Mount Scott Summit
Mount Scott rises to 2,464 feet in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge southwest of Lawton. A three-mile paved spur road spirals to the granite summit, where unobstructed 360-degree views sweep across prairie, wildlife refuge, and the medicine-park lakes below. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service manages the road, which is open year-round to vehicles including motorcycles. Free-roaming bison, longhorn cattle, and Rocky Mountain elk are routinely spotted along the approach.
Mount Scott rises to 2,464 feet in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The granite the mountain is built from is ancient — the Wichita Mountains themselves are roughly 500 million years old — and that age shows in the rounded, weathered domes and boulder fields visible from the road and summit. The Comanche name for the peak, Pisaroya, translates simply as "Big Mountain," which still fits.
The three-mile paved road winds from the base to the summit with several scenic pullouts along the way and a parking area at the top. The road has steep grades, sharp turns, and can be exposed to heavy crosswinds — worth knowing before you go. From the summit, the panorama takes in granite domes to the west, the refuge prairie below, lakes to the south and east, and the plains stretching out toward Lawton. The refuge below supports free-roaming bison, Texas longhorn cattle, and Rocky Mountain elk — all routinely visible along the approach road. The road is open year-round, and there is no fee to ride it.
One of the few places in Oklahoma where you ride to the summit of a proper peak — the spiraling three-mile paved road is fun in its own right, and the 360-degree view of the refuge prairie from the top is genuinely stunning. Bison sightings on the approach are common enough to expect, not hope for.
Shot by the riders who've run it.
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