It’s Okay to Ride to Okay, OK

Okay, let's go. But where? How about Okay, OK? 

Okay!

Why is this place called Okay, OK, though? And what is there? Is it okay for motorcyclists to visit?

Well, Okay wasn’t always Okay. The first European settler, French trader Joseph Bogy, arrived in this part of Oklahoma’s Three Forks region sometime around 1806, establishing a small trading post.

Yet, for a long time, the place had no official name (or at least no one wrote it down). The community’s first recorded name—Coretta—comes from 1891 after the nearby railroad switch.

Coretta became the name of the local post office, despite people also calling the town Falls City around the same time. In 1900, the post office changed its name to Rex and, in 1911, to North Muskogee.

Then, in 1915, the Oklahoma Auto Manufacturing Co. built a factory in town to manufacture O.K. Trucks-branded vehicles. The facility became so important to the local community that the town changed its name to Okay on October 18, 1919.

Got that? Okay, let’s move on.

An Exciting Wider Area

So, what can you find in Okay? I’ll be honest with you. There’s not a whole heck of a lot.

Okay is a peaceful 500-resident town with a grocery store, a post office, and not much else. Just north of town is the Backroad Vineyard, which offers wine tastings and has a gift shop and a wedding venue, if you’re looking to get hitched while on the road.

That said, you’ll find plenty to do in the nearby cities of Fort Gibson, Muskogee, and Wagoner, and the surrounding area.

The main visitor draw in this region is Fort Gibson Lake. Formed after the Fort Gibson Dam opened in 1949, it’s an excellent outdoor recreation location. Multiple campgrounds surround the lake, and you can engage in fishing, boating, swimming, hiking, and horseback riding to name just a few things.