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Breckinridge Park Information

The Knolls homeowners have a unique and beautiful benefit in Breckinridge Park, a 417 acre nature area. The park has a softball complex, soccer fields, playgrounds, trails and a 10-acre lake. Every July fourth, the Richardson fire works display happens right across Breckinridge Boulevard in the Park and anyone who's been at home on the 4th knows that The Knolls is the place to be to see the best show.


Take some time to enjoy a nature stroll through the trails.

Latest Park New

Park Clean Up: The Knolls neighbors have have occassionally had a park clean up party for an opportunity to clean up what has washed up on shore or missed the little barrels. Trash bags are provided and a huge dumpster from the city collects an amazing amount of debris.

View the photos from a clean up party.

Park Information Meeting: The Parks and Recreation department is generally available to address neighborhood concerns about our parks and any developments in our park system. There is a master plan for Breckinridge Park that includes additional facilities and helped put in a bridge to cross the creek. There are no immediate plans for our side (the Natural side) of the park but the Master Plan has a lot in it! Click for more and read the update (from 2003).

Park Photos: View our park photo album contributed by homeowners.

Surround Video: There are a couple of surround videos of our piece of the park. Give them a try:

 

Park Basics

The park's three ponds are stocked with bass, catfish, perch and crappie – but only catch-and-release fishing is allowed. There is also plenty of shade with pavilions and several picnic tables available for picnicking, of note is a beautiful gazebo, located off entrance B.

The park offers small and large jogs, runs and rides that total approximately five miles with extensive plans for growth and integration throughout the metroplex.

Park Amenities:

  • Three sets of playground equipment
  • Three pavilions
  • Picnic tables
  • Five miles of concrete trails suitable for hiking, biking, jogging and roller blading
  • Park benches
  • Two lighted softball field


Picnic Table at our park.

Park Information

The multi-year plan for Breckinridge Park will serve the city well, making Breckinridge an even more significant regional park in the state of Texas with multiple purposes and various "nodes" for activities ranging from nature viewing to a lighted amphitheater. There is a very heavy emphasis on preserving natural areas and doing what is necessary to promote native plants and animals in the park. Another metro-plex wide initiative underway in Richardson is the connection of city trail systems from the Frisco and McKinney area, all the way to Lake Ray Hubbard.

The top ten priorities set forth by the surveys, commissions, city council and the Parks & Recreation Department are:

  • Keep the Stern Property for the Park as a future site for a recreation center.
  • Park roads should only serve the park.
  • Keep the west side of the creek natural (The Knolls side).
  • Lighted multi-use area (amphitheater, athletic events, etc.).
  • Internal trails - walking and hiking.
  • Adequate Restrooms.
  • Natural habitat areas for education connecting to Stinson Elementary.
  • Nature center --interpretive/educational facility.
  • More nature trails.
  • Camping areas for organized use.

All of this is a multi-year project with no real time line established yet because bond money that was originally allocated may be redirected and committed funds for the park will be made available later than expected. The near term priorities for the department are:

  • Pavement surface improvements/upgrades of loop road.
  • Continued installation and improvements to the restrooms.
  • Resurface / re-crown the soccer fields (built on landfill).
  • Continue refinement of the parking lots.

Rowlett Creek essentially divides the "developed eastern side from the "natural" western side of the Park, and is too large to cross without a bridge. The Beck Branch is the smaller creek on the west side of the park that parallels Breckinridge Blvd. that is sometime dangerous to cross other than during the dry summer months. There is also an unnamed creek connected to Beck Branch. Click to view a map of the park.

The space between these two creeks is a great place to explore. Special sights include a bridge to nowhere, an old pickup truck, a bird sanctuary, at least one coyote, a tire swing, a small canyon, scores of pecan trees and other great old hardwood trees not seen in many parts of north Texas.

 
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