2026 Piedmont Restoration Days

Total
0
Shares
0
0
0
0

2026 Piedmont Restoration Days

 

This is the backbone schedule. There will be occasional extra restoration days, special projects, and urgent response incidents.

We alternate Saturdays and Sundays, so everyone has a chance to come.

Dates and start times are subject to change due to the weather and other issues. Check social media for last-minute changes. Facebook ~ Instagram

Restoration Days

Sept. 19 Sun – 8 to 11 am, please arrive at 7:45 am – working walk: Overlooks – parking #2

Sept. 27 Sun – 8 to 11 am, please arrive at 7:45 am – working walk: Lowland Loop – parking #3

Oct.17 Sat – 9 am to noon, please arrive at 8:45 am: Scyene Overlook – parking #2

Nov. 15 Sun – 9 am to noon, please arrive at 8:45 am: Black Walnut Trail – parking #1

Dec. 20 Sat – 10 am to 1 pm, please arrive at 9:45 am – may be too close to Christmas – parking tba

Starting/Parking Locations – from north to south

#1 – Black Walnut Trail, upper JJ Beeman Trail, upper White Rock Bluffs Trail
3005 Glover Pass at Scyene, Dallas, TX 75227 (Colonial Baptist Church)
Park in spaces closest to Scyene or along Glover.

#2 – Lacywood & Scyene Overlooks Trail, Renda Meadow Trail, upper White Rock Bluffs Trail
2725 N Jim Miller Rd, Dallas, TX 75227
Use the baseball field parking lot. Overflow parking at the soccer field parking lot, one block south.

#3 – Piedmont Ridge Trail, Sidewinder Trails, lower JJ Beeman, middle White Rock Bluffs Trail
2323 N Jim Miller Rd, Dallas, TX 75227
Park in the back rows of the Grover Keeton Golf Course lot, by the wooden kiosk next to the forest.

 Prepare

  • Wear: long pants, work gloves, sturdy shoes
  • Bring: loppers or other cutting implements

    Starting/Parking Locations

from north to south

#1 – Black Walnut Trail. upper JJ Beeman Trail, upper White Rock Bluffs Trail

  • 3005 Glover Pass at Scyene, Dallas, TX 75227 (Colonial Baptist Church)
  • Park in spaces closest to Scyene or along Glover.

#2 – Lacywood & Scyene Overlook Trails, Renda Meadow Trail, upper White Rock Bluffs Trail

  • 2725 N Jim Miller Rd, Dallas, TX 75227
  • Use the baseball field parking lot. Overflow parking at the soccer field parking lot, one block south.

#3 – Piedmont Ridge Trail, Sidewinder Trails, middle White Rock Bluffs Trail, lower JJ Beeman, middle White Rock Bluffs Trail

  • 2323 N Jim Miller Rd, Dallas, TX 75227
  • Park in the Grover Keeton Golf Course parking lot in the back rows by the wooden kiosk next to the forest

Amy Martin is the author of Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature of Dallas-Fort Worth (https://wild-dfw.com/), released by Timber Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, in 2022. She is the senior reporter at Green Source Texas (https://www.greensourcetexas.org/) and author of Itchy Business: Itchy Business: How to Treat the Poison Ivy and Poison Oak Rash, Prevent Exposure and Eradicate the Plant (http://itchy.biz/). ~ . A journalist for over 40 years, Amy covered comedy, music, and eclectic entertainment, as well as news features, for Dallas Observer, Dallas Times Herald, Dallas Morning News, and D magazine, plus a variety of tabloids and monthlies. Her final entertainment foray was as senior comedy, cirque, and magic critic for the online TheaterJones. ~ . As an environmental reporter, Amy was contributing editor and columnist for the Garbage, a national environmental magazine. She had a recycling column and features page called Taking Trash at The Dallas Morning News. ~ . She was The Aging Hippie columnist for Senior Voice, and the Taoist panel member of the Texas Faith blog of The Dallas Morning News. ~ . Amy was known by many in North Texas as the Moonlady for her alternative newservice of 15 years, Moonlady News, and served as creator/producer/promoter of the acclaimed Winter and Summer SolstiCelebrations for 20 years.

You May also Like