Been to Boise City many times and I love it out there. In fact me and my grandpa just drove to every county seat in Oklahoma and alternated running a mile in each. I was fortunate to run in Boise City and it’s a neat little town.

It is 600 miles to drive from Boise City to Idabel, OK on Oklahoma State Highway 3 and never leave Oklahoma. Also, Cimarron County is the only US county that borders 4 states.

Boise City, has an amazing history. It's existence was to be. Beautiful area and exciting area to enjoy spend ing time in. Thanks John for finding this area of great interest.

Great video! My wife and I drove through there two years ago when we moved to Oklahoma. I’ve wanted to go back to explore the area more and your video inspires me to make the effort. If you go through Guymon, stop at Naifeh’s Steak House. One of the best steaks I’ve had and the prices are very reasonable.

John, another great video with a tremendous personal touch. On the southeast corner of the Square approximately where the caboose is, stood the very last Selective Service Office that I have ever seen. There is a great little cafe on the north side of US 56 near the Townsman Motel. Speaking of the motel, I woke up one morning 38 years ago to find 4" of snow inside of the room by the door. The crack wasn't that big, the wind was horrific.

The drone shot of the town circle is pretty cool.

Excellent. One thing about the panhandle of Oklahoma, the wind seldom stops, and it can really get to woofing out there.

That circle threw me off first time I drove through there. Lol !! Ended up on a dirt road to Kenton. Actually glad it did, great scenic drive. Thank you for all your videos.

Just west of Boise City on US 412 A couple of miles from the New Mexico state line is the town of Felt. Felt OK. Love the ending

To think it has survived not only the dust bowl, but also a friendly fire bombing, sort of distinguishes this town from most. I absolutely love the light posts they have near the downtown. Keep the videos coming Coach!

Thank you, Jon. I remember driving from Amarillo to Liberal KS to pick up a load of swinging meat about 50 years ago and Boise City was in between. It seems like not much has changed. I wish these small cities could somehow rebound to former glory. GO SHOCKERS!

❤️ thanks for doing this video. I know I appreciate your kind words towards us out here in No Mans Land.

So sad that our small towns are disappearing.

Hey Coach. Looks o.k. out there.I like drone @ 5 minute mark. The old tarmac looks pretty good still.Keep on truckin.

Wow I still can't get my head around such a small place being called a city, but it is! Like you said John an authentic place, and you see it's face, warts and all! Interesting both geographically and historically. Thanks John, a nice little video.

I came across your channel several days ago and enjoyed the two videos I've seen so far! I grew up in KS (about an hour north of Wichita), so towns like Boise City bring back some fond memories. Thank you 🙂

All of your videos holds my interest. Well thought out and presented. Thank you!👍

Thank you for the video. I've never seen anything about Boise City. The whole place is sort of a museum without being a ghost town.

Tell me you stopped and got beef jerky at No Nans Land, nicest people and best jerky! Beautiful part of our state. ❤

Used to drive a truck thru there weekly going from Ardmore to Denver....town "square" was vibrant and busy then....then a bypass was put in...you can see the results!

Kenton, OK is the only town in OK in the mountain time zone.

The center of the dust bowl was the Oklahoma panhandle, where the dust bowl started. I notice the Kansas State power cat on the water tower. Another great video. Thanks.

That's incredible. The town was started by fraudulent means, yet, there it is, and it prospered. A lot of the buildings you videoed look to be in good condition, though some of them are worse for wear. And you toured the local airport. How cool is that! I can imagine that the elevation there is higher being so close to Colorado. What made you choose Cimarron County, OK to explore? I really curious how you choose your destinations; suggestions from viewers, throw a dart at a map? 😆 Great video as always, and I hope to learn more about Cimarron County in future videos.

NICE QUIET TOWN..THANKS COACH 😅

Good morning from northeastern oklahoma

I'm sorry you didn't get to go through the museum! It really is excellent and I look forward to travelling through that part of the country again.

We were impressed with the small town and the RV park was nice.

