{"id":587,"date":"2025-07-22T07:29:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thingstodoindallasthisweekend.com\/?p=587"},"modified":"2026-06-16T10:05:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:05:50","slug":"visit-cedar-hill-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funthingstodoin.us\/dallas-tx\/visit-cedar-hill-state-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit Cedar Hill State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CedarCedar Hill State Park<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cedar Hill State Park is located on FM 1382 and the eastern shore of Joe Pool Lake in Cedar Hill, Texas, ten miles southwest of Dallas. The park was acquired in 1982 and was opened in 1991. Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n

Area: 2.853 sq miles (7.39 km\u00b2)
\nAddress: 1570 Farm to Market 1382, Cedar Hill, TX 75104
\nHours: 6:00 am\u201310:00 pm Daily
\nPhone: (972) 291-3900<\/p>\n

Entrance Fees: Adult (Day Use Only) Per person 13 years and older – $7 daily
\nAdult (Overnight) – $5 daily
\nChild 12 Years and Under – FREE<\/p>\n

Texas State Parks Pass: You and your guests can enjoy unlimited visits to more than 90 State Parks, and enter without paying the daily entrance fee. Receive discounts on camping, park store merchandise, equipment rental discounts, eligibility for other specials. – $70 per year<\/p>\n

The park is refuge to five native tallgrass prairie remnants that are federally listed as endangered. The tallgrass prairie remnants are the most important natural resource in the park. These small remnant prairies are dominated by Indian grass, little bluestem, big bluestem, sideoats gama, switchgrass and many other native grasses. Other plants of interest in the prairie land include rosin-weed, old plainsman, wand milkweed, antelope-horn milkweed, celestials, spiderwort, sensitive briar, purple coneflower, bluebell, blue sage, fleabane, ladies’-tresses, iron weed, Engleman daisy, maximilian sunflower, downy paintbrush, heath aster, trout lily, standing cypress, eryngo and others. Eastern gamma grass was reintroduced by park staff in selected areas, as well as meadow pinks. The Cedar Hill area is unique in that historically it is where two climax ecosystems converge.<\/p>\n