“Each donor contributes to this project because of its enormous multigenerational impact,” Stava said. “What better way to symbolize that impact than by having the kids participating in the groundbreaking ceremony itself?”

There’ll be plenty to eat, too. About two-dozen food trucks will be on hand selling everything from Popsicles to pizza.

“This has been private property forever,” Stava said of the park site. “This is the first chance people will get to come onto the site and walk the land.”

Posts will be set up marking where the lodge, boat house and other features of the park will be built.

“The public is going to be able to see and get a view of how large this project is and how really neat this park is going to be,” Stava said.

Ray Vandiver has already been on the park property. He and some of his staff from the Tulsa Children’s Museum spent part of Thursday setting up the metal scaffolding for a tape tunnel.

Vandiver, the museum’s executive director, called the tunnel a spinoff of the museum’s iconic Tulsa Tape Tunnel.