Scissortail Park

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Here is another before-and-after courtesy of https://twitter.com/JVR405.

First photo is from 2012.

Wow

[Pete]

Scissortail Park partners with The Chickasaw Nation to present SCISSORTAIL PARK CONCERTS 2024
Free concerts hosted on the Love’s Travel Stops Stage & Great Lawn, June – October


OKLAHOMA CITY – Scissortail Park announced today the addition of The Chickasaw Nation as the presenting sponsor for the Scissortail Park Concerts series in 2024. The free concerts hosted on the Love’s Travel Stops Stage and Great Lawn are scheduled from June through October. Guests are invited to bring blankets and lawn chairs to enjoy free performances from local, regional, and national acts encompassing everything from reggae, soul, pop, rock, classical, and folk music.


“The Chickasaw Nation’s continual support of events and programs at Scissortail Park is instrumental to our ability to bring quality free concerts to the community,” said Maureen Heffernan, CEO of Scissortail Park Foundation and Myriad Gardens Foundation. “Governor Anoatubby is a generous leader who values culture and community, and we are so grateful for his support. The Chickasaw Nation joins our benefactor sponsors Dick & Glenna Tanenbaum, as well as sponsors including Omni Oklahoma City Hotel, BancFirst, INSURICA, The Kerr Foundation, and Kirkpatrick Foundation. Our concert series is also supported in part by the Oklahoma Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Oklahoma and the National Endowment for the Arts.”



2024 SCHEDULE:
The Wailers
“A Night of One Love” featuring The Wailers
Friday, June 14 | 8pm
Love’s Travel Stops Stage & Great Lawn
GRAMMY nominated reggae pioneers celebrate the 40th anniversary of Bob Marley and the Wailers’ album, LEGEND, live on our stage!

Summer of Soul Night
Friday, July 19 | 8pm
Love’s Travel Stops Stage & Great Lawn
Featuring a collection of regional soul artists coming together on Scissortail Park’s main stage!

A Night of OKC VOICES
Friday, August 9 | 8pm
Love’s Travel Stops Stage & Great Lawn
Starring Oklahoma contestants from NBC’s The Voice including AJ Harvey, OK3, Tanner Massey, and Taylor Deneen!


OKC Philharmonic
Sunday, September 15 | 8:30pm
Love’s Travel Stops Stage & Great Lawn
Enjoy an encore performance by Oklahoma City’s Philharmonic orchestra!

The Indigo Girls
Friday, October 11 | 8pm
Love’s Travel Stops Stage & Great Lawn
The grand finale for our season concludes with the GRAMMY-Award winning folk rock duo as heard in the BARBIE movie and their new documentary, “It’s Only Life After All”!

[Pete]

Interesting to see how the landscaping has matured.

First photo is April of 2020; second is April of 2024.

[Jake]

So nice. It will only continue to look better.

[Urbanized]

I worked across the street from Myriad Gardens in the early 1990s, when they were still in the process of planting small-caliper trees within the park and lining sidewalks, very similar to those trees in Scissortail in the first pic. 30+ years later I now marvel at the mature pin oaks shaking hands over the sidewalks along Sheridan and the other beautiful trees there. The same thing will happen (IS happening) at Scissortail. It was exciting when the park was brand new, but, much like MBG, its best years are ahead.

[Pete]

^

It's one of the reasons I don't get upset when old-growth trees are sometimes cleared; as long as there is a heavy landscaping plan.

Landscape architecture is like everything else: we simply know so much more than just 50 years ago.

It wasn't that long ago that Bradford Pears were the rage and trees with invasive root systems were planted too close to homes and sidewalks, causing havoc.

[FighttheGoodFight]

Lets hope for no October ice storms and those trees will be great in 10 years.

[josefromtulsa]

Lets hope for no October ice storms and those trees will be great in 10 years.

its always good management to plant trees every 5-10 years to replace trees as they mature and die or are taken out by storms or disease.

I am sure the park has a great arborist that's helping too.

[Timshel]

^

It's one of the reasons I don't get upset when old-growth trees are sometimes cleared; as long as there is a heavy landscaping plan.

Landscape architecture is like everything else: we simply know so much more than just 50 years ago.

It wasn't that long ago that Bradford Pears were the rage and trees with invasive root systems were planted too close to homes and sidewalks, causing havoc.

It's going to be a really special place when the trees in the great lawn are big enough to trim the undergrowth and have a canopy of trees but still have great sight lines to the main stage. Will make concerts in the summer almost pleasant.

[Thunderbolt]

Can't wait for all the shade!

[Pete]

I was downtown last evening and Scissortail Park was completely packed; no parking spaces for blocks.

Myriad Gardens was also very busy and there was a concert at Paycom.

After all this time, it still surprises me how busy downtown can be on a weekday night. It's really gratifying to see.

[HOT ROD]

very nice to hear Pete.

That 2nd pic really does show how far OKC (and the world to an extent) has come in 2 years, when compared to the first.

[Canoe]

I was downtown last evening and Scissortail Park was completely packed; no parking spaces for blocks.

Myriad Gardens was also very busy and there was a concert at Paycom.

After all this time, it still surprises me how busy downtown can be on a weekday night. It's really gratifying to see.

I am happy that the city decided to invest in itself. Anyone that builds anything worthwhile near sissortail will turn a healthy profit.

[gopokes88]

I was downtown last evening and Scissortail Park was completely packed; no parking spaces for blocks.

Myriad Gardens was also very busy and there was a concert at Paycom.

After all this time, it still surprises me how busy downtown can be on a weekday night. It's really gratifying to see.

Half the time I'm at Scissortail with the family, we meet another family on a cross country road trip that planned a stopover at a downtown hotel. OKC is a stopping point because they have heard "downtown okc and the park is really cool, clean, safe, and a great stop point. Exceeded even those expectations."

It's happened at least 10 times. That reputation will only grow with time.

[Teo9969]

^^That's super cool!!! The city should actually think about putting some signs out East Bound I-40 between El Reno & Yukon and West Bound between 240/40 fork and Tinker. "Exit ____. Tap the brakes and relax in 10 miles at OKC's Scissortail Park, right off I-40."

[Mballard85]

Huge concert tonight at the park, the great lawn is full with the hill full of people. They’ve got food trucks and beverages as well.

[Zorba]

I went to the Ballet in the park a couple weeks ago and was really surprised by how big the trees had gotten. I've been out there several times, but it didn't really click until I was looking at the stage through them. I remember thinking it was really bare right when the park opened.

[Bellaboo]

I was downtown last evening and Scissortail Park was completely packed; no parking spaces for blocks.

Myriad Gardens was also very busy and there was a concert at Paycom.

After all this time, it still surprises me how busy downtown can be on a weekday night. It's really gratifying to see.

Jordan Davis. - 'Buy Dirt'

[David]

Half the time I'm at Scissortail with the family, we meet another family on a cross country road trip that planned a stopover at a downtown hotel. OKC is a stopping point because they have heard "downtown okc and the park is really cool, clean, safe, and a great stop point. Exceeded even those expectations."

It's happened at least 10 times. That reputation will only grow with time.

Scissortail Park is up there as one of our best MAPS projects ever.

[Bellaboo]

The Omni and the Convention Center enhances the park when the sun goes down. Was at the Jordan Davis concert and it's quite the light show.

[Zorba]

The Omni and the Convention Center enhances the park when the sun goes down. Was at the Jordan Davis concert and it's quite the light show.

I went out to the Night Market tonight and was telling my wife I was really happy the convention center got put where it was, as opposed to the original location. I think it worked out much better with the park.