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Weekend Roundup

There are few reasons to stay home this weekend with this line-up of family fun. From free entry to thrilling experience, there’s something for everyone!

• 👨🏻‍🌾Harvest Happiness:The Tulsa Farmer’s Market teamed up with Knight Pecan Farms in Sapulpa for Sunday’s 2nd Annual Harvest Festival with live music, pumpkin painting, pony rides and pecan harvesting.

• 🍭Trunk or Treat: Bring the whole family out to McLure Park in Tulsa for Sparky’s Spooktacular Trunk or Treat for games, candy and more.

• 🎃Brookside Boos: Bring your candy bags, it’s time for Brookside Tulsa’s BooHaha with a parade, storefront trick-or-treating, pet costume contest, face painting, dedicated kid zones and more!

• 🐯Wild and Wicked: Get your advance tickets to HalloZOOween at the Tulsa Zoo with daytime and nighttime events that include a haunted train, creepy carousel, royal castle arcade, candy stations and dinner for the family.

• 🔬Free Festival Fun: The Gathering Place is hosting Imagination Celebration Fall Festival with science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) learning zones that include binary code bracelet making, pumpkin seed art and a chance to win free passes to the Discovery Lab!

• 🚘North Tulsa Treats: The Phoenix District of North Tulsa will host a fall festival alongside area churches that will feature a car show, rides and food trucks.

• 🦴Chicken Dancing Dachshunds: Tulsa’s Oktoberfest is on tap featuring rides, beers, dancing, art vendors and competitions that include beer barrel races and Dachshund races.

• 🎤Looking for a Laugh: Comedian Matt Riffe best known for his self produced comedy specials will perform at Tulsa’s COX Business Center tonight!

• 🏁Jeep Jams: The weather should be perfect for the Exchange Club of Muskogee’s 5th Annual Jeep Jam featuring obstacles, trails, mud, concerts, rides and food.

Restaurant

A $2-Billion Entertainment Destination Development is Coming to Green Country

Phase one of American Heartland Theme Park and Resort will break ground October 30th.

• Take Me Glamping: the 3 phase project will kick off with a large scale RV park with cabins called Three Ponies RV Park and Campground opening in 2025. The destination will be located in Vinita with 750 RV spaces, 300 cabins, a dinner theater, amphitheater and pool.

• If You Build it, They Will Come: The American Heartland Theme Park and Resort is expected to bring more than 4,000 jobs to the region. It is being compared to parks like Disneyland and Magic Kingdom. Developers expect more than 4.9-million guests to visit per year. That’s more than Oklahoma’s population.

Check out these amazing renderings of the entire American Heartland Theme Park and Resort expected to open with all 3 phases complete in 2026.

Sponsored by Oral Roberts University, Fenimore and Fisher College of Business 

Oral Roberts University Is Connecting Business Leaders With the ORU Community Through a New Luncheon Series You Won’t Want to Miss!

The first keynote speaker at Oral Roberts University’s new luncheon series to speak is Hans Helmerich on October 26th.

• Partners in ‘PECE’: The ORU Fenimore and Fisher College of Business announced the new luncheon speaker series called PECE (pronounced “peace”) which stands for Partners in Economics, Commerce, and Entrepreneurship. PECE offers a networking space with a goal to inspire business leaders.

• Hans and the Healing Hands: ORU is known for the praying hands and transformational board of reference members like Hans Helmerich. With his experience at Helmerich & Payne, as Chairman of the Board since 2012 and former CEO of the company since 1989, he will discuss mentorship at the event.

Get your tickets for the luncheon at the ORU Global Learning Center.

Community

Catoosa’s Famous Landmark, The Blue Whale Park Is Getting Major Upgrades

A master plan has been revealed to upgrade the park with better bathrooms, some vacation rentals and putt-putt golf.

• Blues Traveler: The Route 66 landmark in Catoosa is up for $6-Million in renovations if the Catoosa City Council agrees. The whale itself will remain untouched outside of routine maintenance but improvements surrounding it could include a waterfall and a paved walkway in addition to the overnight suites and activities for families.

• Kick Off Your Boots and Stay a While: The blue whale was built in 1972 by zoologist Hugh S. Davis. It stands 20 feet tall and 80 feet long. The City of Catoosa is hoping to attract more visitors to the historic Route 66 park that will keep families searching for kicks in town for a little longer each time.

Plan your trip to see the historic Route 66 Blue Whale park!

In other news

• ✝️Partners in ‘PECE’: Get your tickets to Oral Roberts University’s new luncheon series featuring the first keynote speaker, Hans Helmerich of Helmerich & Payne as he speaks on mentorship October 26th.*

• 🥗Pass the Veggies: Tulsa’s first vegan chef challenge is already the largest in the country with over 60 restaurants participating in offering a new vegan dish for customers to enjoy in October.

• 🍿Home Sweet Habitat Home: Killers of the Flower Moon debut’s today and you may want to read up on 4-things you should know about the film before heading to the theater.

• 🍺Pass the Prost: As if Tulsa Oktoberfest couldn’t get any better, there are new attractions and expanded traditional attractions like the Das Glockenspiel with 3 bars and dances on the hour under the historic Oktoberfest clock.

• 🎵Songs of Sorrow: Tulsa singer song writer Dwight Tilley known for his top 20 hits “I’m on Fire” and “Girls” is resting in peace at the age of 72.

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