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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 25 trails and paths
Best trails and paths in Dallas
The 10 most notable trails and paths in Dallas, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Preston Ridge Trail
Preston Ridge Trail, Preston Ridge Trail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.431, percentile 100 of 25
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2
Boulder Park Trail
6600 Pastor Bailey Dr
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.301, percentile 95.83 of 25
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3
Cottonwood Creek - Esperanza Rd Trailhead
Dallas, TX, Cottonwood Crk Trl
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.172, percentile 91.67 of 25
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4
Santa Fe Trestle Trail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.172, percentile 87.5 of 25
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5
Taychas Trail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.172, percentile 83.33 of 25
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6
Santa Fe Trail - Willis Winters Park Trailhead
314 S Glasgow Dr
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.092, percentile 79.17 of 25
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7
Carrollton Blue Trail
1971-1979 E Peters Colony Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.092, percentile 75 of 25
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8
The Katy Trail
3102 Maple Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.092, percentile 70.83 of 25
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9
White Rock Creek Northwood Park Trailhead
8499 Greenville Ave #206
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.092, percentile 66.67 of 25
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10
Big Cedar Wilderness
5950 Eagle Ford Dr
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.015, percentile 62.5 of 25
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).