Turkey Mountain breaks ground for Phase One of Master Plan

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TULSA, Okla. — Trail improvements are coming to Turkey Mountain. The River Parks Authority unveiled caller way designs astatine a groundbreaking Friday afternoon.

Turkey Mountain is implicit 600 acres of wilderness successful Tulsa on the Arkansas River and Highway 75 and volition look antithetic precise soon.

The Riverparks Authority on with metropolis and region leaders announced its operation docket for way improvements that were antecedently adopted successful the 2020 Master Plan. They besides revealed the caller way designs. They said the groundbreaking is conscionable signifier 1 which volition interaction astir 400 acres including 12 miles of improved multi-use trails for hikers, runners and upland bikers.

River Parks Authority Coordinator Ryan Howell said this enactment volition further unlock the park's potential.

"What radical told america resoundingly was that they wanted to support Turkey Mountain chaotic and we needed to marque it a small spot better. Because they realized that a batch of the trails retired present weren’t harmless oregon needfully a bully prime trail, they weren’t sustainable_{," said Howell.}

While the trails volition beryllium redone and go much radical friendly, designers said it volition inactive stay a wilderness country for radical to enjoy.

Construction for Phase One begins November 15th and volition instrumentality astir a twelvemonth to implicit astatine a outgo of conscionable implicit 3 cardinal dollars raised mostly done backstage gifts. In caller days Mayor Bynum has recommended Turkey Mountain besides person 1 cardinal dollars successful American Rescue Plan funding.

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