Grove is a small town on the northeast shore of Grand Lake o' the Cherokees, in Delaware County, Oklahoma. Founded as a stop on the Kansas City Southern Railway in the 1890s, it now lives off the lake — boating, fishing, retirees, and weekend visitors from Tulsa and Kansas City — and has a population of around 7,000.
The town's standout sight is Har-Ber Village, a sprawling open-air museum of antiques and reconstructed pioneer buildings on the lake shore, assembled by trucking-company founders Harvey and Bernice Jones. Nearby Lendonwood Gardens holds one of the largest rhododendron collections in the central United States — striking to find in eastern Oklahoma. The Corey House, a restored 1907 hotel on Main Street, is the best survivor of the original downtown.
Most visitors come for the lake itself. There are marinas, boat ramps, and a swimming beach at Honey Creek State Park just south of town, and the southern half of Grand Lake is open enough to support sailing. Six miles east, in the unincorporated community of Cayuga, stands the small stone Splitlog Church — built in 1896 by a wealthy Wyandot entrepreneur and now one of the few intact pieces of Wyandot heritage in the region.
Grove is at its best from late spring through early autumn, when the lake is warm and the gardens are in bloom. In winter the town is quiet and many of the lakeside businesses are closed.