Northwest Community Park, Fort Worth, Texas

Northwest Community Park is the fifth largest park in Fort Worth. It is located in northwest Fort Worth and has two entrances off Blue Mound Road: one for the sports complex and one for the south side of the lake.

The park has a mix of bottomland hardwoods along the creek and edges of the lake, with upland Fort Worth Prairie species in pockets (little bluestem, big bluestem, indiangrass, eastern gamagrass, switchgrass, white rosinweed, giant blue sage, prairie verbena, pale yucca, wand milkweed, Englemann daisy, antelopehorns, foxglove, prairie acacia, Drummond’s skullcap, prairie phlox, Texas prairie parsley, mealy blue sage, inland ceanothus, Texas sage, bluejacket, Barbara’s buttons, hairy ruellia, wild bergamot). Most of the upland is degraded from past grazing. Where the sports fields are now, there was a hayfield that had some native grasses such as Florida paspalum, switchgrass, and eastern gamagrass. Along the margins of the lake are some wetland species.

The park has a good diversity of wildlife from fish and aquatic species, to mammals, neotropical migratory birds, and an abundance of insects. You can find more at the iNaturalist link under the “Related information” section.