Yukon, Oklahoma

Everything Yukon is known for

6 songs mention this city 3 artists from here

Yukon, Oklahoma, a city known for its rich Czech heritage and as a stop along historic Route 66, also has connections to the music world. The city is home to country artists Cody Canada and Cross Canadian Ragweed, with Cross Canadian Ragweed's founding member Grady Cross establishing Grady's 66 Pub, a live music venue in Yukon. Five songs in our collection mention Yukon, including "YUKON" by Justin Bieber and "Slow Dance in a Parking Lot" by Jordan Davis.

The city actively embraces music with events like Rock the Route, a free concert event celebrating Route 66, and the summer Concerts in the Park series at Chisholm Trail Park. Grady's 66 Pub, owned by Grady Cross, is a notable venue in Yukon that features live music, catering predominantly to the Texas/Red Dirt music scene.

Music in Yukon

Songs About Yukon

YUKON
Justin Bieber
80%
"Song about Yukon"
Yukon (In the City You Used to Drive a Yukon Cover Remix)
Dj Rehan
80%
"Song about Yukon"
Yukon Song
The Beatlesøns
80%
"Song about Yukon"
Yukon (Remix)
MADAX
80%
"Song about Yukon"
Red Dirt Girl
Bo Phillips Band
5%
"wishin' Ragweed was still around"
Slow Dance in a Parking Lot
Jordan Davis
5%
"radio singing a little Garth Brooks"

Artists From Yukon

C
Cody Canada
country Pop: 60
C
Cross Canadian Ragweed
country Pop: 50
J
J.D. Graham
americana Pop: 16

Rivers & Roads in Song near Yukon

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Yukon.

U.S. Route 66 17 songs Highway I 40 20 songs Interstate 44 5 songs Canadian River 7 songs Interstate 35 42 songs Cimarron River 8 songs

History of Yukon

The ethics of storm chasing RoadyGoat

2013

Just south of El Reno, Oklahoma, on May 31, 2013, the widest tornado ever recorded ground across the prairie, about 2.6 miles wide at its peak. It turned suddenly, ballooned in seconds, and hid inside heavy rain. Among the eight people killed were Tim Samaras, 55, a respected researcher who founded the TWISTEX project, his 24-year-old son Paul, and teammate Carl Young, 45. They were the first scientific storm researchers ever killed by a tornado. Their work was careful; the storm was not. That day is why chasers argue about ethics out here. Crowded roads can block the people fleeing for their lives. Bumper-to-bumper "chaser convergence" slows first responders. And cameras pointed at someone's worst moment cross a line. The good ones leave room, leave fast, and remember that a storm is never owed an audience.

11.0 mi away

Mobile radar trucks RoadyGoat

2013

Out here near El Reno, Oklahoma, on May 31, 2013, the widest tornado ever recorded tore across the open country, roughly 2.6 miles wide at its peak. The reason we know just how monstrous it was comes down to radar trucks. Fixed radar towers sit far away, and the beam climbs higher the farther it travels, so it misses the violent winds spinning near the ground. So researchers built mobile radar, dishes bolted onto trucks, the Doppler on Wheels among them, that drive close to the storm to sample those low-level winds directly. Near El Reno, mobile radar clocked winds well over 200 mph inside small, fast sub-vortices whipping around the main funnel. That kind of close, fast scanning is how scientists pinpoint a tornado's true width and ferocity, turning a chaotic gray wall into hard numbers we can study.

11.0 mi away

The first tornado on radar RoadyGoat

1953

On May 24, 1973, a violent tornado tore into Union City, Oklahoma, killing two people. But this storm changed history in another way. Just down the road, researchers at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman pointed an experimental Doppler radar at the funnel and watched the whole thing, start to finish. It was the first tornado ever observed by Doppler. In the data they spotted a tight knot of spinning wind, a fingerprint later named the tornado vortex signature, the very pattern Doppler radars still hunt for today. The idea of catching a twister on a screen went back further, to April 9, 1953, when a technician near Champaign, Illinois filmed a curling hook echo, the first hook on record. Two flat prairie towns, twenty years apart, and the reason your phone buzzes with a warning before the sky turns.

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Oklahoma City National Memorial

1995

Memorial to the 168 people killed in the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.

14.0 mi away

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

1955

Founded in 1955, this Oklahoma City museum houses one of the finest collections of Western art and artifacts in the world.

15.8 mi away

Things to Do in Yukon

historical 14.0 mi away
Oklahoma City National Memorial

168 empty chairs for the 168 lives lost in the 1995 bombing. Profoundly moving.
food 13.9 mi away
Cattlemen's Steakhouse

Oklahoma City's Stockyards icon since 1910. Won in a dice game. Presidents and cowboys eat the same T-bone at the same counter.
quirky 24.6 mi away
POPS on Route 66

A 66-foot soda bottle and 700+ varieties of pop on Route 66. LED lights at night.
historical 13.5 mi away
Paseo Arts District

Oklahoma City's walkable arts neighborhood. Galleries studios and the best First Friday in the state.

Everything Near Yukon

277 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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