Lynn Creek Park at Joe Pool Lake — Attraction in Grand Prairie

Low review due to price increase. More to say about overall experience below.

Please pay the $15 for your kids life jacket- too many drownings at ALL lakes. My “big kid” swimmer understands that in a lake, it’s Non-negotiable… even in 1 ft of water.

I have been going here since I was little and have always enjoyed it. That being said, the entry fee price has gone up so high, I can’t visit as often nor can my friends and family. They would make more money if they dropped their prices back down to $10… It’s now at $20 per vehicle and no reentry which is also wild to me considering many people do tend to need to make quick stops at the store for items. Another option, offer cheaper weekday prices. We paid $60 on a third afternoon for our three cars because everyone was coming in from work. Ridiculous!

Areas are clean for the most part. Guest really suck about leaving bottle caps everywhere but that’s about it unless you go on Monday (then it’s dirty from the weekend party crowd - still not horrible though all things considered)

Bathrooms (they are all over the park too) are clean (for a lake park) and stocked. I have always been impressed with that!!!

Sooo many shady spots in the picnic areas that also provide grassy and sandy grounds.

Great playground at the designated swim area.

This park is set up nicely. Be nice to the security!!! They are simply ensuring the park stays beautiful and safe.

Please just lower the entry fee and come up with a friendlier policy. What used to be my “go-to” park is about to not… Grapevine has become the cheaper alternative and offers more technically… just a litter further north than I prefer and it’s not my...

My son likes to go here so do I but one things for sure there is so much trash and glass on the banks of the water and on the beach like areas. So I was thinking that if the park made a deal with the people who come for the day to swim and pay $10 to get in. If they brought back a bag of litter and glass that they picked up while they were there you should get reemberced your ten dollars for helping keep the park cleaned and I'm not talking about there own trash from there day there I'm talking about trash from the water and on the banks of the water. Trash that has been there. Instead of pick in it up and throwing it back down, put it in the bad and recycle it, take it up to the entrance and drop it off when you leave. That way the lake will be cleaner and that will give incentive to the ones who pay $10 to contribute to the parks and it will help people practice on there community service skills. Which I believe more people should do weather it's there community or not. And even if it's not the hole ten dollars and just 5 dollars there reemberced that would be awesome. Just a suggestion. I go there all the time I live in Mansfield and I have to pay ten dollars it sucks because I use to live in grand prairie and get in free but not any more and I always pick up the trash and glass out of the water and off the banks every time. And I would love it if we didn't have to pay 10 every...

They say the lake is beautiful in the fall—quiet, glassy, with fog rolling in thick from the water just after sundown. We arrived late, hoping to catch one last warm evening by the shore. The grills were cold, the air damp, and most of the other families had already packed up. Just us, a few scattered lights across the park, and the endless hush of the lake.

That’s when we saw him.

A small child, maybe six or seven, standing alone near the water’s edge where the mist was thickest. He didn’t move. Didn’t speak. Just stared out across the lake. We assumed he was with someone, until we realized—there were no other cars nearby. No footprints in the damp sand. And… he wasn’t leaving any either.

We called out. No answer. The air turned oddly still. Then he slowly turned to face us—and we saw that his eyes weren’t reflecting light. They were… absorbing it. Like black holes.

We took a step back, and in that split second, he vanished. Just… gone.

No splash. No sound. Only the mist curling in tighter.

A park ranger later told us, half-joking but not really, that folks have seen him before. A boy who drowned decades ago, back when the lake was newly formed. Some say he’s searching for his parents. Others say he’s just part of the lake now.

Either way, when the fog rolls in at Lynn Creek Park, don’t wander too close to the water.

And if you see a child standing alone in the mist…...