Tulsa's Gathering Place Hosts Free Spring Break Events For Kids

Gathering Place is expecting about 100,000 visitors this week for Spring Break. 

From live music and artwork, to bones from the Ice Age, Gathering Place said it has a little bit of everything for spring breakers. 

"This spring break is our biggest one yet,” Gathering Place Marketing Specialist Sydney Brown said. "There's tons of live performances, hands on STEM activities, we've got a fossil dig over at the beach."  

While it's a little chilly for the beach, there's a lot to see at the Boathouse, including an art activity called "Painting with Scissors," and learning about bones from the Ice Age.  

"The dinosaur stuff is in the panhandle. But here we find the mammoth, the mastodon, the sloth, the muskox, those kinds of things,” Catoosa resident Donny Replogle said.  

Replogle said he found the old bones in the Tulsa area, and hopes kids can take away a history lesson during their visit. 

"I started when I was seven,” he said. “They can start when they're seven, looking for rocks and stuff. You don't have to wait until you get out of college or get a degree, you can start now." 

With so much to do across the 66-acre park, Brown said visitors can also plan on eating at the park.  

"We've got options at Redbud Cafe, the patio and then upstairs here in the Boathouse at Vista, there will be a boathouse BBQ for pick up and to go options,” Brown said.  

Activities are going on from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day this week. For a complete list, click here.