• Gateway Park is Fort Worth’s only metropolitan park.
• Gateway Park sees 600,000 park visits annually.
• Gateway Park is projected to draw 2.6M visitors annually once the 2024 Master Plan is fully implemented.
• Gateway Park is Fort Worth’s only metropolitan park.
• Gateway Park sees as many visits annually as the Fort Worth Botanic Garden.
• Gateway Park has been called one of the “BIG FOUR” in the Fort Worth parks system, along with the Fort Worth Zoo, Fort Worth Botanic Garden and the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge.
• Gateway Park is called the “Central Park” of Fort Worth by Mayor Mattie Parker.
• Gateway Park is larger than more than thirty Texas state parks.
• Gateway Park is just slightly smaller than New York’s Central Park.
• Gateway Park is more than two miles long.
• Sorted by smallest to largest, half of Fort Worth’s city parks would fit inside Gateway Park—with room left for Trinity Park.
• Gateway Park spans parts of two ZIP codes.
• Gateway Park was the inspiration for the trails system we enjoy today along the Trinity River.
• Some of the few natural portions of the Trinity River in Fort Worth run through Gateway Park.
• The Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train opened Gateway Park to the public in 1986. In addition to the human participants who spent the night, there were 137 wagons and 620 horses.
• Football scenes for 12 Mighty Orphans starring Robert Duvall and Martin Sheen were filmed in Gateway Park in 2019.
• Gateway Park’s master plan will require $170M to complete (in 2024 dollars).
• About 50% of Gateway Park is yet to be developed.
• Mountain biking and disc golf are popular activities in Gateway Park.
• Fort Woof in Gateway Park was the city’s first off-leash dog park, garnering national attention.
• The 2008 US Women’s Olympic softball team played a game at Gateway Park with 6,300 in attendance.
• Gateway Park’s “Riverside oxbow” on the Trinity River is essential to the completion of the Panther Island flood control project.
