Gathering Place

Tulsa’s Riverfront Park

Gathering Place is a massive recreational, civic and cultural destination in Oklahoma along Tulsa’s riverfront.

JONESPLAN’s primary focus was to install oversized native stones throughout the massive park. The installed stones are now landscape walls for bench seating, the jagged hillside for Slide Vale, the spiral walkway at Chapman Adventure Playground, boulders at Water Mountain, bridge supports, giant rocks at Willow Beach, and enbankment slabs at Peggy’s Pond.

Setting thousands of tons of native stones required close coordination with the architect through the completion of shop drawings, managing the logistics of ordering and receiving the stones from the quarries, and their safe and precise installation.

JONESPLAN also assisted with the enormous landscape scope, including wetland mitigation, temporary irrigation, beach sand installation, meadow plantings, mulching, fertilizing, flood repair and maintenance.

Architect: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates

Project Types: Community Spaces,
Civil & Environmental

Size: 66.5 acres

Self-Performance: 100%

young curly headed girl climbing up large stones with a slide in the background
a giant enclosed climbing tower in the middle of a beautiful park
natural stone pathway through native plants
a large enclosed slide surrounded by shade structures and a beautifully landscaped park
an aerial view of the Gathering Place in Tulsa
two young girls kneeling with their hands in running water through natural stonehrough
three children exploring a water pump among large stones at Tulsa's Gathering Place
a large sand recreational area with giant stones and other seating on the bank of a large pond
a family sitting together on a tiered stone seating area at Tulsa's Gathering Place
a group of ladies sitting on large stones and chatting