Relocating to Tulsa? Learn Tulsa’s Highway System!
Relocating to Tulsa or any city can seem like a daunting task because you don’t know the neighborhoods, what your commute to work will be like or what amenities will be close by. It’s great if you can make multiple trips to Tulsa to shop for a home, but if you only have one opportunity to shop, you need to learn a lot online.
Tulsa has a fabulous expressway system. Highways 75 and 169 are fairly parallel to each other and are north/south. Highways 51 and Interstate 44 (also known as Skelly Bypass) are east/west, but are not parallel. So, depending on where you are going, if you live in south Tulsa and want to drive downtown, you may take Hwy 169 north to Highway 51 (also known as the Broken Arrow or BA Expressway), then drive west to your destination.
If you live in the Jenks area and are headed downtown, you would travel Hwy 75 north. If you lived in Owasso, you would take Hwy 169 south to I-244 (also known as the Crosstown Expressway) and travel west to your destination.
What you need to communicate to your Tulsa Realtor are the criteria that is most important to you in a home – space, size, condition, school districts, proximity to golf courses, shopping, etc. If you plan to travel to work at 7:00am, the commute is probably going to be easy regardless of which area you travel. However, if you plan to work 8:00-5:00, you’ll want to plan your route carefully.
Relocating to Tulsa? Learn Tulsa’s Highway System!
Several bedroom communities outside of Tulsa proper are good options – including Owasso, Collinsville, Sand Springs, Sapulpa, Jenks, Bixby and Broken Arrow – depending on how large of a home you desire or possible acreage desired.
Obviously your price range is going to have a great impact on options available, so please speak to a Lender before you begin to shop. Tulsa midtown homes are higher priced per square foot than outlying areas and many of our garages are detached. If you want to live in midtown Tulsa, you’re going to have to make some compromises.
The custom searches a Tulsa Realtor can set up are awesome and once set up, we can communicate via your web portal – making notes as to which are busy streets and how the commute from that house would be.
And here are some Tulsa proper driving directions, explaining how our street grid system works!
If you are relocating to Tulsa, give me a call and we’ll talk about your situation. Plan a trip to visit – I’d love to give you a tour!
