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The Great Raft Race will conclude with a final sunset celebration in 2025. Organizers say the event's mission to reconnect Tulsans to the Arkansas River was accomplished.
For the first time since 2019, the Great Raft Race returned to Tulsa on Monday as a part of the Big Dam Party to celebrate the opening of Zink Lake.
A combination of factors has led to the cancelation of Tulsa’s Great Raft Race this year, the event’s director said Tuesday. “The raft race is a daunting undertaking,” said Seth Erkenbeck ...
The Tulsa Great Raft Race officials announced that the race has been canceled this year. Their last race was held in 2019 and has been canceled since 2020 due to COVID-19 and bridge construction.
Tulsa's Great Raft Race Canceled For 2nd Year For the second year in a row, organizers have been forced to cancel Tulsa's annual Great Raft Race. Wednesday, June 16th 2021, 4:15 pm ...
About 1,000 racers took to the Arkansas River for the third year of the revival of Tulsa’s Great Raft Race Monday. The rafters took a wide variety of vessels—ranging from elaborate and ...
Race Director Seth Erkenbeck said 200 vessels sailed the river on Monday, 120 of the rafts were homemade and the others were kayaks, canoes and other means of travel.
Hundreds of rafts floated down the Arkansas River for Tulsa's Great Raft Race Monday. A total of 200 teams signed up for for the 2016 race, which coordinators say means about 750 people are ...
7:10am - County Commissioner Karen Keith stopped by to say hello before she jumps onto her raft and paddles toward Tulsa! 7:23am - Race director Seth Erkenbeck stopped by to fill us in on the latest.
PACKET PICKUP DETAILS: Dick's Sporting Goods Tulsa Hills Date and Time: Thursday 9/1 3pm-7pm Friday 9/2 11am-3pm ALL PARTICIPANTS are required to pick up their packet, sign the Raft Race waiver ...
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The Great Raft Race is returning to Tulsa. The race was a Tulsa tradition from 1973 to 1991, drawing hundreds of rafts and thousands of racers and spectators to the Arkansas River every Labor Day ...