White Rock Lake Park -- Dallas TX
N 32° 48.850 W 096° 43.632
14S E 712782 N 3632973
White Rock Lake Park -- a great place to visit when the WPA writers came through, and today.
Waymark Code: WMV1E8
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/07/2017
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The WPA writers must have enjoyed their time in Dallas in the 1930s. They wrote 20 pages on the city in the WPA guide, and added maps, photos, and sketches of the major points of interest, many of which are still enriching the lives of folks in Dallas in the present day (2017).
The waymark coordinates are at south parking lot below the spillway outlet at White Rock Lake..
Blasterz LOVE White Rock Lake -- who knows how many times we have picnicked here, ridden our bikes here, geocached and waymarked here, done girl scout service projects and badges here, and explored here. After a hard rain, the White Rock Spillway (an uncontrolled concrete spillway) is a great place to experience the rushing water, and watch Blue Herons, Snowy Egrets, Kingfishers and cormorants grab unlucky fish who got washed over the spillway. White Rock lake is also home to a large collection of wild green parrots.
From Texas: A Guide to the Loner Star State:
"11. WHITE ROCK LAKE PARK (adm. free), In the extreme north-eastern part of the city between the Northwest Highway and US 67, [page 241] with an area of 2,314 acres, is one of the largest municipal parks in Texas. It extends around the shores of White Rock Lake, covering 1,350 acres, which serves Dallas as a reserve water storage basin. The park offers picnicking, horseback riding, fishing, boating, bathing and aquatic sports, including annual regattas for sailboats and inboard and outboard motor craft. There are several clubhouses, numerous private fishing and boating camps and a municipal bathing beach, fish hatchery and boathouse. The dam, spillway, and emergency filtration plant are at the southern end of the lake; near the northern end an archipelago of small artificial islands is being constructed with silt removed from adjacent marshy inlets. All points along the lake shore are reached from a circular drive."
Book: Texas
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 240-241
Year Originally Published: 1940
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