Off Interstate 40 in western Oklahoma, the Best Western Plus Executive Residency Elk City, Elk City, Oklahoma, is built for business and extended stays, with spacious rooms and suites, kitchenettes in most, an outdoor heated pool, a shaded patio and grilling area, guest laundry, a sundry shop, and a full breakfast buffet.
The setting suits a road-trip night or a longer stay, well placed between Amarillo and Oklahoma City for travelers crossing the plains. The patio and pool make an easy place to unwind after a day on the road.
Elk City grew up as a cattle and wheat town on old Route 66, and it keeps that history at the National Route 66 Museum and the pioneer cabins and one-room schoolhouse of the Old Town Museum, set on the rolling shortgrass plains of western Oklahoma where the Mother Road runs west toward the Texas line. At sunset, the prairie stretches flat and golden under an enormous Oklahoma sky.