The fifth annual Touch-A-Truck Bristow, OK connects neighbors in a way that no other event does, and it’s through local truckers! This unique collaboration event will take place Saturday, August 2, 2025 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., with the inclusive “Quiet Hour” from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at 499 Weatherwood Way, Bristow, OK 74010, at the Bristow Rodeo Arena and Leon Pinson Sports Complex. Our “Quiet Hour” is an hour of time where the horns of the big rigs will remain quiet but there will be the sound of generators. This is to give a less startling experience for families. Survival Flight 12 from Cushing will be landing their helicopter at 10 a.m., weather permitting. Rotary Club of Bristow is working with Community Bank, SpiritBank, and Bristow Creative Arts Center to gather and disperse free school supplies and backpacks from their annual school supply drive.
This community favorite one-day event is connecting different organizations, small businesses, clubs, trucks, and generous individuals to local families and neighbors. Touch-A-Truck is truly about connections and all of the different groups doing work to meet their neighbors’ needs and connect with really cool vehicles and big fun too!
Thirty-one artisan and informational vendors will be lined up to share their creations and connections to resources and local clubs with visitors. Food trucks and trailers will join in by selling breakfast and lunch, coffee and lemonade, and desserts, while our host, the Bristow Round Up Club, will be manning a full concession stand. You will find local youth working some of these booths ready to share with visitors about their local 4-H Club.
In 2021, we started this journey with less than twenty rides, then grew the next two years to have almost forty rides. Last year, Touch-A-Truck filled the air, ground, and sea with fifty-seven “trucks”, including boats, a helicopter, and a hot air balloon. Touch-A-Truck Bristow has confirmed sixty-seven trucks with many more awaiting a response.
️There are seven groups of people making this event happen. These teams work at doing what they do best; cheering each other on, and carrying the work load when it gets too much for one group. This is Bristow. Some of our best connecting work is not just with trucks, food vendors, small business owners, clubs, and organizations, but it’s with philanthropists. These individuals give their time, money, and effort to gather, organize, and give items away such as school supplies and backpacks.
Generous sponsors have covered the costs for families to make this event admission FREE by providing university and local school mascots, bounce houses, a mechanical bull, face painting, dummy roping, and photo opportunity stations.
We are thankful to the entire community for making this possible. This is what coming together looks like. There are just happy people sharing what they do best and giving of their bounty to help others have a joyful back-to-school season.
For more information, please contact Kylie Thomas at touchatruckbristow@gmail.com, call (918) 948-3343, or follow up on Facebook @TouchATruckBristow. To make a tax-deductible donation to provide school supplies to Creek County youth, please make checks payable to “Rotary Club of Bristow” and deposit them with SpiritBank in Bristow.
