Turkey Mountain Cleanup Day

Saturday January 17th @ 9:30 AM

Please Join Us! We would love your help with some fun and easy winter cleanup, all you need to do is show up with a positive attitude and a little energy to give back to Turkey Mountain. All ages and skill levels welcome.

We are anticipating a high turn out and parking will be at a premium. Please carpool when available and please DO NOT park at the church across the street.

Volunteers will gather at the Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness trailhead parking lot to then hike into the park to pick up litter and prune vegetation that obstructs hikers, runners and cyclists who may be on the trails.

Please bring the following: a personal water bottle (jugs of water will be provided), a picnic lunch, work gloves and pruners / loppers (clearly identifiable as your own) if you have them!

Special group assignment opportunities also available, to learn more you can reach us at byway of our email webmaster@tulsaurbanwildernesscoalition.org

Thank You To Our Cleanup Day CoSponsor OEF!

George Kaiser Family Foundation Pledges To Preserve Turkey Mountain

Hundreds of people showed up Monday for a town hall meeting concerned they would lose access to the mountain. The news that Turkey Mountain is safe is sure to be a relief.

Bryan Duval, with T-Town Bicycles said, “That’s phenomenal and awesome. That would be the one acceptable solution to what everybody feared, that we would lose this chunk and then we’d lose even more of it.”

100-plus volunteers repair, reroute trails on Turkey Mountain

Michael Patton, executive director of The Metropolitan Environmental Trust, which helped organize the volunteers, said the event was unique because of the wilderness area itself — you can’t just drive a truck up the trails. Crews had to “do it the hard way to keep it wilderness,” Patton said, by using wheelbarrows to carry up gravel and dirt to fill in eroded terrain.