We stopped here to eat on the way to Taos last week and also on the way back home to Hutchinson as it was close to the midway point of the one-day drive. The Burger basket at the Bluebonnet Cafe was excellent and a good value. Tacos at Guera's very good as well & slightly pricier.

Thanks! Enjoy your videos John. Be safe out there.😊

Great video John! Lots of historical info. Never been to the area but definitely worth a visit

Rode through Boise City four summers ago. Came south on 385. I had been up looking for the site of Toonerville Colorado (only one old building left standing). In a very desolate and rural part of Oklahoma it was a oasis. Gassed up the Harley, found a bite to eat and headed off towards New Mexico. I did note they had a plethora of churches. . And I have to agree with the musical "Oklahoma, Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain". it was "sweeping" the whole time I rode thru the panhandle.

When I lived in Guymon I spent a lot of time in Boise City. I used to know the owner of the Boise City News

Thank you.

305 views in one hour- great! Only 109 likes- sad. Folks please hit that like button, and watch at least 30 seconds of the commercials. Of course subscribe if you haven't already. Doing these small actions help. Algorithm is so important in KZfaq, it keeps videoing to the front so to speak and helps determine payment for the video. Thank you dear for putting so much money, time and heart into making these videos. We travel through you, and forget our cares for a bit while we watch your excursions. I always enjoy the drone shots, you can really get perspective for the area. Of course your bloopers and animals are a great ending. 👍 Stay safe and GOD bless

LOVE the Oklahoma Panhandle. Shout out to Woodward, OK, the lil town with a HUGE heart: The ladies at the Subway will remember your favorite sandwich order, even if you only pass through 1-2x per year. The Rec. Center / pool is an AMAZING place to stop with your kids, & the non-profit thrift store on Old Main is completely & effectively run by developmentally challenged employees/owners. 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ Woodward is the best version of what America could be🎉🎉🎉!!!

Nice! Love the drone shots! Thanks

Great video. There's always a part of me that sees these small towns struggling to survive that wishes I could open a business there that brought jobs and money to invest back into community. I really hope the rise of remote work saves at least some of these towns.

Hi john thanks for the tour cool town i hope more people move back there . Cheers mate🇦🇺

Lots of dinosaur artifacts in the area. Clayton, NM has Dino tracks. Folsom Man was discovered in the area by George McJunckin (sp). Black Jack Ketchum also roamed this area. He was hanged in Clayton, NM and it was a gruesome hanging. Interesting history if you read about it.

Very interesting town. Thanks for sharing.

Loved this video! I hope you do a video over Felt, Oklahoma when you’re back in Cimarron county :)

I drive through the panhandle of OK several times a year. And in Boise City you truly feel you are in the middle of no where

It’s a shame that the museum was closed. It’s one of the most interesting museums I’ve been to. From dinosaurs to farming history, folk art and an impressive automobile collection. Great video though really enjoyed it.

It's so flat there you can watch your dog runaway for two weeks.

Too bad I didn’t know. My husband is on the board and he could have opened for you it’s a real jewel of a museum, including outbuildings like a one room school and a farmhouse. Hope you can come back. Cimmie, is a life sized sculpture of the apatosaurus the fossil hunter Cook took out near Kenton (NW) in 1930. 80% complete. Alongside the road to Kenton and Black Mesa Park is a cast bone over the pit it was dug out of and it’s right at the road. Vera Miles was born in the old hospital in 1930, her parents ranched towards Clayton.

Great video What a neat town. My dad been to guymon, ok I only been to eastern Oklahoma

Great video and never knew all that history about it. Always like passing through there. I have a trip planned sometime to stay there and then head West out of there into Northeastern New Mexico then up into Southeastern Colorado and back to Kansas. Not sure yet when I will do it.

I also love the rich history of small towns such as Boise City, Ok.❤❤

The pronunciation of this town took me by surprise. I expected it to rhyme with Boise, Idaho. Reminds me of how, near Gatlinburg, TN, the one mountain in the National Park, Mt. Conte, is pronounced Mount Le Cont by the locals😢.

people are nice out there seem real excited when visitors come in

Nice video 👍🏼 We were in Guymon, OK on 6/14/24 at a gas station. There was a guy in there that looked exactly like you.

going that way in July , no man’s land best beef jerky , interesting looking town!

