Russell Creek park

Russell Creek park is a good place to play because I can smell fresh air. It is fun to play with my friends. It is right next to my elementary school and a lot of my friends also come to this park.
I ride my bike and can do laps around the pond. I chase the birds and ducks. I fish but I’m not good at it.

Enjoy when my son’s baseball games are scheduled here. The park is huge and has soccer fields in addition to baseball fields, pavilion, stocked lake and cement paths/​trails connecting everything. Perfect for walkers, runners, bikers and strollers. Bathrooms by park pavillion, as well as in the baseball field area and likely by the soccer fields, too.

Nice park but unfortunately there isn’t any security. Dogs are not allowed at the soccer fields but folks don’t seem to think the rules apply to them. My daughter can’t watch her brother play soccer because she is afraid of dogs. There are pit bulls at the field just hanging around and the owner is in sight. Too bad this park doesn’t have anyone to enforce the rules.

Like much of Plano these days, it is constantly swarming with children. Can’t get a single minute of peace and quiet if you’re out in public. Back in the day at this park you’d have maybe 30 kids max playing on the playground. On a typical day today it feels like a few hundred. And the noise. It hits you the minute you get out of the car. Back in my day you could walk around the lake and enjoy the calm, but now you got people everywhere.
Maybe I’m just getting older, but it feels kind of like the pond is starting to silt up and the edges are sinking in, because the outlet drain also seems a lot lower than before. The other problem is that garbage is much more prevalent nowadays, floating around in the lake and flying across the fields. The lake itself is kind of nice, because it has a surprising amount of «wildlife» you can see. Aside from the usual urban suspects of crows and sparrows, there’s plenty of Mallard ducks but as of late you can see some Tufted ducks too. Swans, geese and egrets pop up occasionally. In the water there’s a surprising number of bass, turtles up foot long, and some rather large snakes too.
You can typically see the fish lazing about in the deep southwest corner of the pond just south of that concrete retaining wall, along with the larger turtles. Smaller turtles can usually be seen poking their heads out near the shallower edges along parts of the east and northeast edges or sitting on the water outlet. The giant snakes are usually hiding in the far north corner amongst the grasses. When you walk up they’ll usually slither into the water. Occasionally the snakes consume small children, but that usually only happens a few times a year.
Could’ve been a ⁵⁄₅ if there were a few hundred less kids there on an average day.

Beautiful park for running and biking… there are also soccer fields galore! On Saturday mornings it will be packed. Be careful around here with the traffic. It’s great for families or gatherings for sure. It’s fun to run around the area though and explore the different neighborhoods! I’d say come and check it out if you live in the area. There are also lots of water fountains and restrooms if you need to make a pit stop.

Rating restaurants seems to be a lot easier than rating parks since I haven’t visited a wide variety of parks around here, but this place is pretty nice.
I come here almost every Sunday to play basketball with some family friends (they have a full court). Granted it’s not the best and most up to date but I’m grateful that it even exists. There’s a nice jogging path around a small pond so it has a fairly nice scenery. Alongside the pond are trees that were planted in memory of loved ones (as indicated by the plaques on each tree).
There’s usually families riding bikes, playing on the playground, small group of people doing meditation, people just relaxing on the picnic tables, etc. Overall I think it’s a nice place to take your kids to and just be outdoors. There’s a big area of grass to play sports with the little ones. There are fields that are usually taken up by different sporting activities when the weather was warmer. Not sure if those fields are accessible to the public when it’s not occupied.
I also like that they have a huge parking lot so there are plenty of parking spots. The park is pretty clean for the most part. The bathrooms at times are not very clean, but I feel that the responsibility is also in the hands of the people that go there. It’s a free facility so we should be able to pick up after ourselves.

Well maintained fields. We got to play on E and F this weekend for the Plano Kick Off tournament and the fields held up very well. It is also nice to have a fence around the field so most the balls stay close to the sidelines. If someone could turn off the wind out there we’d be perfect.

This isn’t my favorite park, but we do go every once in awhile because it’s pretty close to us. If you go around 6−7pm, the playground is always so crowded. But my daughter still has a nice time. There is a little trail that goes around the lake that’s a nice walk. Although I do agree with the previous reviewer, there is one small portion that smells really bad. It’s a nice walk though and it’s cute the see the ducks in the lake. They have a covered pavilion with an abundance of picnic tables.

I love this park. Best place to go for a stroll with family and pets in Plano. I sometimes jog around the lake, its a great experience. Its nice to see the place filled with kids & pets esp. in the evenings. The park is well maintained, so far I haven’t stepped on any poop, so kudos to everyone walking their pets here! There are many ducks in the lake, and its fun to watch them. I’ve seen storks too. There is a certain part of the lake, that smells real bad at times.

This is a big park with several sports fields. We however only tried the playground.
It’s on the edge of the park next to the pond.
It’s one large structure with climbing equipment, slides and monkey bars. Next to it are some swing. All of it is surrounded by gravel.
There’s not a lot of variety, but it does have a little bit for smaller and a little for older kids, so both my 6 year old and my 21 months old enjoyed it.
So it’s nice, but there are better playgrounds around.

These soccer fields deserve 4 stars. I play soccer and these are some of the nicest rec fields in Plano. Fields are well marked. Also saw some cricket playing for those that have interest. Nice restrooms, concessions.