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Breckinridge Park InformationThe 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.
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:
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:
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. 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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