Spent Sunday kayaking the Canadian River through the Stinchcomb Wildlife Preserve in west Oklahoma City with my friend Laurie, who is now sold on buying her own kayak. The river passes through the preserve on its way to Lake Overholser downstream.
The river current provides a nice float a couple of miles upstream from the put in at the 39th Street (Old Route 66) bridge in Bethany. At that point you’re away from the sounds of traffic and you feel as if you’re in wilderness.
Only downside I experienced was the fact I was dumb and didn’t liberally adminster the sun screen. Well, that and we did this in the heat of the day. That zapped the strength from my old body and left me with a nice farmer’s tan (sunburn).
The water was clean and cool. There were probably a dozen or more kayakers and one canoe group on the river. Most were floating downstream from Yukon. It’s hard to imagine such a fairly remote place lies within the borders of Oklahoma City.
