Arbuckle Mountains
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![Travertine Creek, in the Chickasaw National Recreation Area, located in the foothills of the Arbuckles near Sulphur.](/Images/godic/202412/21/Arbuckle_mts1044.jpg")
![A field of flowers in the Arbuckle foothills](/Images/godic/202412/21/Arbuckle_fence1044.jpg")
The Arbuckle Mountains are an ancient mountain range in south-central Oklahoma in the United States. They lie in Murray, Carter, Pontotoc, and Johnston counties. The granite rocks of the Arbuckles date back to the Precambrian 'Era' some 1.4 billion years ago which were overlain by rhyolites during the Cambrian Period. The range reaches a height of 1,412 feet above sea level. According to the U.S. Geological Service (USGS):