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October 3, 2011 - There is much construction going on inside the Tulsa city limits currently that may be part of your route as you drive toward Sand Springs (there is no construction around Sand Springs). These maps do not reflect current detours or closed portions of interstates. Please consider how construction may affect you as you plan your route. Thanks.
Please click the PDF Map Below to View, Print and Download to your Smart Phone or Computer PDF Map is 396 KB - Shows ONLY ESSENTIAL DETAIL (pertaining to Firey Trails) and expressways in the Tulsa area. Can be printed in color or B&W. Most of the non-essential detail has been removed.
If you do want the maps showing ALL DETAIL and not just ESSENTIAL DETAIL, here are links to these also. Thanks. We have 3 reflective metal signs that point the way and show remaining mileage at the most important turns on the 41st Street Route. The first is posted just west of Discoveryland at the Coyote Trail / 41st Street fork. We recommend the 41st Street fully paved route over the 71st Street-Dirt Road route. Note About PDF Map Above: We'd like to stress to please print and follow the PDF maps provided (best printed in color). We have marked up a very detailed photo of an atlas map. The route you should go is highlighted on the screen to show you how to highlight a printed copy. (One Note: When you "Mapquest" our street number it directs you west from Highway 97 on 61st but fails to tell you that the road does not go through to our address. 61st temporarily ends at 129th W. Avenue and again at 161st and doesn't resume again (going west) until the 19800 block.)
From Highway 97 in Prattville (South Sand Springs), turn west at the light onto 41st Street. Continue west on 41st out of Prattville. Approximately 5 miles out of town you will see the Discoveryland billboard on the north side of 41st. The road will then begin to curve as 41st temporarily ends and turns into Coyote Trail. There is a Firey Trails sign at the curve where the roads intersect. You are now on Coyote Trail-Continue west to 209 W. Avenue. There a second Firey Trails sign at this point. Turn south (left) onto 209. Go 1.9 miles and turn left onto 61st Street (where you'll see the final Firey Trails sign). The 61st turnoff is right before a concrete bridge over creek. On 61st you will pass Rock Creek Church on the right and 204 W. Ave. on the left. (Across from 204 on the right, you will see another Firey driveway of another member of the family at 20401-this is new-DO NOT TURN HERE.) Continue east toward 201 W. Avenue which is on the left. On the right, cattycornered across the street, you will see our well marked mailbox, wrought iron gate and fence with brick columns (along with an FT sign to drive on.) (Do not turn in here-this is an old entrance and is our personal driveway.) Instead continue driving east only 1/10th of a mile past our gate. (The blacktop ends just at our gate so you will be driving on gravel.) The gravel road continues straight and bends back to the southeast (to the right). BEFORE this bend you will see our large sign and entrance on the right hand side of the road. This entrance and drive can accommodate busses in addition to regular vehicles. Turn in and you will see the lighted parking area on your left. For any large bus, there is a roomy area on down the drive for a bus to turn in and back around.
Event Coordinator - PLEASE READ & ADVISE YOUR GROUP OF THE ROUTE INFORMATION BELOW Since the issue below still comes up on a regular basis (to our continued frustration), we have added extra text for extra emphasis. Please read our "Wordy" but "Worthy" Advice on the Best & Simplest Route
If traveling from the Creek or Turner Turnpikes at Sapulpa, you will be tempted to take the 71st Street short-cut that you will come to first (according to what all the gadgets will say) but it will be worth your while to pass it up and go on north 3 miles to the better 41st route at South Sand Springs instead and then head west toward Firey Trails. We have a lesser "Back Roads" route mapped out just because some computer based mapping sites and GPS navigational programs will compute that this is the best route and tell you to go this way-especially if coming from the Creek/Turner Turnpike in Sapulpa. The back roads route is slightly shorter only by two or three minutes, but this definitely does not make it the best route overall. Time and time again, no matter how much we go overboard in informing on the website, unsuspecting visitors end up going the more difficult way and 10 times out of 10, they tell us they haven't been on our website to be adequately educated and warned about the vast difference in routes. Google Maps, GPS and Mapquest does not take everything into account when computing what they show is the best route to take. Let's just say, all these technological devices are full of high tech information but don't input any common sense into the equation when computing their directions. What the high tech devices will not compute is first of all, 71st Street is absolutely nothing like 41st Street. Of course, the locals know this but to out-of-towners reading a map (or MapQuest for that matter), one street is just like another. Although 71st has a blacktop surface, it is a lesser and narrower unlined "side street type" country road with some potholes and the westward bound street finally turns into an even lesser meandering dirt road at 177th - . (Whereas 41st is a main road in the area and main cross street with traffic signals and is a lined highway going west and east through Sand Springs.) Sometimes MapQuest says to take the 71st route and then other complicated twist and turns (to avoid taking the dirt road up ahead.) But if you do not turn off, 71st Street turns into a 2.3 mile stretch of an late 1800's ancient, narrow and winding dirt and gravel road (177th) that winds along Rock Creek and will make any out-of-towner feel they've started their Firey Trails adventure before they ever arrive (especially after dark). (There is "no charge" for this unintentional part of the FT experience, by the way.) Also if you have a nice car, you probably don't want little bits of road gravel flying up against your nice paint job. Also, the dirt portion of the road is only slightly wider than a bus in places, so we definitely do not encourage any larger vehicle coming this way (plus the turn in cannot be made this way with a larger vehicle.) We have a couple lesser Firey Trails signs on the back roads and the cross streets are marked with small street signs (most of the time-including the small 71st Street sign on Highway 97) but these street signs can be very challenging to see after dark. We cannot stress enough that you'll be much more confident of your route if you choose what we call the "High Road" which is the well marked, fully paved and lined, 41st Street highway route - which include three large metal reflective Firey Trails signs for the final 3.5 miles. These large reflective signs begin at the 41st Street/Coyote Trail fork just slightly west of the large Discoveryland billboard on the north side of 41st a little over 5 miles from the 41st Street/Highway 97 (Quik Trip) Junction in south Sand Springs. They show direction arrows and remaining mileage to Firey Trails. Say - When you get here , ask us what we REALLY think - about the route we think you ought to take - if you can't figure it out by now! (Ha Ha) Hopefully, we've convinced you.
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If
you want to be adventurous and take the "back road's", the most direct route is
going west on 71st from Hwy 97. We have posted three reflective signs - the
first just after turning west on 71st, one at the beginning of the dirt road
that jogs northwest and the last small sign at our Firey Trails gate. The first
4 miles of 71st route are paved and straight and include 2 stop signs (145th &
161st) and a very short new concrete bridge bridge just west of the stop sign at
145th. Approximately 1.5 miles
after 161st, 71st ends and becomes a narrow dirt and gravel road (but for the
most part, smooth) the last 2.3 miles that jogs northwest and winds alongside
the creek between 71st and 61st. (The bend at the end of 71st is 177th).
Busses should be warned about going this route because they cannot make the
Firey Trails turn-in from the last curve on the dirt road without turning around
1/10th of a mile down the street at 201st - catty cornered from our main drive.
When the dirt road straightens out again (at our Firey Trails drive) you have
reached 61st Street. We have marked the 71st Street / back roads route on both
maps. We do highly recommend the fully paved 41st street route over the
alternative. The 71st / back roads route is somewhat shorter distance if
traveling from the Turner/Creek turnpike exit at Sapulpa so many visitors choose
to come this way. Just want to educate you about the pros and cons of both
routes.
