Originally Posted By: hikermor
I spent my childhood in Dallas and I yearned for the outdoors

Did you visit the Dallas Nature Center, renamed Cedar Ridge Preserve?

http://cedarhilltx.com/1700/Cedar-Ridge-Nature-Preserve

http://www.dallascounty.org/department/plandev/locations/19-escarpment.php

http://www.dallasparks.org/217/Cedar-Ridge-Preserve

Jeanette Isabelle
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I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism. -- Wednesday Adams, Wednesday