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Paul D. Rushing Park

Type: Trail

Length: 0.71 Mile

Elevation Gain: N/A

Cost: N/A

Rating:

(2.50)1

Difficulty: halfstar

(0.50)

Solitude:

(1.00)

ADA Accessible: Yes

Bikes Allowed: N/A

Dogs Allowed: Yes

Interpretive Guide: No

Address: 9114 Katy Hockley Road

City: Katy

County: Harris

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This exercise path takes you out to the chain-of-lakes area. There are multiple routes you can take. (Photo by Blaze)

The paved asphalt path takes you across several wooden bridges. (Photo by Blaze)

There are platforms for watching wildlife on each one of the interconnected lakes. (Photo by Blaze)

Lots of girls softball fields at this park. (Photo by Blaze)

There is a small gated dog park at the front of the park. (Photo by Blaze)

This is the sign to the entrance of the park off Katy Hockley Road. (Photo by Blaze)

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Nice Walk Around Several Viewing Lakes
By Blaze on 2/23/2013
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Distance: 0.71 Mile Duration: 20 minutes

Paul D. Rushing Park is a nice, large park in Katy that serves a couple of purposes. The front part of the park is for sports and the back part is a wildlife viewing area and exercise path. The front part of the park also offers a small dog park.

For sporting, there are a lot of girls softball fields and several cricket fields. I went on a Saturday and all of the fields were in use.

For exercise and leisure, there are several viewing lakes behind the sporting complex. The exercise path is paved asphalt and goes along, through, and around several chain-of-lakes. This part of the park offers more solitude and each lake has one or more viewing platforms to watch the wildlife inconspicuously. There are viewing portals at different heights for adults, teens and young children. There are no distance markers on the exercise trail and there are several loops you can take.

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