Our area is blessed with many public and private assests available to the public. This web site strives to promote those assets and this page reminds all of us of those we may take for granted or not know exists.

Cultural Assets - Go to our section of this site called Culture 1960 for links to and information about our theatres, visual arts, galleries and musical performances.

Parks and Green Space - We have many beautiful trees, streams, and plants in our parks and private green spaces. We are blessed with community leaders that have for years foreseen the value of parks for playing games and to create quiet settings for the enjoyment of our creator’s art and have created and maintain expansive, well equipped park spaces. Several of our major parks are:

• Meyer Park is a 286-acre facility with 16 unlighted soccer fields, ten lighted soccer fields, two unlighted softball fields, a basketball court, barbecue pavilion, gazebo, paved trails, nature trails, duck pond, a three-acre fishing lake, picnic tables, barbecue grills, two age-specific playgrounds, and rest room facilities.
• Collins Park is a 55-acre facility with five lighted softball fields, four lighted baseball fields, one unlighted soccer field, one lighted basketball pavilion, one sand volleyball court, two playgrounds, a skate park, an amphitheater, nature trails, picnic tables, barbecue grills, and rest room facilities.
• Klein Park is a seven-acre facility with four lighted ball fields and rest room facilities.
• Matzke Park , a 20-acre facility, began as a joint development project between Harris County Precinct 4 and the Association for Better Community Schools (ABCS). Precinct 4 has completed the first phase development that includes a multiuse trail with water fountains, one parking lot, a rest room facility, four soccer fields and one cricket field, tree plantings, and fencing along Grant Road. This park is a great example of a public/private partnership.

Connecting Trails - Like the streets that connect our performance houses and art studios there is a concerted effort to connect our parks with trails along Cypress Creek and its tributaries. Currently, Harris County Precinct 4 is planning trail development that will connect Meyer Park and Collins Park. A $10,000 grant from Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) to the Cypress Creek Flood Control Coalition (CCFCC) helped fund this section of the development, which will be the first completed piece of the Cypress Creek Greenway.

• Cypress Creek Greenway - Harris County, Precinct 4, is creating connectivity along Cypress Creek and Little Cypress Creek. The future Cypress Creek Greenway will connect a series of parks that will stretch from west of Hwy. 290 to the east where it will connect with the Spring Creek Greenway at Jesse H. Jones Park & Nature Center near Hwy. 59.
  
• The Faulkey Gully Hike & Bike Trail extends from Lakewood Forest Drive to Guernsey Road and accommodates hikers, bicyclists, strollers, wheelchairs, and scooters.  
• Spring Creek Greenway - The Spring Creek Greenway is the first piece of a planned larger Houston Wilderness regional trail system. This landmark project is located between US Hwy. 59 and FM 2978 approximately 25 miles north of downtown Houston. The 33-mile long Greenway will connect and protect up to 12,000 acres of forest, on both sides of the creek. Project goals include preservation, restoration, recreation and education about this biologically diverse ecosystem and aims to create a cornerstone of linear connected ecotourism opportunities.
• Precinct 4 is looking at potential connectivity of mountain bike trails going east out of Collins Park over Spring Gully and into property owned by Harris County Flood Control District near T.C. Jester Road. The entire right-of-way is currently owned in fee by the Harris County Flood Control District. Click here to read more and get the latest update.