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Dallas, TX: Cedar Breaks Trail, Cedar Ridge Preserve

Hike the tallest hills in Dallas.

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“This nature area in Dallas’s southern suburbs features, literally, our city’s only hills,” says Bill Greer, the outings committee chair of the Dallas Sierra Club. Link the Cattail and Cedar Break Trails for a short, but surprisingly steep, 200-foot climb along a cedar shaded three-mile lollipop.

Miles from city center: 16

Waypoints

Parking

Location: 32.63865, -96.958452

Trailheads

Location: 32.637817, -96.959104

Pick up the Cattail Trail here.

Highpoint

Location: 32.625229, -96.96707

Reach the relatively insane altitude of 750 feet in this pine covered bluff.

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