Friends of Piedmont Ridge Overview & Trails

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Friends of Piedmont Ridge (FoP)

Origin Story

FoP was formed in July 2024 after being featured as a chapter of Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth. 

The not-for-profit group is dedicated to restoring Piedmont Ridge trails, created in 2001-’03 by Groundwork Dallas (now Greenspace Dallas), to their former glory.

The trails are located in southeast Dallas, west of Jim Miller between Scyene and Bruton, in the northern end of the Great Trinity Forest. 

Honored to operate under a Beautification Agreement with Dallas Park & Recreation.

Our Trail Work
We maintain these Piedmont Ridge trails:

Between Scyene & Keeton Golf Course Clubhouse

Trailhead: 2725 N Jim Miller Rd, Dallas, TX 75227 (baseball field parking lot)

  • Lacywood Overlook Trail, Scyene Overlook Trail, Cedar Loop, Scyene Ramble and Scyene Shortcut West, Renda Meadow and Scyene Shortcut East, Black Walnut Trail (in progress) + upper White Rock Bluffs Trail

 

West of the DART Tracks & North of the Clubhouse

Trailhead: 2323 N Jim Miller Rd, Dallas, TX 75227 (Grover Keeton Golf Course parking lot, park in the back rows by the wooden kiosk next to the forest.) 

  • JJ Beeman Trail, BOP [Big Old Pecan]Trail (in planning) 

 

Between Keeton Golf Course Entry Road & Bruton

Trailhead: 2323 N Jim Miller Rd, Dallas, TX 75227 (Grover Keeton Golf Course parking lot, park in the back row close to entry road.)

  • Piedmont Ridge Trail, Sidewinder Trails + upper and middle White Rock Bluffs Trail
Also creating new trails as approved by Dallas Park & Recreation. 
Finding Our Trails

Use the Sweep trail GPS app to always know where you are on the trails. Learn more and download here:

FoP Associates
Proud to support and cooperate with the ongoing construction of the White Rock Bluffs Trail, The Loop Dallas’s first soft-surface multi-use transit trail linking the Lawnview DART Station and Lake June DART Station. Start at one station, hike or bike the trail, and take the train back.
We are honored to have assisted with Piedmont Ridge’s placement (as White Rock Bluffs) on the National Register of Historic Places as a Traditional Cultural Place of the Comanche.
Keep in Touch

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.

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