Salt River tubing celebrates summer with Mammoth Hawaiian Hula, 8/1

The Mammoth Hawaiian Hula might be the final time to enjoy a cool ride down the lower Salt River before the Valley school season starts.

“It’s the last hurrah,” said Lynda Breault, Salt River Tubing & Recreation vice president. “We will greet the first 1,000 visitors with free Hawaiian leis.

“We see women wear bathing suits beneath grass skirts at this event. I think the men are even more hilarious. They wear a coconut costume and big hats. We try to make the event that mini break before you go back to school.”

Workers in grass skirts will greet people at the grass-thatched tube-rental windows with lively limbo music streaming through the speakers. The Mammoth Hawaiian Hula adventure starts at the terminal, where guests will rent their tubes and hop on shuttle buses for a ride to the put-in point.

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The name of the event is a play on the size of the crowd that is expected to show up, Breault said. June’s Hawaiian Mega Hula drew up to 3,000 people.

Event coordinators expect Saturday’s crowd will be larger than June’s event. The weather should suit because the mercury is projected near 108 degrees.

Breault reminds people the last tube rental is at 2 p.m. and the last shuttle pickup to return to the parking lot is at 6:30 p.m.

Mammoth Hawaiian Hula

When: 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1.

Where: Salt River Tubing, 9200 N. Bush Highway, east of Mesa.

Admission: $17 per person. Cash only. Price includes tube rental and shuttle service. Children must be at least 8 years old and 4 feet tall.

Details: saltrivertubing.com