Most of what brings travellers to Lawton is just outside the city. The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, twenty minutes northwest, is the main draw: 59,000 acres of granite peaks, prairie, free-roaming bison, and elk, with a drivable road up Mount Scott for views over half of southwest Oklahoma.
In town itself, Fort Sill National Historic Landmark covers the U.S. Army's role on the southern plains from the Indian Wars to the present. The Museum of the Great Plains tells a wider story, with a strong section on the great Comanche horse culture. The Comanche National Museum and Cultural Center, run by the tribe, gives the same story from the other side.
Lawton's downtown is modest — a stretch of mid-century commercial buildings along C Avenue, a handful of historic houses, and the 1922 Carnegie Library. The bigger weekend draws are out at the refuge or at the small art-stone village of Medicine Park nearby.