I live in Tulsa and have never been to the Panhandle, but would love to go. The elevation there also is closer to the Rockies than it is to most other places in Oklahoma. The highest point in Oklahoma is also located in Cimarron County at 4900 feet or so with the Black Mesa.

This will be an interesting place to visit. The drone shots were gorgeous, especially the one at 5:00. Makes me imagine how incredible the view would be if someone had a house on the outskirts of town - it would never get old, and neither do your videos. Thank you for sharing all this with us! 😊 P.S., love that you showed the local airport.

Ground zero for the Dust Bowl. I could live there, Love it.😅 It looks like a dieing town, thousands of them in America 😢. Thanks for Sharing.

I'm not surprised there are so many comments on this one. You really captured the 'poetry' and essence of this place. We passed through Boise CIty a number of times though the last time was 2005. I remember a clothing shop on the circle at the time. One time we had lunch at the DQ and there happened to be a dead cattle dropped off outside the veterinarian's office next door. Be sure to check out Kenton, OK in the northwestern corner of the county - Oklahoma's only town in the mountain time zone

Born and raised here in Boise city

Great video information John😮

Very interesting town - I like the drone shots.

The Cimmaron heritage center makes the meals for Okietex BTW they work super hard too

Been there many times. My sister managed the supermarket there.

Thanks for the tour, never explored the strip

The first sheriff of Boise city had his horse stolen outside of the courthouse by an escapee . They caught up to him in a saloon in Felt and hung him. Shorty after that the women of felt wanted to rid the town of all the saloons, so they set them on fire but the wind kicked up burning the whole town to the ground. Of coarse they rebuilt the town minus any saloons. I used to live in Boise city and worked at the hospital and nursing home . On the side i used to sink graves at the cemetery for 50 bucks a grave. The death rate was steadily increasing when i lived there. The people dying were the ranchers and farmers that had been around forever . Then the by pass got the ok and in turn the town was slowly dying as well. Im surprised it's made it as far as it has.

Enjoy your videos I’m trying to make driving channel thanks for inspiration been watching for while

The last time I went through Boise City, it was still a traffic square and not yet a circle. That was probably 50 years ago when I was still a kid. We used to drive that way from the northeastern part of the Texas panhandle to get to Denver. Typical airport for the smaller towns in that area, too, just varies by size. Memories :)

New Braunfels, Texas, north of San Antonio also has a circle around their courthouse. New Braunfels is much bigger than Boise City. The fraud stores reminded me of real estate sales brochures I have seen in news articles. These brochures had pictures of green, very fertile looking land while trying to sell desert land in west Texas.

Great video John! Did you getaway from the tornados in Lincoln lol?!?!

Been there many time but only at the Loves and State weigh station😊😊

THE DINOSAUR MAY AT ONE TIME WAS AN SINCLAIR OIL ADVERTISEMENT AS IT WAS THEIR LOGO!

That’s a perfect ending, at the airport!

