Parkdale park generator#

It’s also a nice bike ride south of White Rock Lake this aerial photo from 1967 shows you how close the two really are. If the drone videos shared by the Circuit Trail Conservancy are any indication, then it will make for a fine park.

Parkdale park generator#

Parkdale, farmland in the 1930s that was turned into a “water storage site” in the 1950s for an electric generator that was decommissioned in 2005, has been owned by Oncor since 2010. It’s complicated.Īnyway, Parkdale Lake also serves another practical purpose for the city and the trail, per the conservancy, helping control runoff in the White Rock Creek floodplain. It’s also sort of technically in Mesquite. Samuell Farm sits way out east and doesn’t see as much use as it should, although that’s a different story. The Circuit Trail Conservancy, which is building The LOOP, says this is “the largest parkland dedication in Dallas since 1937,” when William Worthington Samuell bequeathed 600 acres of farmland to the city. The Trinity Forest Spine Trail link, leading from White Rock Lake in East Dallas to the Trinity Forest in southern Dallas, will run alongside White Rock Creek through this new park land. That’s the name-the caps lock seems to be a recent affectation- of the soon-to-be-connected-and-extended trail system that will ultimately form a 50-mile circuit around the city. The energy company was spurred into its generosity in large part by t he efforts of former parks director Willis Winters and the coming of The LOOP.

The city says that Oncor is donating to the parks department the sizable chunk of land, which includes and surrounds Parkdale Lake just east of Elsie Faye Higgins St., just north of State Highway 352, and just west of White Rock Creek. About 110 acres of park space are coming to southern Dallas.