Gathering Place (GGP Parks, LLC)

Gathering Place, designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, features a wild aesthetic that encourages exploration through its plant-filled pathways and rolling landscapes.

The park's 16 acres of meadows are bordered by dense displays of trees, woody shrubs, and perennial collections that represent all of Oklahoma's diverse ecological regions.

Gathering Place is home to an ever-growing collection of over 6,000 newly planted trees and 300 legacy trees representing over 150 woody plant species across its 66.5 acres including North American oak species alongside trees native to Africa, Japan, Iran, and China.

Since opening in 2018, Gathering Place continues to develop its horticultural collections including a Japanese flowering cherry walk, a Japanese maple collection, and a conifer collection. Notable trees at the park include an American Elm seedling from the survivor tree of the Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Building bombing and endangered species like green ash, white ash, dawn redwoods, atlas cedar, and ginkgos.

The park serves as a vital urban greenspace, providing habitat for a variety of wildlife species and functioning as a certified Monarch Waystation.