SperlingViews - Skiatook, Oklahoma

I moved here in 1980 at 12 years old....I finished growing up here and raised my chldren here....I am now 40 and cant belive how this perfect all American town has crumbled into a drug scene....the only thing we are missing are the gangs....dont let the local politians fool you into thinking this is a great place to raise a family...they sweep alot of drugs and crime under the rug to try and keep the towns status...my husband and I still have one child left in school and we are searching towns across American to move to and finishing raising our kids....Skiatook used to be a perfect place for families...what has happened is terribly sad...[read more...]

I have lived in this area since 1982. I was a teenager here and then raised my kids here....this town has become infested with meth,...meth labs....and low quality people.....the high school seems to promote with homosexuality is the new "in" thing...with students making sex videos of themselves and passing it around for all to see....this certainly is not the town I grew up in....[read more...]

The lake here is beautiful- the cleanest in the extended Tulsa metro area. The town is rather short on amenities, but the people are very nice. There is a super Walmart here and an eye doctor, a real estate office, an O'Reilly's auto parts store, a handful of restaurants, a couple of doctor's offices, and probably about one or two of anything you might need. This is certainly not big city living, but Tulsa is about 45 minutes away if you need anything. We live up on a hill overlooking the lake and the valley. It is covered with tough oak trees and little other vegetation. We do have the most remarkable sunrises and just breath-taking sunsets. The sky at night is ablaze with stars. Skiatook is the nicest town we could afford to live in close to my husband's work place. If you don't mind ice storms and tornadoes, and you like rural and have a good rough-water boat, Skiatook is the place for you.[read more...]