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Bear Creek Pioneers Park is a 2,154-acre (8.72 km 2) park located in the U.S. city of Houston, Texas, at 3535 War Memorial Drive. [1] It is sometimes called "Harris County Bear Creek Park", or simply "Bear Creek Park."
Dwight D. Eisenhower Park is a park located in Harris County, Texas on the south coast of Lake Houston. It is owned and managed by Harris County Precinct One, which acquired the park from the City of Houston in 1995. [1]
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department acquired the reservoir in 1952 to provide a refuge for migratory waterfowl, a public fishing lake and a fish hatchery. It opened in 1955 as the Sheldon Wildlife Management Area. The hatchery closed in 1975, and the land began to revert naturally to forest, ponds and marshes.
Terry Hershey Park is a county park that runs parallel to a roughly 6-mile (9.7 km) stretch of the Buffalo Bayou in western Houston, Texas.The park is named after Terry Hershey, a conservationist who campaigned to keep the banks of Buffalo Bayou from being paved.
Main Entrance to Sam Houston Park The Old Place, the oldest remaining structure in Harris County, Texas The Kellum-Noble House is a Historic American Building in Sam Houston Park. Sam Houston Park is an urban park located in downtown Houston, Texas, United States, dedicated to the buildings and culture of Houston's past.
Alief (/ ˈ eɪ l iː f / AY-leef) is a working-class suburb in Southwest Harris County, Texas, United States. Most of Alief is within the city limits of Houston, while a portion of the community is in unincorporated Harris County. [3] First settled in 1894 as a rural farm community, Alief experienced rapid population growth in the 1970s and 1980s.
George Bush Park is a county park in Houston, Texas, United States, located on the far west side of the city.Situated entirely within Barker Reservoir, a large flood control structure, the park covers 7,800 acres (32 km 2), most of which is undeveloped forest used for the storage of floodwater. [2]
Memorial Park, a municipal park in Houston, Texas, is one of the largest urban parks in the United States. Opened 101 years ago in 1924, the park covers approximately 1,466 acres (5.9 km 2 ) mostly inside the 610 Loop , across from the neighborhood of Memorial .