Nine-hole course and nature area make sense, but these East Dallas parks also need better access
After the park board votes Thursday on the Samuell Grand-Tenison master plan, basics such as sidewalks, trails and crosswalks must not be forgotten.
Erosion from White Rock Creek has taken a toll on the Tenison Glen Golf Course at Samuell Grand Park, so the master plan calls for turning it into a 9-hole course and converting the eastern section into a nature preserve.(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
More of us might embrace Samuell Grand-Tenison as the best parks network in East Dallas if it wasn’t next to impossible for users to find and make our way around its green spaces and if its closest neighbors didn’t risk becoming road kill each time we cross the dragstrips that form its perimeter.