Despite the name, this is not a place you go for punk hair styles. At 3,300 acres, this is the largest park in the city of Tulsa, OK. It is also one of the largest city parks in the United States.

John has started scanning paper photos from his mother’s collection of photos. He found family photos of a visit to Mohawk Park in July of 1971. It includes one of aunts, at age 16, riding the carousel with a friend. He had not even heard of Mohawk Park.

John never said it was a good picture. We believe the date on the side is the development date. The notes on the back indicate July of 1971. Being blurry, we are not sure which one is John’s aunt and which is the friend.

We decided to go up and take a look at the park. As it turns out, this park has the Tulsa Zoo, a golf course, a disc golf course, a nature center, and more. John had heard of the Tulsa Zoo, but he did not know it was in Mohawk Park near the airport.

We had some errands to run in Tulsa before going, so we did not arrive early enough to go to the zoo. We did go into the Mary K. Oxley Nature Center and walk about 0.5 miles of trail.

It has the typical maps, informative signs, and bulletin boards out front.

Inside, it has an information desk, souvenir store, local art, and educational material.

The most interesting item in the nature center was a man making osteological (bone) sculptures from people’s pet birds. It was both creepy and fascinating.

He had some sculptures on the way. Presumably, these were not the pets or are awaiting pick-up.

He said that he uses flesh eating beetles as a first cleaning of the bones. He had a jar of them on his desk; do not reach into there looking for candy! He said there was follow up processing of the bones, but he did not go into detail. He (almost) exclusively works on birds, but he has one cat that he has not started. (No, we are not going to do that to MacKie and Cleo.)

Outside there was a deck, a pond, and a few miles of hiking trails with some informative signs about nature.

There were also a bunch of self stations, but every place is a selfie station to Kate.

On the way out, we stopped at the entrance to the Tulsa Zoo. The carousel in the picture was outside the zoo, and it was removed decades ago. A new carousel was installed in the zoo; you can see it in the distance over the fence.