Night time trail closures on April 25 and 26

Posted on April 24, 2012 by fwrct

From Adeline Cosgrove, Public Information Coordinator at LBJ Express.

“I wanted to inform you that the LBJ Express project will be doing nightly work at Park Central Drive this week. Because of this work, we will need to close the White Rock Creek Trail at the underpass of Park Central Drive from 7:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. on Wednesday night, April 25th and Thursday night April 26th. These are temporary closures and will be open during the day.”

“Safety is the number one concern, and closing the trail while we perform work at Park Central Drive will ensure the safety of those users of the White Rock Creek Trail.”

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Saturday’s Trail Clean Up for It’s My Park Day

Posted on April 1, 2012 by fwrct

Thanks to all of the Friends of White Rock Creek Trail who joined the Dallas City Park and Recreation Department to help clean up our White Rock Creek Trail and Harry Moss Park on Saturday (March 31st).

Also, many thanks to the dedicated Park and Recreation staff (including Ken Beam, Jeremy McMahon, David Dixon) for their support of It’s My Park Day.

Here is a picture of our group as we prepared to ‘attack the trail’ and ‘dispose of the debris’ that had accumulated since our last It’s My Park Day. This was much easier than last year, probably because the Park and Rec. Dept had been active in cleaning up after the last the two floods earlier this year. However, we all appreciated the chance to help, and we look forward to continuing our partnership with the Park and Recreation Department to keep our Parks and Trails beautiful!

volunteers

From left to right: Ken Beam (Dallas Park and Rec. Dept.), John Kimbrell (FWRCT), Jerry Ferguson, Phil Devero (FWRCT), Marc Mumby (FWRCT), Jerry Allen (City Council Member for district 10), Don Pearce (FWRCT), Joan Walne (District 10 member and President of the Dallas Park Board), Martha Kimbrell (FWRCT), Steve Marsden (FWRCT), Margaret Dunham.

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Detours around WRC Trail construction at LBJ

Posted on March 29, 2012 by fwrct

We had a question on our Facebook page about possible detours around the LBJ construction that will close the trail on April 6-7 and 13-14. We’re assuming that Park Central under LBJ will also be closed those mornings, so that won’t be an option. Here are a couple of possibilities.

Ride to Hillcrest Road and cross LBJ on the street. You can get off the trail at the small side path just east of the Central underpass. From there you can ride south on the Central access road sidewalk and cross under the freeway on the small sidewalk. You can then take Park Central Plaza and Park Central Place to Northaven and ride west to Hillcrest.

Use the Cottonwood Trail. From the intersection of the Cottonwood and WRC Trails, go north on the Cottonwood under LBJ & Central to top of trail at Mahan Road. From there you can take Mahan, Kit, Emily, and Alpha roads east to Peyton Drive, where you can then easily get to the top of White Rock Creek Trail. Here’s a map:


View Cottonwood Trail to Peyton Dr. in a larger map

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Temporary Trail Closures at Park Central on April 6-7 and 13-14

Posted on March 28, 2012 by fwrct

This is from Adeline Cosgrove, Public Information Coordinator for LBJ Express.

“I wanted to let you all know that the LBJ Express project will be hanging beams on LBJ Freeway at the overpass of Park Central Drive coming up in the next few weeks. Because of this work, we will need to close the White Rock Creek Trail at the underpass of Park Central Drive from 8:00 p.m. Friday, April 6th to 12/Noon Saturday April 7th and then again from 8:00 p.m. Friday April 13th to 12/Noon Saturday April 14th.”

“Safety is the number one concern for the LBJ Express during this construction process, and closing the trail while we perform the beam hanging will ensure the safety of those users of the White Rock Creek Trail. We recommend you to sign up for our text message alerts so that we may inform you if the closure of White Rock Creek Trail ends earlier than noon on that Saturday. Text @lbjexpress to the number 23559 in order to receive these updates.”

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Trash Pick Up Day on March 31st

Posted on March 15, 2012 by fwrct

The Friends of the White Rock Creek Trail is teaming up with the Dallas Park and Recreation Department to sponsor a trash pick up day in conjunction with It’s My Park Day. Please come out and help us clean up the trail! It really needs it after the big storms last month.

White Rock Creek Trail Trash Pick Up Day
Meet at Harry Moss Park parking lot at SE corner of Greenville and Royal (map)
8:30 AM
Sat., March 31, 2012

Volunteers should bring a pair of gloves.
The city will provide trash bags, litter pickup sticks, and will collect filled bags.
FWRCT will provide water and soft drinks.

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Green stuff in the creek was not an early St. Patricks Day celebration

Posted on March 15, 2012 by fwrct

Many people may have thought it was a St. Patricks day prank or maybe the start of a Zombie takeover, but the green stuff flowing under the trail and into the creek just north of Forest Lane yesterday was actually some green dye released by Medical City. Here’s the story from WFAA news.

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