Sledding in Texas Series LbNA #31244
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | May 24, 2007 |
| Location: | Turner Park |
| City: | Grand Prairie |
| County: | Dallas |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Planted by: | Wag Time  |
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| Found by: | Wag Time (2) |
| Last found: | Mar 14, 2012 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFOa |
| Last edited: | Dec 14, 2015 |
**Both boxes have been replaced as of 3/17/12.**
When I was around 7 years old, we had a big snow storm in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Not ice, not hail, not freezing rain…honest-to-goodness SNOW, and a lot of it. It was the prettiest thing I had ever seen, and along with the neighborhood kids, I couldn’t wait to get out in it and have some fun. I had a 6-foot tall snowman in my front yard! My parents and some of the neighbors gathered up a bunch of us kids and we headed down to Turner Park – home of the biggest hills around. We put patio furniture cushions into big trash bags and used them for sleds (because nobody in Texas owns a real sled). We took off down the big hills of this park and played until we couldn’t feel our fingers anymore. The mothers had brought hot cocoa in thermos bottles and made us take breaks in the warm vehicles, and we spent the day playing on the hills.
Turner Park is located on Beltline Road, just south of I-30 in Grand Prairie. From south-bound Beltline Road, turn right on Tarrant Road, in front of the large stone “Texas” marker on the hill. Circle around the park and take the second left into the park just before the ball field. After the ball field, look for the playground on the right. Continue down the road to the right across a bridge, and pull into a small parking area on the left at Frisbee golf basket #5 (before reaching the white building on the right).
1) Pull Me, Daddy!
Head down the hill toward the creek and cross over the metal footbridge. Look to the right for a picnic table and Frisbee golf marker #10. As you pass the picnic table and go toward a concrete slab and another metal footbridge, you will see a tree laying across creek bank. Between its base and a left-leaning hardwood is a viney bush. Go toward the creek between the bush and the bigger tree. The pouch is hanging inside that bush. There is ground-level poison ivy in this area, but I did not see any growing up the trees or in/on the bush where the pouch is located.
2) Going Solo!
Go back toward the clearing but do not cross back over the footbridge. Walk away from the picnic table and up the small hill and look for a Frisbee golf basket and a stand of trees with a cedar on its corner. Pass the Frisbee golf basket and follow the path as it curves slightly to the right. You will have trees on your right, the creek on your left, and a concrete culvert up ahead. Look for a hardwood on the right with a red arrow painted on it. Face the arrow. To the right is a small hardwood that curves to the right and is surrounded by vines. The pouch is hanging in the vines on the back side. Watch out for poison ivy in this area as well.
When I was around 7 years old, we had a big snow storm in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Not ice, not hail, not freezing rain…honest-to-goodness SNOW, and a lot of it. It was the prettiest thing I had ever seen, and along with the neighborhood kids, I couldn’t wait to get out in it and have some fun. I had a 6-foot tall snowman in my front yard! My parents and some of the neighbors gathered up a bunch of us kids and we headed down to Turner Park – home of the biggest hills around. We put patio furniture cushions into big trash bags and used them for sleds (because nobody in Texas owns a real sled). We took off down the big hills of this park and played until we couldn’t feel our fingers anymore. The mothers had brought hot cocoa in thermos bottles and made us take breaks in the warm vehicles, and we spent the day playing on the hills.
Turner Park is located on Beltline Road, just south of I-30 in Grand Prairie. From south-bound Beltline Road, turn right on Tarrant Road, in front of the large stone “Texas” marker on the hill. Circle around the park and take the second left into the park just before the ball field. After the ball field, look for the playground on the right. Continue down the road to the right across a bridge, and pull into a small parking area on the left at Frisbee golf basket #5 (before reaching the white building on the right).
1) Pull Me, Daddy!
Head down the hill toward the creek and cross over the metal footbridge. Look to the right for a picnic table and Frisbee golf marker #10. As you pass the picnic table and go toward a concrete slab and another metal footbridge, you will see a tree laying across creek bank. Between its base and a left-leaning hardwood is a viney bush. Go toward the creek between the bush and the bigger tree. The pouch is hanging inside that bush. There is ground-level poison ivy in this area, but I did not see any growing up the trees or in/on the bush where the pouch is located.
2) Going Solo!
Go back toward the clearing but do not cross back over the footbridge. Walk away from the picnic table and up the small hill and look for a Frisbee golf basket and a stand of trees with a cedar on its corner. Pass the Frisbee golf basket and follow the path as it curves slightly to the right. You will have trees on your right, the creek on your left, and a concrete culvert up ahead. Look for a hardwood on the right with a red arrow painted on it. Face the arrow. To the right is a small hardwood that curves to the right and is surrounded by vines. The pouch is hanging in the vines on the back side. Watch out for poison ivy in this area as well.