We recently explored Tulsa Centennial Park and realized that the park is an absolutely gorgeous addition to downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma and the surrounding area. However, one aspect we noticed was the abundance of garbage located near the edges of the ponds and around the grounds. With the City of Tulsa and Public Works divisions working their bootys off trying to keep Tulsa together: roadways, construction, and various other projects; we’ve decided to provide a service to cleanup the park ourselves!

What we need from you?

We could definitely use all the assistance help we can get trying to clean-up the park! We could use anyone who has the ability to help pickup some garbage and haul it away. There are numerous garbage canisters around the park grounds, but obviously people are not using them. If we can get the park cleaned up, maybe people will help maintain the cleanliness by junking their garbage away in the appropriate location.

Sunday, August 31, 2008 from 3:00PM to 5:00PM

The time and date hopefully will not be an issue; The Gathering is located at 6th and Madison, so if you want to attend a late service on Sunday, they’re available for worship. If not, stick around and I’m sure we’ll all be hanging out doing something nearby!

Meet at Time Capsule on Sixth Street

Located on Sixth street across from the VFW is the Centennial Time Capsule, we can all meet there and begin. If you’re running late or early — we’ll be around the park I’m sure.. just look for the people picking up trash!

If this is not your cup of tea, hey we don’t hate you! But if you’re down for helping our city stay beautiful and need something to do with your Sunday time, hit us up!

Bring some gear!

If you have gloves, a net from your pool, extra gloves, gloves, more gloves, and garbage liners — bring em! We’ll likely need just about anything you can think of to make this happen. If you have waiders(sp?) those pants made of rubber to walk into water.. might bring those too!

Let us know if you can make it!

To keep us informed on how much water and beverages to bring, please leave a comment on this thread (scroll down a bit for the form). This way we can have a some-what accurate number of how many people we can corrupt and put on liquid speed (aka Redbull)!

ThisTulsa.com will bring bottles of water and RedBullRoundUp.com will provide RedBull™ for everyone — in moderation (No killing six in less than a minute Justin..)

Press release information

We have a Press release that is available for immediate release! Send it to everyone you know and lets get some people together!

Tucked away just west of Peoria towards Madison and directly south of Sixth (6th Street) street, lies a hidden beauty of Tulsa, Oklahoma. During our recent exploration of Tulsa Centennial Park we were left with the impression that the park is pretty much completed. There does not appear to be much of anything left unfinished in the parks beautiful 11 acres of lush greens, water, and stone walls. The park has a wonderful view of the downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma skyline: Mid continent Tower, Atlas Life Building, Philtower, OneOK, Bank of America Building, The Kennedy Tower, BOK Tower, and City Hall. The skyline is meshed between the 75-N/75-S to 51-Eastbound (Broken Arrow Expressway) and 244-E/W.

While we were there we saw a bit of wildlife: squirrels, rabbits, birds, and a variety of insects. The park is wrapped with a quarter mile walking trail, lush greenery that is contrasted with the large stone walls, water falls, fountains, and numerous benches to rest on.

There is a variety of photographs we took throughout the evening we explored. Amanda brought her rottweiler Joey to join in on the adventures and allowed her to run freely around the park. The grass was of great height to just kick back and enjoy and other individuals in the park didn’t seem to mind the dogs roaming. Granted there were no dogs randomly roaming — but more or less sitting with their owners enjoying the park just as much.

The walk ways were clear of debris and the ponds free from pesky mosquitoes! The only eye-sore to the whole project was the large amount of garbage collecting near the edges of the ponds. The clean-up process wouldn’t be too difficult; just a matter of keeping it under control.

I must say, the park was beautiful in the day time hours and even more beautiful at night. The park began to illuminate from the lamps strategically placed around the paths. It is near the VFW on 6th Street which has a old neon sign that shines brightly against the greenery of the park. If you have not seen the park at night — go sometime soon!

Tulsa Centennial Park Features and Highlights

• 11.6 acres
• Designated parking with handicap spaces
• Centennial time capsule, scheduled to be unearthed in the year 2048, includes items such as a protype of the 1998 Plymouth Prowler, a City of Tulsa Financial Report, student essays on what Tulsa will be like in the year 2048 and Tulsa restaurant menus.
• Playground area with, shelter, spray pool, big toy, swing with 2 sling seats
• .4 mile walking trail
• Ornate park benches
• Picnic tables with grills
• Lots of trash cans
• Lots of tree shaded areas

Remembering the construction, before and after:

All in all, downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma can be proud of Tulsa’s Centennial Park as an addition to its growing list of parks and recreational facilities. The City of Tulsa is really doing a wonderful job opening up new parks and managing the large list of existing parks. Kudos to Kathy Taylor and everyone involved in helping keep Tulsa a thriving and beautiful place to live!