Bricktown Canal Celebrates 25th Anniversary

Downtown Oklahoma City is celebrating its iconic 25-year-old Bricktown Canal today.

The iconic waterway opened with water taxis going up and down its mile-long path since July 2, 1999.

“The Bricktown Canal is the vital anchor for Bricktown’s thriving entertainment scene,” Mayor David Holt said. “It has served as a catalyst for private investment for 25 years. That growth continues today with new experiences still being planned and built along the Canal,”

The Bricktown Water Taxi carried more than 128,000 passengers last year and remains one of Oklahomans favorite modes of transportation in Bricktown with its scenic route.

"The Canal helped transform Oklahoma City from a place nobody wanted to visit to a place people go out of their way to experience,” Water Taxi CEO Chad Huntington said. “In 1999, our guests were almost exclusively locals trying to see what the fuss was about, and now we speak daily to visitors from all over the world,”

Both locals and tourists alike use this means of transportation to navigate Bricktown's vast area and to see all the attraction like the Inclined which is a bronze sculpture which references the African American Cultural heritage of Bricktown and it can be located on the canal near the Mickey Mantle Dr.

For more information on the Canal and other Bricktown events, click here.