Current ranking based on review analysis and technical signals.
How we chose: 10 places selected by rating and number of reviews. Source — Google Places. Updated 04 August 2026.
At a glance
| # | Place | Score | Reviews | Stands out for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden | ⭐ 9.5 | 27 286 | Editors' pick |
| 2 | Klyde Warren Park | ⭐ 9.5 | 18 817 | — |
| 3 | Cedar Ridge Preserve | ⭐ 9.7 | 5 712 | People's favorite |
| 4 | White Rock Lake Park | ⭐ 9.7 | 5 168 | — |
| 5 | Bachman Lake Park | ⭐ 9.1 | 4 562 | — |
| 6 | Main Street Garden Park | ⭐ 9.1 | 2 482 | — |
| 7 | Trammell Crow Park | ⭐ 9.1 | 2 304 | — |
| 8 | Reverchon Park | ⭐ 9.3 | 1 932 | — |
| 9 | Lake Cliff Park | ⭐ 9.1 | 1 857 | — |
| 10 | Kidd Springs Park | ⭐ 9.3 | 1 687 | — |
Highlights
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Editors' pick:
The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden -
People's favorite:
Cedar Ridge Preserve
Opening hours
Open around the clock: Main Street Garden Park, Reverchon Park.
Open late: Klyde Warren Park, White Rock Lake Park, Bachman Lake Park, Main Street Garden Park, Trammell Crow Park, Reverchon Park, Lake Cliff Park, Kidd Springs Park.
Open early, from 8am or sooner: Klyde Warren Park, Cedar Ridge Preserve, White Rock Lake Park, Bachman Lake Park, Main Street Garden Park, Trammell Crow Park, Reverchon Park, Lake Cliff Park, Kidd Springs Park.
Check the hours before you set out — they shift on holidays and out of season.
Full ranking
1. The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden · ⭐ 9.5
(27286 reviews)
+7 photos
8525 Garland Rd, Dallas, TX 75218, United States
Start with an honest correction: this is not a public park. The Arboretum sits on land owned by the City of Dallas, but it is operated by the non-profit Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Society, it charges admission, it charges separately for parking, and it locks the gates at five in the afternoon. What you get in exchange is 66 acres of relentlessly replanted horticulture on th…
«The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden is one of my family’s favorite places to visit y…»
2. Klyde Warren Park · ⭐ 9.5
(18817 reviews)
+7 photos
2012 Woodall Rodgers Fwy, Dallas, TX 75201, United States
For half a century the Woodall Rodgers Freeway ran in a concrete trench that cut downtown Dallas away from Uptown as cleanly as a moat. In October 2012 the city stopped trying to route people around the trench and simply roofed it. Klyde Warren Park is a little over five acres of lawn, trees, fountains and playgrounds resting on more than three hundred pre-stressed concrete box…
3. Cedar Ridge Preserve · ⭐ 9.7
(5712 reviews)
+7 photos
7171 Mountain Creek Pkwy, Dallas, TX 75249, United States
Another honest correction before anything else: Cedar Ridge is not a park in the usual sense and does not behave like one. It is a nature preserve of about 633 acres, owned by the City of Dallas Park and Recreation Department but managed under contract by Audubon Dallas since April 2003. There are no ball fields, no pavilions to rent, no bicycles, no jogging strollers and no Mo…
4. White Rock Lake Park · ⭐ 9.7
(5168 reviews)
+7 photos
E Lawther Dr, Dallas, TX 75218, United States
Dallas built this lake because it was thirsty, not because it wanted a park. In 1910 the city bought some 2,292 acres northeast of downtown and dammed White Rock Creek behind an earthen wall 47 feet high and about 2,550 feet along its crest; the reservoir filled in 1911 and began supplying chlorinated drinking water in 1913. Within two decades Dallas had outgrown it entirely, t…
5. Bachman Lake Park · ⭐ 9.1
(4562 reviews)
+7 photos
3500 W Northwest Hwy, Dallas, TX 75220, United States
Bachman Lake is older than every other body of water in this city's park system and it was built for a job it lost more than a century ago. In 1903 Dallas dammed Bachman Branch to create a municipal water supply; the resulting 205-acre lake proved far too small for a city that was growing at speed, and by 1911 the answer was White Rock Lake instead. What Bachman kept was a shor…
6. Main Street Garden Park · ⭐ 9.1
(2482 reviews)
+7 photos
1902 Main St, Dallas, TX 75201, United States
For roughly half a century the Dallas central business district got no new park at all. Main Street Garden broke that run on November 11, 2009, when the city dedicated 1.75 acres carved out of an entire downtown block at the eastern end of the Main Street District. The $17.4 million project was paid for mainly through City of Dallas bond programs approved in 2003 and 2006, and…
7. Trammell Crow Park · ⭐ 9.1
(2304 reviews)
+7 photos
3700 Sylvan Ave, Dallas, TX 75207, United States
Trammell Crow Park is not a landscaped city park in the ordinary sense. It is roughly thirty-two acres of open bottomland lying inside the Dallas Floodway, the engineered channel between two earthen levees that has carried the Trinity River past downtown since the early 1930s. The city classes it as a community park within the Trinity River Greenbelt, and what that means on the…
8. Reverchon Park · ⭐ 9.3
(1932 reviews)
+7 photos
3505 Maple Ave, Dallas, TX 75219, United States
Reverchon Park is the oldest working park in central Dallas and the one with the most layers. The city bought its first thirty-six acres in 1914, on the edge of town, partly to clear a shantytown known as Woodchuck Hill; it opened as Turtle Creek Park and was renamed in 1915 for Julien Reverchon, the French-born botanist who arrived in Dallas County as a teenage colonist and le…
9. Lake Cliff Park · ⭐ 9.1
(1857 reviews)
+7 photos
300 E Colorado Blvd, Dallas, TX 75201, United States
Lake Cliff Park is about forty-five acres of North Oak Cliff wrapped around a sunken lake that holds the downtown skyline on its surface like a photographic plate. It opened on the Fourth of July, 1906, and it did not open as a park at all: it was a private amusement ground built by Charles Mangold and partners who advertised it as the Southwest's greatest playground and claime…
10. Kidd Springs Park · ⭐ 9.3
(1687 reviews)
+7 photos
1003 Cedar Hill Ave, Dallas, TX 75208, United States
Kidd Springs is a working neighborhood park of a little over thirty-one acres in North Oak Cliff, a short walk from the Bishop Arts District — ball fields, courts, a pool, a recreation center — with one entirely unexpected thing folded into it. Behind a gate at one edge lies a Japanese garden, dedicated in 1970, holding three seventeenth-century Edo-period artifacts and a stone…
Questions & answers
Which place tops the ranking? The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden — score 9.5/10 (Editors' pick).
How many places are in the list and how were they chosen? The selection includes 10 places chosen by our editors based on rating and reviews.
What is the average rating in the top? 9.3/10 — average score of 10 places in the list.
Which place has the most reviews? The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden — 27286 visitor reviews.
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Sources: Google ratings and reviews, official websites and social media of the places, other open data. Selection and texts by the dallas-name.com editorial team, August 2026.