past successes

Creating and protecting parkland for Houston

Since its inception, the Houston Parks Board has played an instrumental role in the acquisition of more than 15,000 acres in park land.  Funded in a variety of ways - and located in a variety of areas throughout the city - the Houston Parks Board will continue to work toward the addition of quality park land for the use of all Houstonians.

In June 2005, the Houston Parks Board and the Conservation Fund completed the first step of an ambitious campaign to acquire parkland.  This involved a rapid assessment of every parcel within Houston's Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) to determine the suitability or each as either a new park, a linear park, or expansion of an existing park. 

A few other notable acquisitions the Houston Parks Board been involved in over the years on behalf of the donors are:

Aron Ledet Park, 13 acres

Bay Forest Park, 10 acres

Bay Oaks Park, 10 acres

Boyce Dorian Park, 10 acres

Coolgreen Park, 164 acres

Crooker-Moody Park, 11 acres

Cullen Park, 10,000 acres

Cullinan Park/Long Drive, 44 acres

Cullinan Park/Oyster Creek, 750 acres

Farnsworth Natural Area, 22 acres

Freed Art and Nature Park, 6 acres

Gragg Park Expansion, 15 acres

Halls Bayou Park, 3 acres

Harwin Park, 9 acres

Herman Brown Park, 750 acres

J. T. Trotter Park, 27 acres

Keith-Wiess Park, 500 acres

Schnur Park, 40 acres

Strickland Park and Expansion, 14 acres