampton Inn in Sand Springs is the newest and nicest. it is on the northeast corner of US Hwy 412 and 81st West Ave.
The Best Western is a nice hotel too, it is at the same exit, on the southwest side on Charles Page, next to the Kmart. Both are about 14 miles from Windycrest.
Keystone State Park has some nice cabins for groups or families. They are located across Keystone Dam on Hwy 151. From the Club, Go west of Hwy 412, take the first exit and cross the dam. Your there. About 7 miles away.
Food & Drink-
Here are a few places I like in Sand Springs and Downtown/Midtown Tulsa. Most of these places have a bar, salads, burgers, steaks, fish, etc. Visit the links and see menus, locations, and more.
In Sand Springs-
El Maguey's - Authentic mexican food. Great margaritas. Ask for the extra hot sauce. Great service. Hwy 412 @ Adams Road, in the Shops of Sand Springs Center.
China Star Buffet - Big Chinese buffet that is always crowded and always good. Adams Rd & Charles Page Blvd.
Old Town Cafe - Comfort food from an All America Diner. Breakfast all day. 2nd & Lincoln
In Tulsa -
Knotty Pine - Bar-B-Que Joint that everyone loves. Charles Page Blvd @ 33rd West Ave.
Baxter's Grill - Great burgers and sandwiches. Downtown, adjacent to the Doubletree and the Tulsa Convention Center.
McNellies Public House - Pub that serves good food. If you like beer, this is the place to go. In Tulsa's downtown Brady District. 1st and Detroit.
McGill's - A most awesome steak is served here. 21st & Utica, Bank of America Bldg.
Dalesandro's - My favorite Italian place. Located in a trendy party spot at 18th and Boston.
Polo Grill - Over 22,000 bottles of wine - need we say more. OK, awesome dining included. Located on the east side of Utica Square Shopping Center.
 Minor Emergencies-
 A bad thing could happen when you least expect it. If dialing 911, be sure and tell the operator you are in Osage County. You can find the St. John Urgent Care, a minor emergency clinic ran by Tulsa's St. John Hospital, at 402 W. Morrow Road, Sand Springs. It is 2 blocks south of US Hwy 412 on Hwy 97. (southwest corner of Morrow Road & Hwy 97) It is inside the OMNI Medical Group Building. Phone: 918-245-1119.
Lets Shop!
Utica Square - Old School Shopping Center that predates "the mall" Located at 21st and Utica, in the middle of Tulsa nicest "old oil money" neigborhoods. Includes many on of a kind stores and places to eat.
Cherry Street - as it is called - is 15th street between Utica and Peoria Avenues. Another bunch of one of a kind shops.
Find more stuff like the Bass Pro Shop, more malls, and other neat stuff at Visit Tulsa
 
Entertainment -
Be sure to check the coming events for the venues below:
Tulsa Performing Arts Center - Symphony, Opera, Ballet, Broadway. Tulsa is actually very cultured in these areas and the PAC has a excellent nationwide reputation for having excellent facilities and knowledgable audiences.
Cain's Ballroom - From Bob Wills to the Sex Pistols, over seventy years of musical history graces Cain's. Worth the trip just to say you've been there.
The Oklahoma Aquarium is in Jenks, Oklahoma. Besides the native and exotic fish, they have the coolest fishing equipment museum you'll ever see.
History-
Windycrest is in the middle of an ancient forest. Check it out. There are thousands of 200 to 400 year old trees right above our sailing area.
Outlaws loved this place. From the Daltons to Pretty Boy Floyd, they all hung in the rugged hills of Oklahoma. Osage county northwest of Tulsa, very popular!
Did you know there are over 550 plugged oil wells under Keystone Lake?
While there are no indian reservations in Oklahoma, over sixty tribes have been assigned lands in "the nations". Visit the Osage The casino is a mile or so north of Hwy 412 on 129th W. Ave.