Hotels Near Chesapeake Energy Arena in OKC
Oklahoma City's Chesapeake Energy Arena is home to the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder and plays host to other sporting events and world-class entertainment year-round, including major concerts and family shows. No matter your entertainment choice, Hotels-Rates can help you find the best-fitting hotel for you at the best price near Chesapeake Energy Arena.
Our extensive database reveals there are 55 hotels in Oklahoma City within 5 miles of Chesapeake Energy Arena and the neighboring Cox Convention Center, with rooms and suites and rates starting at $46. We also found 13 hotels in Oklahoma City within 1 mile of Chesapeake Energy Arena, with rates starting at $98.
Chesapeake Energy Arena is at 100 W. Reno Ave., conveniently located just off Interstate 40 in downtown Oklahoma City. A hotel room near Chesapeake Energy Arena is also near Downtown OKC's City Center and the Bricktown entertainment district.
Just across the street from the arena, the Myriad Botanical Gardens is a 15-acre escape into ornamental gardens, the Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory, a children's garden and playground, the Great Lawn, a lake, an off-leash dog park, water features and walking and jogging paths. There's also a series of free Sunday night concerts each summer.
Bricktown, just east of downtown proper, is a former warehouse district now densely packed with restaurants, bars, retail shops, public art, museums (including the American Banjo Museum), galleries, family-friendly attractions, and even an urban beach. Follow the Bricktown Riverwalk to catch the Bricktown Water Taxi for tours and dinner cruises along the Bricktown Canal. The OKC Dodgers, a Triple A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, play at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.
Oklahoma City Historic Attractions Near Chesapeake Energy Arena
Oklahoma City is the state capital and an example of Western culture gone metropolitan. It's where the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and the world's largest public collection of glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art are both at home.
Visitors can learn Oklahoma's story at the Oklahoma State Capitol and nearby History Center in Downtown OKC. Nearby, ponder the impact of violence and the comfort, strength, peace, hope and serenity that can follow at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.
The Milk Bottle Grocery, a grocery building with a large metal milk bottle atop its roof, is a more whimsical historic attraction on OKC's original Route 66 corridor and on the National Register of Historic Places. Find it in the middle of the road at 2426 N. Classen Boulevard.
Speaking of whimsy, a 2008 eBay purchase of a Santa Monica Pier icon put the Wheeler Ferris Wheel in a park on the south shore of the Oklahoma River just west of downtown. Today, rides on the 100-foot wheel offer amazing views of the skyline and OKC's famously beautiful sunsets.
In northeast Oklahoma City off of Interstate 35, the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden covers 119 acres and is home to more than 1,900 animals. The zoo's Sanctuary Asia enlarged the Asian elephant herd's existing habitat to include red pandas, Indian rhinos, langurs, Komodo dragons, Tanuki (raccoon dogs) and cassowary birds. The expansion also included a two-story restaurant with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the elephant, rhino and Komodo dragon habitats, plus a splash zone in the courtyard for children.
The Zoo Amphitheatre located south of the zoo at the corner of Martin Luther King and Meyers, presents a variety of concerts and other shows in season.
Just 10 minutes via I-35 South from the zoo, the Lost Lakes Entertainment Complex offers amphitheater concerts and festivals alongside the excitement of a waterpark featuring waterslides, cable wakeboarding and floating obstacle courses on three lakes.
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Oklahoma City is a thriving city and metropolitan area with plenty for visitors to see and do. You can find a hotel near Chesapeake Energy Arena through Hotels-Rates that best fits your needs for comfort, convenience and price. Whether you're headed to OKC for a basketball game, concert, business or for fun in an OK destination, click through for a Hotels-Rates deal now.