Report: Truck Yard food park coming to Fort Worth

As much as we love Fort Worth’s Clearfork Food Park and Fort Worth Food Park, there isn’t a cooler food-truck park in DFW than Dallas’ Truck Yard. It really does feel like you’re hanging out in someone’s great back yard, where people just happened to park a few food trucks. You can even get a treehouse seat.

Now, D Magazine reports, Fort Worth is going to get a Truck Yard location of its own. And from the looks of it, it won’t have the one thing that’s not cool about the Dallas Truck Yard: the struggle to find a parking place.

Sounding both as excited as we are and like they haven’t set foot in Fort Worth in more than 20 years (”Hold on to your 10-gallon hats!”), D reports that the Truck Yard will open in the old Crystal Springs Dance Pavilion Lot on White Settlement Road.

“It’s called Crystal Springs because 80 some odd years ago there was a dancehall and spring-fed swimming pond on the site,” Truck Yard proprietor-chef Jason Boso told D. “It’s long been gone since then, but in its heyday, a house band was formed called Milton Brown and his Brownies ... and Bob Wills created a new style of music called Western swing.”

Appropriately enough, Boso — who was one of the minds behind Twisted Root Burger Co. (which — ahem! — still doesn’t have a Fort Worth location) — says that the Fort Worth park will have a western-swing theme.

According to the Texas State Historical Society, Crystal Springs (also a hangout for Bonnie & Clyde) was at 5336 White Settlement Road, but D says that the food park will be at 5306 White Settlement Road. Although those addresses aren’t far apart, the former is actually on the Trinity River. Neither is all that far away from Thurber Mingus, the taco/burger joint that opened on White Settlement near the river about a year ago.

This story was originally published February 24, 2016 at 1:32 PM with the headline "Report: Truck Yard food park coming to Fort Worth."