{"id":14089,"date":"2022-08-01T16:01:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T21:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=14089"},"modified":"2022-08-03T16:33:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T21:33:22","slug":"a-tour-of-tulsas-lubell-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=14089","title":{"rendered":"A Tour of Tulsa’s Lubell Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Last week after walking the new trails at Bales Park in west Tulsa, I drove ovder to nearby Lubell Park to check out their new trails. Their trails new to me but they had the grand opening on the new trails in October 2021. Before that they were hand cut trails by volunteers. The new trails were put in by the professionals at Rogue Trails<\/a> out of Arkansas. The same people working on the Bales Park Trails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve only been to Lubell one time before to find a geocache. What Lubell was mainly known for up until the new trails was the number and aggressiveness of their ticks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ticks no more on these big wide, sustainable, cool trails. At least I didn’t get any (I use tick spray whenever I am in the woods.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The trails are pretty cool. The project was sponsored by a local bicycle club and so the trails kind of cater to mountain bikes but they are perfectly hikable. These are the only mountain bike trails that I have seen in Tulsa that I think I would be okay with riding my bike on. Smooth, no steeps ups and downs, and doable turns. The new trails at Turkey Mountain and Bales are pretty cool but I don’t have the skillz necessary to ride them successfully. At my age, gravity is not friend! Can I get an Amen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And they have some interesting features such as this shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These look like thrones to me. Lubeell is integrated into the surrounding neighborhood such that some people have gates in the fences that open into the park. That is where I found these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And they had several cairns or stacked rocks. I used to think they were cool but they don’t really go with a leave no trace vibe<\/a>. They are not much of a problem in Oklahoma but some parts of the country are getting overrun with these and are technically illegal in National Parks<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The east boundary fence appears to be a deer proof fence. I noticed a deer feeder on the other side. Notice the greenery. It is lespedeza<\/a>, a noxious plant introduced to the United States from Asia in the 1890 and was widely used as a cover on non-productive soils. The problem is that it takes over and deer and livestock won’t eat it. I hate the stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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