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Croom Park 1

Croom Park 1 is a neighborhood park located in west Wharton off Old Land City Road (FM 3012). The park includes a playground area with a variety of equipment including a playscape, swings, monkey bars, and a merry-go-round. The playground area includes picnic tables (covered and uncovered) and BBQ grills for passive recreation. The park includes four ball fields with supporting facilities such as dugouts and batting cage, and two bathrooms.

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Croom Park 2

Croom Park 2 is a neighborhood park located in central-north Wharton off North Alabama Road. The park includes two basketball courts and a playground area with a variety of equipment including a playscape, swings, a slide, a see-saw, and monkey bars. The playground area includes picnic tables (covered and uncovered) and BBQ grills for passive recreation, and 2 bathrooms.

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Dinosaur Park

Marked by a life-size dinosaur at the entrance, Dinosaur Park is a neighborhood park located in south-central Wharton east of South Richmond Road along the Colorado River (see Figure 11D). The park includes a basketball court and playground area with a variety of equipment including two playscapes, swings, and monkey bars. The playground area includes picnic tables (covered) for passive recreation. A sidewalk leads into the park from Colorado Street and connects with a .016-mile concrete path that encircles the park’s basketball court. A second sidewalk extends from the park path and runs under the Colorado Street Bridge (I—59) toward Riverfront Park. Dinosaur Park does not have restrooms.

Dinosaur Park is also home to local non-profit Hesed House, which provides an array of services such as mental health counseling, yoga, meditation, and art classes, as well as hosts a community garden. More information about Hesed House can be found here.

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Guadalupe Park

Guadalupe Park is a neighborhood park located in west Wharton at the intersection of North Sheppard Street and West Caney Street. The park includes a basketball court and a playground area with a variety of equipment including a playscape, a merry-go-round, monkey bars, springs riders, and several swings, as well as picnic tables (covered), benches, BBQ grills for passive recreation, and restrooms.

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Harris Park

Harris Park is a neighborhood park located in west Wharton south of Martin Luther King Boulevard on Camelia Avenue. The park includes a ball field and two basketball courts, as well as a playground. The playground area includes two playscapes, a merry-go-round, jungle-gyms, a see-saw, several swings, picnic tables (covered and uncovered), BBQ grills, and restrooms.

Harris Park is also home to the local youth soccer league, more information on area sports can be found here: (link to recreation page)

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Mayfair Park

Mayfair Park is a neighborhood park located in central Wharton just north of the intersection of North Alabama Road and the Santa Fe Trail. The developed portion of the park includes a ball field, a picnic table, and a chin up bar. The ball field at Mayfair Park includes a fence and a backstop.

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Pleasure Park

Pleasure Park is a neighborhood park located in north Wharton at the end of North Walnut Street. The park includes a ball field with several bleachers permitting both active and passive recreation. The park also has a playground area with swings, a slide, and monkey bars, as well as picnic tables (uncovered), BBQ grills, and two restrooms.

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Riverfront Park

Riverfront Park is a neighborhood park located in south-central Wharton. The park runs along ½-mile of the Colorado River’s north shore. Park amenities include a 0.4-mile path (concrete and dirt/sand) for walking/running; a workout area with wood workout equipment; a basketball court; a playground with a playscape and swings; and facilities for passive recreation including picnic tables (covered and uncovered), park benches, BBQ grills, and two restrooms.

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Santa Fe Trail

The Santa Fe Trail is constructed along a section of the abandoned Santa Fe Railroad in central Wharton. The park features mostly linear, 0.8-mile, asphalt trail. Several north-south road connections cross the trail but intersections include crosswalks and supporting signage. The trail includes decorative lighting, numerous trees, and four small pavilions with benches for rest and/or passive recreation. Several benches surround a fountain near the western trail entrance.

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Train Depot

The Train Depot is a neighborhood park located in central Wharton at the intersection of East Milam Street and South Sunset Street. The park consists of a winding, 0.1-mile path lined with trees and benches and illuminated by decorative lighting at night. Further seating surrounds the front of the former Southern Pacific Railroad Depot building in the park’s center. Originally constructed in 1912, over $1 million dollars in restoration projects have returned the depot to its former appearance when, over a century ago, it served as a key social and transport hub. The depot building is included on the National Register of Historic Places and is open on Saturdays for tours.

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Wharton Municipal Pool

Wharton’s municipal swimming pool is a public pool located at the corner of E Belle and Jr. College Blvd. The pool season typically runs from June thru August, and often includes opportunities for swim aerobics classes and swim lessons. For more information about the City pool, click here!