About OKC

The 2003 Nationals Contest and Vendors rooms will be
located in the newly renovated Cox Convention Center,
located immediately accross from the Westin Hotel. With a
$50 million dollar facelift the Cox Center has added 105,000
sq.ft. including 30,000 sq.ft. of meeting room space, more
than doubling the previously available space. With high
ceilings, elegant chandeliers and wide expanses of glass
overlooking

Oklahoma and Oklahoma City have a fascinating history that spans from the Five
Civilized Tribes, through the Civil War, countless cattle drives, the Great Land Run of
1889, the oil boom all the way to the present. Just a little over a century ago Oklahoma
City was a grass-and-timbered land of gently rolling hills flattening out into prairie on
the way westward. Now as the third largest U.S. city in land area, OKC covers over 625
square miles of America's heartland with a population of over 1 million in the
metropolitan and surrounding areas. From dinosaurs to the space program, Oklahoma
City offers something for everyone.

the scenic Oklahoma City skyline. The Cox Center is definitely
the jewel of downtown and one of the premier convention
facilites in the the region.

The newly revamped Bricktown trolley makes stops at the
hotel and Cox Center as well as other areas of interest in the
downtown area. Modeled after the bricktown districts Dallas

and San Antonio, you can find restaurants for any taste, catch a baseball game, listen to
live music, or ride one of the water taxis on the new canal, all within walking distance
(and I mean REAL walking distance) of the convention. Just check out the Bricktown
OKC website with all of the latest news and information on what's happening in the
most happening spot in the city.