The Preserve Journal On the Road at the Cherokee Trading Post

Want to see America close up?  Get in your car and travel.  Our travels to the West turned up a few interesting stories.  From time to time we'll pass along some some notes and anecdotes.

Not far  from Shawnee, Oklahoma on Interstate 40 you will begin to see road signs for the Cherokee Trading Post.  Now you couldn't be blamed for thinking "just another shop for tourists looking for peace pipes and feathers" but you would be wrong.

The Cherokee Trading Post contains some of the highest quality products usually associated with native Americans.  Leather goods, blankets, carvings, beautifully framed paintings of the old west, superb jewelry, traditional wind instruments and so much more.

There is a restaurant on the grounds but we didn't have time to give it a try.  The Trading  Post also has a website for online ordering.

So if you are driving through Oklahoma on 40 and see the signs for the Cherokee Trading Post, pull off the exit and spend some time there.  You won't leave empty handed.  We didn't.