Tracking down Trail-heads in North East Dallas County

It was a beautiful day after a fall rain and we drove out to see Rowlett Creek Preserve and all three trailheads of the Trinity Trail at Lake Lavon.  We did not do any hiking due to the muddy trail conditions caused after a rain in north Texas. Hiking in muddy conditions does significant damage Read more…

Trails both Unloved and Overused

Part of the inspiration to create this trail guide came from watching Cedar Ridge Preserve add parking, add parking and add more parking over the last decade. It is amazing and inspiring to see so many new people finding their ways to trails. I love Cedar Ridge; I have been going there for over a Read more…

Inaugural Voyage to Meet the Trails of Dallas

This Labor Day weekend my wife and I drove to a few new spots to enjoy the beautiful day. We needed something to do and we needed some photos of the trails on the website as we will not use someones photos unless they post them here. Our first stop was Samuell Farm (South) in Read more…

Listing all the Trails in Dallas

This project is big, especially if we are to write descriptions of each trail before we start to hike each one of them. It is very odd writing descriptions for trails that you have not personally been to. This has also been slowing down the process of just getting the trails listed and on the Read more…

First post on the blog for trails in dallas

So we have been at this for 3 months on casual time. Casual time means that I was able to hike 600 miles of the Appalachian trail as I found/refined my calling to list all of the trails within DFW. It has long been a frustration of  mine that whenever I want to try a Read more…