Gateway Park Turned Former Treatment-Plant Land Into 791 Acres of River Green

Gateway Park began in 1979, when Fort Worth set aside 160 acres along the Trinity River on the east side. Part of the site had been used by the Riverside sewage treatment plant, so a large river park started on land few people would have pictured as a regional destination.

Later purchases, donations, and an easement with TRWD expanded the park to 791.5 acres. The city calls it Fort Worth's only metropolitan park. Ball fields, trails, disc golf, wooded river ground, and Fort Woof, the city's first off-leash dog park, now share the space.

Flooding can change trail conditions, so the city page carries the current notice. The larger story is a local reversal: treatment-plant land became the east side's broadest stretch of public river green.