Park it

 

 

                                  MELISSA PEREZ, 10

 

 

Downtown Dallas has a number of interesting and unique open parks.

 

With spring coming its time to get outside for fresh air and outdoor activities and Dallas parks are a perfect way to spend your day.

 

Main Street Garden Park located at Main and Hardwood Street a great small park with a great lawn, toddler play area, fountains, Dog Park and it’s even equipped with Wi-Fi. It is not a park where you can recognized right away its surrounded by many buildings. But a park that people may know because it’s a newcomer is Klyde Warren Park.

 

Klyde Warren Park was built above the freeway. The artificial green space was built to connect the Arts District with Uptown. It has a playground for children, fountains, food trucks, free Wi-Fi, Zumba, yoga classes, restaurant and concerts. It is the most popular downtown park usually crowded during the weekends and anytime the weather is nice. The park is very centrally located, surrounded by enormous skyscrapers. At night they have lights on the walkway. The park is famously known for its food trucks, they have variety of food trucks that serve up delicious food. They have a restaurant by the stage.

 

Pioneer plaza is a public area that has plants, trees, and a flowing stream in a natural setting. There’s a re-creation of a cattle drive with longhorns and cowboys on their horses. To complete the scene there is a waterfall, hills and man-made cliffs. On the same grounds there is also a founder’s cemetery and a confederate memorial. Its eye catching to tourist, it’s one of the most places visited. It’s by city hall and the convention center.

 

Recently Dallas wants to turn parking lots into parks and make Downtown Dallas a lot more green spaces. The four places there looking to renovate are Pacific Plaza, West End Plaza, Carpenter Plaza and Harwood Park as well as other locations around the central business district areas.