New Walkway In Broken Arrow Offers Unique Way To Learn About The Solar System

Residents in Broken Arrow now have a new way to learn about the solar system.

Broken Arrow, with the help of retired and current teachers, has brought the 'Voyage Solar System Walkway' to the city. Only the seventh one in the country.

The walkway is a 2,000-foot path of the solar system, scaled down to a one to 10 billion scale. The walkway starts with the Sun in front of Creekwood Elementary and ends with Pluto by Broken Arrow High School.

"You can look at a picture in a textbook or on television of the solar system, okay? That's the way the planets are, but you start walking it and this is really big," said John Land, retired Broken Arrow High School astronomy teacher, said.

The initial idea to try and bring the walkway to Broken Arrow was spearheaded by former teacher Sandy Montgomery who got other current and retired teachers on board.

Anyone can stroll the path and learn something new about the solar system.

"We kind of institutionalized it as a way to reach parents and kids because no adult can walk down this exhibit and not learn something because you just don't understand the distances out there till you do something like this," Judy Adair, a retired teacher who helped bring the Voyage Solar System Walkway to Broken Arrow said.

Land and Adair also said that students and teachers are excited about the walkway and they hope that even more schools will be able to experience it.

This story was written by News On 6 Multimedia Journalist Jonathan Polasek.