Tulsa Comprehensive Plan - PLANiTULSA

Parks, Trails and Open Space
parT iv: Tulsa’s Green infrasTrucTure
Tulsa Parks and Open space
The City of Tulsa manages 130 parks covering roughly
6,000 acres and including nature centers, golf courses, the
WaterWorks Art Studio, Clark Theatre and Heller Theatre
at Henthorne, Tulsa Zoo & Living Museum, and the Tulsa
Garden Center. The Tulsa parks system includes many
swimming pools, sports fields, playgrounds, tennis courts,
water playgrounds, The River SkatePark, picnic shelters,
community centers, fitness facilities, gymnasiums, meeting
rooms and facilities, trails and more. Based on the findings
of the Tulsa Parks Master Plan, Tulsa has a well-distributed
system of parks and recreation facilities that meets a wide
range of needs. The City is now challenged to maintain its
existing infrastructure of aging parks and to bring its parks
and recreation system into a new century of needs, desires,
and conditions.
Table 3: Tulsa’s Green infrastructure
land characteristic
acres
Total land within city limits 128,397
Water (rivers, streams) 2,486
riparian habitat 4,719
Wetlands (including buffers) 193
floodplain 16,316
steep slopes (25%+) 366
constraints subtotal 24,080
Source: Fregonese Associates
figure 3: Tulsa’s Green infrastructure
Existing Trails and On-Street Bikeways
Streams/Riparian (INCOG)
Open Water (INCOG)
Wetland (USGS)
Floodplain (City of Tulsa)
Slopes >25% (USGS)
Tree Canopy - 2001(USGS)
Parks (City of Tulsa)
Open Space (City of Tulsa)
Surface Limestone (City of Tulsa)
Source: Fregonese Associates
July 2010
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