Faulkner Park mixes ballfields, sprayground, fishing, and nature trails

Faulkner Park is the everyday, all-ages side of Tyler's parks. It opened in 2001 on land donated by Robert Faulkner, whose name the park carries.

You get picnic areas, restrooms, pavilions, ballfields, batting cages, a playground, tennis, a fishing pond, a sprayground, and a skate park. Behind all of that are about nine miles of nature trails.

That mix makes it more than a ballfield complex. It is a close-to-home place for a game, a splash, a walk, or a ride without leaving south Tyler.