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Dean Porter Park
Features
- Children's Museum
- Community Theater
- Costumes of the Americas Museum
- Parking
- Pavilion
- Picnic Tables
- Playground
- Pool
- Resaca
- Restrooms
- Spray Park
- Swimming Pool
- Trails
- Water Boardwalk
If you decide to visit a park or trail, please abide Current Declaration Amended of Local Disaster For Public Health Emergency Order guidelines. Maintain distance--Stay 6 feet away from other people. Avoid mass gathering. No crowds, no groups. Face coverings and masks are recommended.
COB PARD staff will be working to help maintain the standard upkeep, maintenance, stewardship of site facilities.
Thank you for your patience and understanding as we take these measures to prevent the community spread of COVID-19. Stay safe, stay healthy.
Cameron County Public Health has activated a call center for
information, questions, and guidance specific for Cameron County.
Phone: (956) 247-3650
Website: www.cob.us/2066/Coronavirus-Updates
About this Park
Located across from the world-renowned Gladys Porter Zoo is Brownsville's most intensely developed park.
A handful of civic buildings - the Camille Playhouse, the Ringgold Civic Pavilion, the Children's Museum and the Costumes of the Americas Museum - are built along historic Town Resaca. From the buildings a lighted boardwalk with picnic tables lines the resaca, perfect for fishing and bird watching.
The 25-acre park also contains Sam's Memorial Pool, with a children's spray park; a 2 playgrounds, including one with a Spanish galleon; a fitness trail; and several large and small picnic pavilions.
With all of these features, Dean Porter Park continues to be one of the finest, well kept, and most diverse urban parks in the country.