Cedar Springs Road is a road mainly in Uptown Dallas. The road also connects to
Dallas Love Field
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and provides access to its terminal. It also once was a major thoroughfare through central Dallas and the Turtle Creek area in the early 1900s.
Dallas Area Rapid Transit
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bus route 39 traversed much of the length of this road; however, in 2022, bus route 103 replaced it.
Route description
The road's southern end is at North Field Street near the
Victory Park neighborhood just north of
Downtown Dallas
Downtown Dallas is the central business district (CBD) of Dallas, Texas, United States, located in the geographic center of the city. It is the second-largest business district in the state of Texas. The area termed "Downtown" has traditionally ...
. It travels northeast for two blocks, turning directly north at Akard Street while also becoming one-way northbound for two blocks past this. At Olive Street, it becomes two-way again, and leaves the downtown area for
Uptown Dallas
Uptown is a PID (public improvement district) and a dense neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. Uptown is north of and adjacent to downtown Dallas, and is bordered by U.S. Highway 75 (Texas), US 75 (Central Expressway (Dallas), Central Expressway) on t ...
. It then passes under the
Katy Trail, over
Turtle Creek, and
Turtle Creek Boulevard
Turtle Creek Boulevard is a thoroughfare that runs through the Turtle Creek, Dallas, Turtle Creek neighborhood of Oak Lawn, Dallas, Oak Lawn, Dallas, Texas, Dallas, Texas (United States, USA), generally alongside the actual Turtle Creek (Dallas ...
joins it about a block north from there. The two streets run multiplexed for two blocks on the west side of the creek, then split. Turtle Creek Boulevard continues north-northeast, while Cedar Springs Road turns northwest at Bowen Street. From here, the road runs through one of the financial cores of Dallas, and intersects with Oak Lawn Avenue. The road then cuts through the
Oak Lawn neighborhood, and intersects with Wycliff Avenue. The road then crosses over the
Dallas North Tollway
The Dallas North Tollway (DNT, or simply the Tollway) is a controlled-access highway, controlled-access toll road operated by the North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA), which runs from Interstate 35E (Texas), Interstate 35E near Downtown Dall ...
. Farther northwest, the road intersects with Inwood Road and a few shopping centers. The road finally intersects with
Mockingbird Lane
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and widens to six lanes, where it approaches the terminal at
Dallas Love Field
Dallas Love Field is a city-owned public airport in the neighborhood of Love Field, Dallas, Love Field, northwest of downtown Dallas, Texas., effective April 17, 2025. It was Dallas' main airport until 1974 when Dallas Fort Worth Internation ...
and its termination point. The portion north of Mockingbird leading to the airport terminal was renamed
Herb Kelleher
Herbert David Kelleher (March 12, 1931 – January 3, 2019) was an American billionaire airline businessman and lawyer. He was the co-founder, later CEO, and chairman emeritus of Southwest Airlines until his death in 2019.
Early life
Kelleher ...
Way in 2014 in honor of the founder of
Southwest Airlines
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.
History
William Grigsby, a veteran of the Texas Revolution, sold 320 acres to John Cole in 1846 for $1 per acre. Cole built a store and other businesses on the property and established his medical practice. The community became known as Cedar Springs for its free flowing springs and cedar tree grove. It became a part of Dallas County that same year.
On Memorial Day 2014, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., 1.25 miles of Cedar Springs Road was blocked off, along with parts of Routh Street and Harwood Street to create a
ciclovía, a pedestrian-only road.
References
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Transportation in Dallas County, Texas