Gathering Place

Gathering Place (originally A Gathering Place For Tulsa or The Gathering Place) is a 100-acre (of which 66.5 acres, known as Phase I of III, is currently completed)[1] park in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Construction on the park began in September, 2014. The first 66.5 acres opened September, 2018.

This article is about the park in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For the general concept of a "gathering place", see Gathering place.
Main article: Gathering Place (Tulsa park)

The George Kaiser Family Foundation and 80 other private contributors donated more than $465 million to fund the park's construction, the largest private donation to a public park in United States history.[2]

The main attractions are the Chapman Adventure Playground, the Williams Lodge, a boathouse, splash playground, great lawn, outdoor sports courts, a skate park, a wetland pond and garden, and numerous trails among other locations.[3]

Tulsa's Gathering Place was named the Best New Attraction in the nation in 2018 through the USA Today Readers’ Choice awards.[4] In 2019, Gathering Place made Time Magazine's list of The World's 100 Greatest Places of 2019,[5][6] and National Geographic's list of 12 Mind-Bending Playgrounds Around the World.[7]

References
  1. "Tulsa World editorial: Tulsa celebrates opening of Gathering Place as transformative park".
  2. Brown, Patricia Leigh (2018-08-10). "Transforming Tulsa, Starting with a Park". The New York Times.
  3. "Attractions". www.gatheringplace.org. Gathering Place. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
  4. "Tulsa's Gathering Place named the Best New Attraction in the Nation". USA Today 10Best. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
  5. "Time magazine names Gathering Place among 'World's Greatest Places'". Kevin Canfield, Tulsa World, August 22, 2019. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
  6. "World's Greatest Places 2019". Time Magazine. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
  7. "12 mind-bending playgrounds around the world--From Tulsa to Tokyo, imaginative spaces for all ages". Erica Jackson Curran, National Geographic. Retrieved August 23, 2019.


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