Bronze Statue of Benjamin Franklin

If one were to assign a personality to the Turtle Creek neighborhood, this elegant yet unpretentious community north of downtown and west of Uptown might be considered the kindly grandfather of Dallas. Turtle Creek played a prominent role in the city's early history and has quite a few stories to tell. Turtle Creek runs alongside a scenic tributary of the Trinity River, starting in Reverchon Park and winding down through the greater Oak Lawn district into the adjacent Highland Park. Turtle Creek comprises approximately 80 city blocks with an unheard of (at least in Dallas) 90 acres of green space. Many grand estates, luxury town homes and modern high-rises have subsequently risen up over the years to claim this urban utopia as their own. Turtle Creek has also become an adopted nickname for the Oak Lawn neighborhood, though never an official one. The nickname also sometimes applies to a spillover of the Uptown area, which has become the official moniker for the area between downtown and Oak Lawn beginning in the 1980s. (In actuality, however, Uptown itself is a part of the Oak Lawn district, as is the Turtle Creek neighborhood.)

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