Reunion Arena was the venue where the Dallas Sidekicks, a former team of the Major Indoor Soccer League, used to play., The Deja Blue Arena in Frisco is the playing arena for the Texas Tornado, three-time defending champions of the North American Hockey League.
The Dallas Harlequins of the USA Rugby Super League, together with the Frisco Rough Riders of Minor League Baseball in Frisco are the other teams in the Dallas area .
A major feature of Sports and Recreation in Dallas is that there are 406 parks on 21,000 acres of parkland in the the city of Dallas that are quite well maintained. The most prominent park of Dallas is the Fair Park spread over an area of 260 acre or 1.05 square kilometers. Fair Park was initially developed for hosting the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936. The Dallas Zoo which is the biggest of all Texas zoos and was the first zoo of the state is located in Dallas and covers an area of 95 acres or .38 square kilometers. This famed Dallas Zoo was inaugurated in 1888.
The parks of Dallas have 17 separate lakes, that includes White Rock and Bachman lakes, covering a total of 4,400 acres or 17.81 square km. The city is crisscrossed by 61.6 miles or 99.1 km of bike as well as jogging courses, that consists of the Katy Trail, and encompasses nearly 47 community and neighborhood centers as part of Sports and Recreation in Dallas, 276 sports fields, 60 swimming pools, 232 playgrounds, 173 basketball courts, 112 volleyball courts, 126 play slabs, 258 neighborhood tennis courts, 258 picnic areas, six 18-hole golf courses, two driving ranges, and 477 athletic fields.
Hurricane Harbor, a water park, that attracts a sizable number of visitors is also located in Dallas.
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