Rolling Hills Park is in southeast Fort Worth and is sited between the former U.S. Narcotics Farm and Tarrant County College South Campus. The park was acquired in 1971, the same year that the Narcotics Farm was closed and turned over to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons for use as a Federal Correction Center and the nation’s first co-ed minimum security prison was established there. The park contains approximately 207 acres and takes its name from an adjacent residential development.
To the north of the main park and bordered by O.D. Wyatt High School on the west and the correctional center on the east is the Rolling Hills Ball Park. In 1978, the City entered into a joint development agreement with the Fort Worth ISD for the development of recreational facilities and this ball park serves this purpose. Currently it is dedicated to the Rolling Hills Soccer Complex. In the late 1990s, a master plan was developed for a multi-field soccer complex in the park. The complex was meant to counter city-wide deficiencies in the number of available soccer fields. Work began on the renovation of existing soccer fields and the construction of new ones in 2000. Additional work on the soccer fields and parking lot were undertaken in 2009. The park also contains tennis courts.
The west side of the park is devoted to the 71-acre Rolling Hills Tree Farm. Here, City staff grow trees from seed and tend to them for as many as eight years before they find a permanent home. There can be as many as 8,000 to 10,000 trees on the farm at any one time. Typically, the City gives away as many as 1,600 trees a year—free of charge—through two programs. With the Neighborhood Tree Planting Program, the farm works with a volunteer coordinator and up to 75 volunteers within a specific neighborhood that is interested in receiving trees. The forester selects optimal locations between the curb and the sidewalk and works with the neighborhood coordinator to schedule delivery of trees in five-gallon containers. Residents are given care instructions for the trees. The second program is the Tree Grant Program. These trees are ball-and-burlap trees that are given to homeowner associations for planting in parks or medians. Groups may receive 80-100 large trees in a single season.
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