Nature

Sustaining the Friends of Piedmont Ridge

Amy Martin
May 6, 2026

Friends of Piedmont Ridge

By 2027, Piedmont Ridge — the nature jewel of Pleasant Grove in southeast Dallas — will feature 10 to 12 miles of hiking trails through the northern Great Trinity Forest and White Rock Bluffs escarpment.

We need your support to keep them in shape and user-friendly. Donate to help sustain a diverse and extensive hiking trail system.

Signage—trailhead: A sizeable trailhead sign is essential for orienting hikers. Piedmont Ridge needs at least four permanent ones, and in some cases a structure to contain them.

Signage—wayfinding: Some of Piedmont Ridge’s trails have twists and turns that can get hikers lost, and others are in areas that can be obscured by floodwater debris. Help us create temporary ones, and ultimately permanent ones, less prone to damage from weather and wildlife.

Volunteer care: Friends of Piedmont Ridge provides insect repellent, poison ivy protection lotion, and drinking water to those who forget their own. We would also like to upgrade our first-aid materials.

DONATE HERE.

Friends of Piedmont Ridge is part of the Friends of the Forest Dallas network, a 501(c)3 nonprofit. Your donations are tax-deductible.

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Amy Martin

Amy Martin is the author of Wild Dallas-Fort Worth: Explore the Amazing Nature of North Texas (https://moonlady.com/amy-martin-selected-to-write-wild-dallas-fort-worth-explore-the-amazing-nature-of-north-texas/), to be released by Timber Press in 2022. She is the North Texas Wild columnist at GreenSourceDFW (https://greensourcedfw.org/) and author of Itchy Business: How to Treat the Poison Ivy and Poison Oak Rash (http://itchy.biz/). She was the senior comedy, magic and cirque critic for TheaterJones, The Aging Hippie columnist for Senior Voice, and the Taoist panel member of the Texas Faith blog of The Dallas Morning News. A journalist for over 40 years, she wrote for Dallas Observer, Dallas Times Herald, Dallas Morning News, Senior Voice, and D magazine, and was contributing editor and columnist for Garbage magazine. She 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.