The Trinity Trail Preservation Association is sponsoring a “brown bag” ride, June 21st at the Brockdale Park Trailhead in Lucas, TX. Prepare for the heat, pack up a lunch and lots of beverages and arrive in time to ride out by 9 AM. We’ll ride and then share lunch together. Remember to bring your lawn chairs for comfort. Don’t forget your current negative Coggins Certificate for each horse, as state law requires us to check. You can’t enter the park without one. For safety reasons, dogs will not be permitted on the trail. They must remain tied at your trailer in camp. For more information, see the Trinity Trail Preservation Association’s website at
www.trinitytrailriders.org . No RSVP is necessary for this ride as food will not be provided. There will be water for the horses at the trailhead.
Lucas is northeast of Dallas, TX. From Dallas, go north on US 75 to the Bethany Drive exit in Allen and go east. Take Bethany Drive through Allen into Lucas (about 5 miles). Counting the light at the expressway exit, you will go through eleven lights. Bethany Road changes its name to East Lucas Road along the way. At the eleventh light, the road name changes to FM 1378 (Country Club Road). About ˝ mile after the eleventh light, when the road makes a sharp curve, you will see a stop light and the Lucas Food Mart and gas station on your left. Turn left here on FM 3286 and go less than a mile to Brockdale Park Road. It turns off to the right. There is a brown park sign marking the turn. If you get to the bridge over Lake Lavon you have gone too far. Follow Brockdale Park Road around to the trailhead. You will drive through three 90-degree turns. The trailhead is at the 3rd 90-degree turn on the right and is bordered by white pipe fence. If you get to the boat ramp you have gone too far.
TTPA, working with Collin County Parks and Open Space and the Lake Lavon office of the Army Corps of Engineers, has completed an equestrian campground at the southern end of the trail at East Fork Park in Wylie, Texas. Reservations may be made on-line at
www.recreation.gov. Select Equestrian sites, Texas, East Fork, Sites E01 through E11. The East Fork Equestrian campground is about 20 minutes by car and 9 miles by horseback from Brockdale Park.
For more information, call Membership Chairman Ruth Blom at 214-418-4106 or contact her via Email at
frblom@tx.rr.com. To support the trail and get regular delivery of the monthly newsletter, send $25 to Trinity Trail Preservation Association, c/o Pat Martin, 4040 Avion Drive, Wylie, TX 75098.
