Rob

By Rob Houston Director, Visit Enid A Facebook post caught my eye earlier this week. It came from the Railroad Museum of Oklahoma, one of Enid's inviting tourism attractions. The museum was recently privileged to accept numerous boxes of historical material from the estate of the late Dan L. Harris. Thanks to his daughter and son-in-law, Allison and Lynn Angleton, along with Allison's brothers Greg Harris and Kyle Harris, extensive documentation has been donated providing a detailed account of the formation of the Railroad Museum of Oklahoma, initially known as the Enid Model Railroad and Historical Association which began in 1974. [...]

By Rob Houston Director, Visit Enid Back in 2018, I traveled to Foley, Alabama to tour their new sports complex. This was part of an initiative by the Enid First team to explore communities with successful programs that Enid wanted to emulate. Foley, population 17,000, sits just 10 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico and is a hearty recipient of all of those beach tourism dollars rolling in. The BP Oil Spill in 2010 brought beach tourism to a crashing halt. Foley city leaders along with cities up and down the coast wondered how they would replace all that lost [...]

Meetings By: Taylor Blasier, Enid Travel Advocate As a host mom welcoming Pauli, an exchange student from Germany, into our Enid, Oklahoma home, I was eager to share the charm of our “big” small town with her. However, I couldn't help but wonder what her initial thoughts would be upon arrival. Would she find it too quiet? She's from Berlin, so that’s a population of about 3.6 million to our 60,000. But as Pauli settled in and we opened her eyes to what all Enid had to offer, her perspective began to shift in more ways than one. "I [...]