Summary
Organization name
Friends of Northaven Trail
Causes
Parks and Greenspaces
Operating Budget
Less than $100,000
Counties Served
Dallas
Address
PO Box 670325Dallas, TX 75367
Friends of Northaven Trail
A nonprofit organization
1
match
Live
$43,918 raised by 116 donors
44% complete
$100,000 Goal
About
'24 Results
The Northaven Trail is a nine-mile commuter and recreational bike and hike trail built and maintained by the Dallas Parks and Recreation Department. The trail runs from Denton Drive to just east of Central Expressway (US75) connecting to the White Rock Creek and Cottonwood Creek trails, with future plans to connect it directly to the SoPac trail.
Friends of the Northaven Trail is a non-profit volunteer organization for the support, maintenance and beautification of the Northaven Trail.
We have 100% board participation in our 2025 Matching Funds Campaign.
OUR NEEDS
The Friends of Northaven Trail are launching the Monarch Match campaign to support a transformational restoration project along the trail between Pensive Drive and Webb Chapel. This newly acquired 9-acre parcel offers a rare opportunity to rewild an urban landscape, creating a thriving native prairie habitat in the heart of North Dallas.
Right now, much of this area is dominated by invasive species such as Bermuda and Johnson grass. With your support, we will replace these with drought-tolerant native grasses and wildflowers that provide year-round beauty, improve soil health, and support pollinators like monarch butterflies. This restoration will also reduce long-term maintenance costs and create a vibrant, living classroom for thousands of trail users, neighbors, and local schools.
Funds raised will go directly toward site preparation, invasive species removal, planting of wildflowers and prairie grasses, temporary irrigation, and ongoing community engagement programs. We are also partnering with the Wildlife Habitat Federation, experts in large-scale native habitat restoration, to ensure success and long-term sustainability.
Thanks to a generous donor, every dollar you give will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $50,000. That means your $100 gift becomes $200, and your $500 gift becomes $1,000—all directly fueling the creation of one of the longest continuous wildflower corridors in Texas.
Together, we can transform this neglected land into a pollinator sanctuary, a natural heritage showcase, and a lasting gift to the Dallas community. Join us in the Monarch Match this North Texas Giving Day and double your impact.
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Mission
Friends of Northaven Trail is a non-profit organization founded to organize community support for the Northaven Trail, to raise private funds for the improvement, beautification, safety and expansion of the Trail.
Needs
We are looking for your support and partnership to maintain and beautify the entire nine miles of the Northaven Trail for walks, runs, and rides. The wildflowers along the trail provide wonderful aesthetic diversity as well as filter rain runoff and provide shelter and food for butterflies and other pollinators. Your support is what allows these beautification efforts to thrive.
The funds raised from last year's North Texas Giving Day allowed us, for just the second time ever, to have pollination areas along all nine miles of the trail - which we are claiming makes us the longest urban wildflower garden in the United States. For ten straight years, the Friends of Northaven Trail has planted wildflower seeds along the trail. Last year, because of our wonderful donors, we were able to add new varieties of seeds to our seed mix.
Donations from the 2023 North Texas Giving Day also to install a new storage container for our trail supplies on the trail. This has reduced our annual expenses we used to incur at a storage facility. And a beautiful mural was painted on the shipping container by our wonderful volunteers.
Our 2023 fundraising sponsored the installation of a new information kiosk at the new bridge over US 75. We now have six of these installed along the trail which help us keep our trail users up to date about trail news and events.
For a full list of our 2023/24 activities and accomplishments, please see our annual report here: https://northaventrail.org/s/2023-24-Annual-Report.pdf
This year, Friends of Northaven Trail funds will continue supporting our Rewilding Project and continue our Northaven Trail Crew summer internships.
Kevin Sloan Studio, internationally recognized thought leader for rewilded projects, created a Master Plan for North Dallas's Northaven Trail that will be beautiful, nature-rich, educational, and an environmentally friendly inspiration for community conservation efforts and recreation. The Studio plans integrate stands of Blackland prairie grasses and wildflowers, with garden sections to specifically attract butterflies, pollinators, hummingbirds, and migrating songbirds, with accents and ornamental places for friends and neighbors to meet and enjoy the trail. The carefully curated landscape of native plants and ornaments will resemble flowing slices of the original North Texas Blackland prairie, punctuated by ornamental gardens.
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Dallas, TX 75367