Pathfinder Parkway is a 12-mile walking, jogging and biking trail that traverses Bartlesville, OK.

This 12 mile paved pathway, for walking, jogging and biking, runs mostly along the Caney River and Turkey Creek, connecting Johnstone Park, Robinwood Park, Jo Allyn Lowe Park

Jo Allyn Lowe Park

Jo Allyn Lowe Park is a public park, with arboretum, located at the corner of Price Road and Locust Road, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, USA. It is open to the public daily....

, Sooner Park, Bartlesville High School, the Wesleyan Church, and Eastland Shopping Center, at the corner of Hwy 75 and Frank Phillips Blvd.

Joel Smith originally planned for Pathfinder to run along both sides of the Caney River and to connect to Circle Mountain, and while currently only 12 miles have been built, work continues with the recently opened connection from Jo Allyn Lowe Park to the Colonial Estates Addition.

Timeline

• Designed by Joel Smith
• Original pathway constructed in 1976.
• Designated as a National Recreation Trail
  National Recreation Trail
  National Recreation Trail is a designation given to existing trails that contribute to health, conservation, and recreation goals in the United States. Over 1,000 trails in all 50 U.S. states, available for public use and ranging from less than a mile to in length, have been designated as NRTs...
  
  in 1977.
• Bridge rebuilt in 1996.
• Extended in 1999

External links

• Bartlesville Park Dept.
• George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center This non-profit research and conservation organization installed 12 full color, interpretive signs along two miles of the trail north of Jo Allyn Lowe Park describing birds that can be seen along the trail.
• Bartlesville Timeline
• Friends of the Parks map of the paths.
• Bartlesville Pedalers Bicycles are frequent users of the path.