Great video!!! Probably my most favorite county in the state of Oklahoma because it is way out there, is the ONLY COUNTY in the USA that touches 4 other states, all the prehistoric & human history, great scenery!! Have been through that town numerous times while en route to Black Mesa Nature Preserve & Black Mesa State Park. The state park really is way out there in NO WHERE, but well worth the visit - beautiful park. While driving to the Nature Preserve, there is a roadside rest stop with a concrete replica of a DINOSAUR LEG BONE on display - just something to break up the monotony of the trip, pretty neat!! The Nature Preserve is home to the highest elevation point in the state of Oklahoma - Black Mesa. It is about a 4.5-mile hike to the highpoint marker - have made the hike about 5 times. Also, not too far from the parking lot of the Nature Preserve and if you know where to look, there are some DINOSAUR FOOTPROINTS along a creek bed. There used to be a sign indicating where the footprints are, but my last 2 trips out that way the sign was gone. After dorking around the Black Mesa area, I would head on over to Clayton, NM, and spend some time. There is an awesome DINOSAUR FOOTPRINT collection up at Clayton Lake State Park. IF you visit the state park, be aware of BEARS!! My last visit there about 6-years or so ago and there was a bear sighting, and the entire park was on warning. Where you park at for the dino footprints would be roughly .5-mile one-way hike (well worth it if interested in that stuff). Also, Clayton. NM is where the train robber Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum is buried - he had a gruesome death. The small town of Folsom, NM is not very far from Clayton, and you will bypass it if heading west towards Capulin Volcano National Site - another awesome spot to stop and visit. Folsom is where prehistoric ancestors known as FOLSOM MAN were discovered and the town used to have a small museum dedicated to that event. That part of OK/NM/CO there are lots of locations that have dino footprints. Some long hikes to get to them and most on private property (have made plenty of those hikes). South of La Junta, CO, is home to the largest site in North America where dinosaur footprints were discovered. About a 5-mile one-way hike just to visit them but well worth it.

Nice area although it looks kind of depressed. I think we all have wondered what would.... bring it back (2 to 3 thousand people, or more, interest to all but I'm rambling. Nice video, be good, be safe !!

The black mesa is one of my favorite places on earth. So peaceful and quiet. It’s just you and God out there. Cinnamon county is the least populated county in Oklahoma. A little stat for ya’ll.

Good trip! Interesting town. You should have made that bell ring. Just sayin. I’m looking forward to your next video.🙏❤️😎👍

very cool :)

Your videos are great but still think you need to hit Gueda Springs! Check out its past and compare it to what it is today!

Vera June Ralston was born in Boise City, Oklahoma, on August 23, 1929 to Thomas and Bernice (née Wyrick) Ralston. She had three older brothers. She grew up first in Pratt, Kansas, and later lived in Wichita, where she worked nights as a Western Union operator-typist and graduated from Wichita North High School in 1947. She was crowned Miss Kansas in 1948 and was the third runner-up in the Miss America contest. She relocated to Los Angeles and changed her last name to Miles and the rest is history. ~ Wikipedia. Coach, for a college graduate your research skills are average at best. Jus playin! 😉Just thought I would help you out a little. Be good and safe Coach on that long, endless highway! 🙏

Wow that's Crazy... 💣

i agree with all of John's commenters that this is another great video and most certainly worth watching. The comments about this being a beautiful area and a lovely town are very...generous. Boise City is perhaps a great place to be for some folks. But take a close look at the landscape. It is easy to see why Boise City was the very center of the Dust Bowl. Then (1930's) as now, there are no geographical impediments (such as hills, valleys even gentle rises) to deter the wind and save the soil. Nor are there trees, other than a rare thirsty looking yard tree. I can understand the comment about driving around the town circle and getting lost. There no landmarks (other than the sad old courthouse) to give you a guide as to where you are. Still, Boise City as a focus for one of john's videos is a treasure. A "beautiful area and exciting area to enjoy spending time in" may be very true for some folks. For others, driving through Boise City OK is depressing enough to make you cry. In any event, the panhandle of Oklahoma is an important place in America for one of John's wonderful videos.

North of BC on the river was found evidence of the early occupation by man, going back 12k years.

Was not the building in the circle seen in the movie " The Grapes of Wrath" as the Joads were leaving Oklahoma, driving out of the circle? I think I heard that somewhere.

We drive through there all the time to get to Colorado or anywhere in the NW

Looks like a lot of businesses have closed up, thats a shame

Railroad car, it was a Caboose!

Had more traffic through town until they extended the 287

Boise City never recovered job wise from the oil bust of the 80s

Why didt you put the pharmacy

Go to lyons kansas

my least fave of all the ones you've been to, didn't see a single coffee shop/restaurant or any retail biz that seemed to be running, especially for a a town over a thousand

Where are the people? Looks like some abandoned town right out of the Twilight zone

The Boise City Cemetery, established 1909. So what’d they do with the bodies of people that died before 1909?😂

Locals call it,"Boise Shitty".