Creekside Park Village

More than 520 families have purchased new homes in The Woodlands’ ninth and newest village, Creekside Park, and are enjoying the area’s many parks and amenities. Designed with an emphasis on outdoor recreation and communing with nature, the new village includes 1,850 areas of parklands encompassing the 1,700-acre George Mitchell Nature Preserve, 20-acre Rob Fleming Park and 72-acre Lake Paloma, along with many other neighborhoods parks, trails and greenspaces.

The award-winning George Mitchell Nature Preserve features seven miles of frontage along Spring Creek, and currently offers two trailheads leading to more than four miles of soft surface trails for hiking and birding, as well as an off-road trail for mountain biking. There’s also a kayak/canoe launch that leads to a pastoral oxbow near Spring Creek. The Preserve is part of the Spring Creek Greenway Project, a joint initiative of Harris and Montgomery Counties linking 33 miles of frontage along Spring Creek from US 59 to Spring.

Rob Fleming Park features a Craftsman-style lodge designed for outdoor performances, a one-acre pond and picnic area, a festival field, playground and Bluebonnet Meadow that is awash with color in early spring. The new Rob Fleming Aquatic Center is situated nearby on a 13-acre site at the edge of Lake Paloma. Complete with a two-story flume slide for tubing and a 500-foot long “Lazy River”, the Aquatic Center also features an aquatic play structure with 150-gallon dump bucket. The Aquatic Center is the 13th community pool in The Woodlands, and is open to all residents for a seasonal fee.

Well underway is Creekside Forest Elementary School for grades K-6, part of the Tomball ISD, scheduled to open for the 2009-2010 school year.

A major YMCA facility, the third in The Woodlands, has just broken ground in the new village, with opening of the first phase planned for 2010.
Source: TWDC