Quartz Mountain is located in southwest Oklahoma. It is the namesake of Quartz Mountain Nature Park and its eastern flank is encolosed by the park boundaries. The park is open to the public year round for rock climbing, hiking, boating, camping, nature observation and photography, and environmental education and interpretation. The mountain overlooks scenic Lake Altus.
Famous quotes containing the word mountain:
“The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel,
And the former called the latter “Little Prig”;”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)