Showing posts with label Anderson Bonner Park White Rock Creek Trail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anderson Bonner Park White Rock Creek Trail. Show all posts

Thursday, February 16, 2023

A Very Interesting Historical Marker to a park in North Dallas

 Yesterday, I walked the White Rock Creek Trail from Forest Lane to the LBJ Expressway on the west side of the Dallas High 5 Project. Over the years, I have long enjoyed the flowing waters that cut their way through the chalk cliff banks.

                                    Foot bridge crosses over onto the second large soccer field
                       Markers on the White Rock Creek Trail from Alpha Road to White Rock Lake
vein that runs through the northern geography of North Texas. I have seen boulders fall from the cliffs the size of a small van into the White Rock Creek that flows as part of the normal watershed. 

A couple of years ago, part of the trail had to be closed as the banks were shored up before the trail could be reopened. Yesterday was the first time that I had a chance where I could see the work that had been done. As I passed along the street, Park Central, I could see some major changes going on. Having said that, here, the images will explain a lot.

  Honor to the former land owner that is now named in his honor as a city park: Anderson Bonner
                                                     The State of Texas Historical Marker
                                            The rapids that flow through this part of the park.
 

                The Rebuild of the Trails Bank that had closed the park trail for a fairly long time.The image below is just a bit up stream from the picture above. This seems to be more stable at the point.

It All Started in the wee hours of May 28th when 80 MPH winds was tossing everything against the side of my house.

 Those winds were substained for well over 40 minutes. The results were trees everywhere down or large branches broken off. One of my bus ro...