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.