Lake Highlands Trail north of Lake Highlands High School. (Photo by Danny Fulgencio)
The Lake Highlands Trail is nice, but it will be part of something much bigger once we figure out how to connect it to the White Rock Creek Trail, which will allow users to travel uninterrupted from our neighborhood south to Fair Park or north to the Richardson trail system, depending on her endurance.
You can read in detail about the Lake Highlands Trail, its challenges, and all of the other trails it eventually will connect to in our October issue, which offers a comprehensive overview of our trails.
At a public meeting Tuesday Oct. 25 from 5:45-7 p.m. at Lake Highlands Recreation Center, 9940 White Rock Trail, Lake Highlands residents have an opportunity to view renderings of new trail connections, including a big reveal of potential north and south links to White Rock Creek Trail and the Dallas trail network. Attendees also will have a chance to offer feedback on forthcoming construction.
A connection to White Rock Creek Trail means connection to Moss Park, also is featured in the October magazine.
From the October print issue:
Phase one of the Lake Highlands Trail, 2 miles of paved path that runs behind Lake Highlands High School, was in the works for 11 years before it opened in 2014. It takes a long time to plan, fund and implement a project, Michael Hellman said at the ribbon cutting ceremony. “The power line corridor adds an extra element that makes it complicated.” Phase two of Lake Highlands Trail, which will link it to the pivotal White Rock Creek Trail, is proving to be even more complicated, though it is funded. Planners have to figure out how to construct the trail through a residential neighborhood (Moss Meadows), and that can be “trickier,” the Park department’s Peter Bratt says. There will be neighborhood input meetings this fall; dates will be posted on advocatemag.com, and city and park officials and neighbors will sort out logistics. District 10 Councilman Adam McGough says three routes are under consideration. He supports one that will not impact the blackland prairie at Harry S. Moss Park, he says, and that incorporating the trail at the Lake Highlands DART station/Town Center will be important.
