Tulsa’s Great Raft Race will officially hold its final race on Labor Day, September 1. Organizers of the long-standing event will hold one final gathering, Raft Race Sails into the Sunset, on ...

TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa’s Great Raft Race will cease this year. Organizers of the long-standing event will hold one final gathering, Raft Race Sails into the Sunset, on Saturday, August 16, at ...

Tulsa's Great Raft Race, the annual event held on Labor Day, is being halted. Organizers will hold a final event to send it off in August.

Ten years since its revitalization, Tulsa’s Great Raft Race is preparing for its final splash. Organizers announced the long-running Labor Day race will sunset after its 2025 season, marking the ...

TULSA, Okla. — A Tulsa tradition is scrapped, again. The Great Raft Race is no more. Organizers announced there will be no race this year or in future years. Rafts launch in the 1981 Great Raft ...

Water is let into the whitewater flume below Zink Dam for the first time on March 12. When Tulsa's Great Raft Race returns on Labor Day, a new category will allow small-raft competitors to go ...

Bringing back Tulsa's Great Raft Race is nostalgic for some. Ray Thompson dressed up like a Viking in 2017 to match his boat and said he raced in the 70s. "I was in 1975, 76, 77 in the raft race ...

It doesn’t take more than some 2-by-6 pieces of lumber, some plastic barrels or foam and a plywood platform to construct a raft that’ll do just fine to navigate the 8-mile stretch of Arkansas ...

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 weekend. Tulsa's 'Great Raft Race' Is ...