1. Debo Cycle Sports
City: Arlington, TX
Category: Parks & Recreation
Telephone: (817) 557-3326
Address: 4400 Matlock Rd.
Description: This 30-year-old business will sell you bikes and gear or tune up your old bike.
2. Randol Mill Park
City: Arlington, TX
Category: Parks & Recreation
Telephone: (817) 459-5474
Address: 1901 West Randol Mill Rd.
Description: Northwest Arlington’s favorite green space provides tennis and basketball courts, picnic areas, playground, pavilion, softball complex, and a swimming pool. There’s fishing in Randol Mill Pond and pleasant walks to take on the nature trail winding around the pond. Big flowerbeds remain an attraction, too.
3. River Legacy Park
City: Arlington, TX
Category: Parks & Recreation
Address: 701 Northwest Green Oaks Blvd. at Cooper
Description: Covering 1,300 acres along the Trinity River in north Arlington, this green space offers eight miles of paved trails, forest, greenbelt, soccer fields, picnic tables, a meditation area, water fountains, playground, canoe launch, and a pavilion. An unusual find is the Devil’s Cigar, known to exist only in Texas and Japan; the 3-inch-long fungus lives almost forever and makes a hissing sound.
4. Arlington Skatium
City: Arlington, TX
Category: Parks & Recreation
Telephone: (817) 784-6222
Address: 5515 South Cooper St.
Description: A roller-rink open year-round, the facility offers classes, rentals, birthday parties, and other private functions. It’s also the home rink for Dallas Derby Devils roller derby league.