Wagon Wheel Lake on Turkey Mountain
Great news for those of us who love Turkey Mountain. The City of Tulsa announced that Simon Property Group has formally withdrawn their proposal to build an outlet mall on Turkey Mountain and will pursue building the shopping center in the Tulsa suburb of Jenks. I love that Simon came to their senses. Building a shopping center on the mountain was a very stupid idea for a bunch of reasons. Kudos to a lot of people and organizations and especially the Tulsa Urban Wilderness Coalition for getting this stopped. It is not often in Oklahoma that the people step up and say no to big business on something dumb like this. Their efforts got a lot more people into the park which made things kind of crowded sometime but I think people realized what a treasure we whad.
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Congratulations to everyone, I am so happy for you all out there. Loved the photo!
That is fabulous news!
Congratulations to those who fought the good fight. I hope that Turkey Mountain will remain an urban wilderness. There will be those who will want to landscape everything, install soccer fields, paved bike and walking trails, and make the site more “user friendly”. A wilderness park is not meant to be user friendly to everyone. It is meant to be a place to experience the real outdoors. Again congratulations to all that helped keep Turkey Mountain a unique outdoor experience.
Great news. Events don’t often turn this way. The ‘turkey’ is saved!
Lovely photography and some editing? Glad the Mountain is saved!
Happy Week to you,
artmusedog and carol
That’s rather good news !!
Congratulations on your side winning the fight! Sometimes the good people really do win.
Sometimes, we actually DO get what we want. Such a pretty wild area – glad the public outcry saved it.
Life is good! Never been to Tulsa, but I am as happy about this news as if id lived there all my life! Your posts have brought this beautiful place to life!
Wonderful news!