Hikers At Turkey Mountain Discover Prizes By means of Scavenger Hunt

Some Individuals who hiked Turkey Mountain these days are thankful for much more than just the work out. 

They found prizes in the park’s scavenger hunt, which was postponed a week thanks to the weather. 

For some hikers it was greater late than hardly ever.

“This is a good put to come,” hiker Tina Fountain reported. “As considerably as I know, this is the best area in Tulsa to hike and to be able to get some workout.” 

Climbing down all these hills and stones is currently a training enough, but for some persons, they observed a tiny prize in the stop that designed it all well worth it.

“We enticed them by hiding prizes in the woods that they can come and uncover,” Ryan Howell with River Parks said. 

Organizers hid drinking water bottles, t-shirts stickers and a lot more as a enjoyment way to encourage persons to hike.

“I assume it can be a wonderful strategy,” Fountain mentioned. “I necessarily mean I imagine there was people today up there right now that wouldn’t typically hike that imagined…oh I am going to convey my little ones. You know they can get a prize. So, it could be a way to get them into mountaineering.” 

Howell with states once they commenced selling it on Fb, it obtained traction rapid.

“We have been just really stunned at how common it was in terms of like Fb responses and shares and likes and everybody expressing they’re coming and things like that,” Howell said. “So, we were genuinely blown away by it.”

Howell claims these interactive gatherings do as a great deal superior for the metropolis as the workout these hikers get right after a very long walk.

“The a lot more folks that we can get out in this article to encounter nature and knowledge this park, the greater for Tulsa,” Howell stated. “Just general it enhances everybody’s top quality of lifestyle.” 

The Initially Working day Hikes are component of a nationwide initiative to really encourage men and women to get outdoors.