August 2, 2025 | 
Author We’ll be hardening the two sets of newly installed culverts north of Brockdale Park with 60lb sacks of concrete. We’ll need lots of volunteers (all of whose hours will count towards our TPW grant). We’ll need one set of volunteers to unload the concrete bags onto our fleet of UTV’s. Another set of volunteers to unload the UTV’s beside the creeks. And a third set of volunteers to stack the bags to harden the culverts, up- and down-stream. Gloves are needed, and if you’re stacking bags in the creek, you’ll need high boots. We’re talking a lot of bags (100+), so it won’t be easy, but it will be worthwhile.
We’ll also need UTV’s (aka side-by-sides or Gators) to deliver the concrete to creekside, so if you have one that we can use, contact Duke at 214-422-2929.
When – 7am, Saturday, August 23, 2025
Where – meet at the Churchill’s, 1125 Brockdale Park Rd
What to bring – lunch, bug spray, gloves, water (lots), wading boots (if you’ll be in the creek).
I’m not liking the weather forecast for the tonight, so I’m cancelling the workday.
We’ll meet at Natha Ct and head south towards Lucas Rd, trimming and clearing as needed.
When – 9am, Saturday, March 8, 2025
Where – Natha Ct, Lucas
What to bring – Loppers, water, gloves, long sleeves
We’ll meet at Collin Park (tell the gate attendant you are there to work on the Trinity Trail) and trim the trail going north. The Collin Park folks would like us to park at the vault toilet (ugh) – enter the Park through the manned gate, drive south and turn left at the first roadway, the toilet is there on the right).
When – 9am, Saturday Feb 8, 2025
Where – Collin Park
What to bring – loppers, gloves, water
The rain is making me nervous, so we’ll postpone this till Dec 14. Same time and plan.
We’ll meet at Sharon Berryman’s house, load up our new picnic tables and go install them. Need some able-bodied folks to help lift and move the tables.
When – 9am, Saturday, Dec 7 2024
Where – 2 Woodview Ct, Lucas, Tx 75002 (park in the cul-de-sac)
What to bring – gloves, loppers, water for yourself
We’ll convoy from Sharon’s to the access points we’ll use to get on the trail with the tables.
Too much rain on Friday, we’ll find another day.
We’ll be doing trash pickup north of the Highland Park boatramp. We’ll meet at the E. Winningkoff Trailhead and enter the trail at the Welborn gate.
When – Saturday, Oct 5, 2024 at 9am
Where – E Winningkoff trailhead (under the water tower)
What to bring – gloves, long sleeves, water
We’ll meet at the entrance to Brockdale Park and then caravan over to Inspiration, park there, and continue our exploration of the re-routes along the Inspiration section of the trail.
When – 9am, Saturday, June 8, 2024
Where – meet at Brockdale Park Trailhead, we’ll caravan over to a parking spot in Inspiration.
What to bring – Loppers, mud boots (it will be muddy), bug spray, water.
We’ll be looking for re-route options south of Brockdale. We’ll meet at Brockdale Trailhead, and then caravan into Inspiration, park there and get on the trail to do our search.
When – 9am, Saturday, May 11, 2024
Where – Meet at Brockdale Trailhead
What to bring – mud boots, loppers, bug spray.
Too much rain last night, too muddy to go out into the woods. Keep an eye out on our FB page or this website for the rescheduled date.
We’ll finally begin searching for new re-routes south of Brockdale.
When – 9am, Saturday, March 9, 2024
Where – Brockdale Park trailhead
What to bring – Long sleeves, long pants, gloves, water, and loppers (we’ll be off the trail in the woods, hacking our way through them to flag new routes).
