WATTS â Construction may still have a year and a half to go, but the partners behind an upcoming whitewater park say that based on the progress so far, they are excited about its future.
âIt doesnât look like it yet, but wait till itâs finished. This will be a world-class attraction,â said Ed Fite, GRDA vice president for rivers operations and water quality, who joined other project officials Tuesday for a tour of the WOKA Whitewater Park site.
âItâll be in the top 10 (whitewater parks nationwide), probably in the top five. Itâll be that good,â Fite said.
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June 29, 2021 3:56 PM Stacie Strader
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WATTS, Okla. – Kayakers, surfers and tubers will have a new place to play and relax in 2023.
The Grand River Dam Authority and the City of Siloam Springs, Arkansas are collaborating on a new whitewater adventure park. They’re calling it WOKA. It will be located near the Oklahoma and Arkansas state line.
WOKA will be based in Watts, Oklahoma at the old spillway of Lake Frances on the Upper Illinois River. It will have a 1,200 foot long, 100 foot wide channel for visitors to explore. Crews will also be constructing eight drop-features.
“The whitewater park’s name, WOKA, is formed from a combination of the words: water, Oklahoma and Arkansas. The 30-acre park falls within the Oklahoma border and inside the reservation boundaries of the Cherokee Nation,” according to its website.