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Here’s a list of Oak Cliff parks and trails to visit this Earth Day
Residents can celebrate at one of many local outdoor spaces.
The Texas Buckeye Trail in the Great Trinity Forest.(Rose Baca / Staff Photographer)
Here are a few nearby outdoor spaces to choose from:
Elmwoof Dog Park: What started as a monthly-pop up in 2013 has become the first permanent off-leash dog park in Oak Cliff. The 0.3-acre green space is managed by the Elmwood Neighborhood Association.
2100 S. Edgefield Ave.
Runyon Creek Trail: The 2.7-mile trail begins at Glendale Park and extends to the UNT Dallas campus and the UNT-Dallas DART Station. Runyon Creek also passes through the Five Mile Creek Trail, Singing Hills recreation center and the Camp Wisdom DART Station.
Take a look at the $20 million rec center Oak Cliff residents always deserved but had to fight a decade to get
Determined to bring a first-class facility to southern Dallas, council member Tennell Atkins wrangled diverse stakeholders for - at long last - a big equity win.
A Blue Line DART train pulls into the Camp Wisdom station outside the newly opened Singing Hills Recreation Center in Oak Cliff Friday. The state-of-the-art facility, which includes an adjoining senior center, is an example of a transit-oriented design that serves the needs of the surrounding community.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
In a part of our city where people have too often been told they had to settle for “less than that,” Oak Cliff residents living around the icky old Singing Hills Recreation Center vowed that this time would be different.