Editing Little Elm, Texas (section)

==Parks==

Little Elm has five major community parks: Little Elm Park, Cottonwood Park, Beard Park, McCord Park, and Union Park. Cottonwood Park, located in the Lakefront district at the southern terminus of Lobo Lane, is home to Cottonwood Creek Marina.

[[File:Beard Park in Little Elm, Texas.jpg|thumb|Entrance to Beard Park in Little Elm, Texas]]
[[File:Paloma Creek, Texas.JPG|thumb|Sunset at Paloma Creek's entrance in Little Elm]]

Beard Park is the future home of Little Elm's Farmers Market, which in 2013 was set up in the Hobby Lobby shopping center.<ref name="380news">{{cite web |last1=380news |title=Little Elm's Farmers' Market |url=http://www.380news.com/2014/06/01/364/little-elms-farmers-market/ |publisher=The 380 News |access-date=18 June 2021}}</ref>

McCord Park is a wooded, 38-acre park including trails, a disc golf course, a fishing dock, and a playground. The disc golf course was designed by [[John Houck]], a world-renowned disc golf course designer.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}

Through creative planning and zoning, McCord Park was donated to the city and constructed by the developers of the luxury multifamily projects adjacent to it. The total value of the land and park improvements was estimated to be over $5 million, all of which was paid for by the developer. Vital to the city's master hike and bike trail plan, McCord Park provides an invaluable link from FM 423 to Veteran's Memorial Bridge on Witt Road and eventually westward along Lewisville Lake to the Lakefront district. It also offers a critical connection point into Frisco's trail system, which is part of a regional master trail system, one day ensuring that Little Elm residents could continually travel to Dallas via trail without interruption.