In April of last year, we mentioned the Grapevine Fire Department would be adding a new fire boat on Lake Grapevine.  Below are a few pictures of the new boat as well as a short video of a test run of the boat. Total cost of the boat was almost $200,000 which replaced the prior boat [...]

Saw the new ramp today. Looks like the work is pretty much finished. Gents were out finishing concrete pours on the sidewalks. VERY happy to see a new, low water ramp being built at Meadowmere. I can’t wait to use this ramp for our boat in 2012. Now… if a nice, new ramp could be [...]

As of October 12th, 2011, the burn ban at the Lake Grapevine parks has been lifted.  This is great news for campers and those of you who enjoy cooking out by the lake.  The burn ban lasted the entire summer. Almost everyone that has ever been camping knows that fire is an essential element of camping.  [...]

A lot of progress has been made on the new shallow water boat ramp at Meadowmere Park on Lake Grapevine.  The ramp itself is built down to the water level which is currently about 5 feet low.  I talked to a guy at the ramp who thought that the new boat ramp had already been built to [...]

The Grapevine City Council discussed changing the hours for  Lake View Park, Meadowmere Park, and Rockledge Park which are all located on Lake Grapevine.  The current city ordinance states those parks will be closed from 10:00 pm to 5:30 am.  A new city ordinance will be created to allow more flexible hours so that the parks [...]

I drove by a few of the boat ramps today at Lake Grapevine.  All of them seem to be in fairly good shape.  I still believe the best ramp on the lake is Katie’s Woods Boat Ramp.  Here are a couple of photos from today of that ramp and the boat dock which still looks very [...]

The current lake level for Grapevine Lake is only four feet low.  I say ‘only’ because most other area lake are much lower.  In fact, Lake Whitney which is about an hour south of Fort Worth is currently 15 feet low and most of its boat ramps are either closed or unusable.  All of the [...]