Zach Top recently fit a trip to the OK Kids Korral into his schedule. Though the world tragically lost Toby Keith back in February of 2024, the music and the legacy he left behind will live on forever. Toby loved being a country music star, but he arguably loved giving back even more. Keith launched his foundation (The Toby Keith Foundation) in 2006, and through that and many other charitable acts, he was always able to utilize his platform to help those that were less fortunate. Around the same time that Toby Keith started his foundation in 2006, he decided that he wanted to provide cost-free housing for kids with cancer families. So he and his foundation got to work with the OK Kids Korral, which opened in 2013. The foundation’s website describes the facility as the following: “OK Kids Korral helps make life a little easier for children with cancer by providing a safe, convenient, and hopeful place for families to connect with each other and focus on the well-being of their child.” The cost-free housing can host 16 families at once, and provides them all with private bedrooms and shared living and dining areas. Since it’s designed for pediatric cancer patients, it also boasts indoor and outdoor play areas, along with many other fun features to give children an escape from their cancer treatments. It’s a truly wonderful place for families that are going through such a scary time of their lives. A modern artist that seems to be following in the big footprints left behind by the Big Dog Daddy is neotraditional country music star Zach Top. He’s currently out on his Cold Beer and Country Music Tour, and just a couple of weeks ago when he was in Oklahoma City for one of his concerts, Top took some time to visit the OK Kids Korral. In pictures that were posted by the Toby Keith Foundation, Zach Top can be seen talking and visiting with children that are staying at the facility, and it looks like he signed a cowboy hat or two while he was there as well. Hopefully Top helped provide some comfort to the families that are there while they collectively fight pediatric cancer. The OK Kids Korral was certainly appreciative of the rising country star stopping by: “We couldn’t be more thankful that Zach Top took time out of his busy schedule to visit children battling cancer at OK Kids Korral.” Zach Top is a class act. If you were wanting to know more about the OK Kids Korral, I thought it might be nice for you to hear from the Big Dog Daddy himself. This video below is from the facility’s grand opening in 2013. In it, Keith talks about how the cost-free-housing came to be, and the close-to-home cancer story involving his close friend and former guitarist, Scott Webb, that inspired he and his foundation to build the OK Kids Korral: “10 years ago when Scott and Linda lost their two-year-old, they came back from St. Jude’s in a last ditch effort to save their child’s life. They said they didn’t know what to take, they didn’t know how long they were going to be there. When they got back, they said they found out when they got there that they didn’t need anything. They had this type of facility and St. Jude’s leads the way on that. So it was… we need one here in Oklahoma and it was kind of a calling by God for me. It was like, ‘I’ve got my foundation, I raise money, now what am I gonna do with it?’ So this place was built with that kind of love.” The post Zach Top Visited Pediatric Cancer Patients & Their Families At The Toby Keith’s OK Kids Korral first appeared on Whiskey Riff.