Hogan Park Is the Big Green Anchor on Midland's North Side

If someone in Midland tells you to 'meet at the park,' there's a good chance they mean Hogan. It sprawls across 620 acres off East Wadley Avenue on the north side of town, big enough that you can spend a Saturday there and never see the same corner twice. In a county where the land outside the city runs to mesquite and oilfield caliche, 620 watered acres is a real thing.

It's built for teams. There are five lighted baseball fields and eleven softball fields, so on a spring evening the whole place hums with league games under the lights. Beyond the diamonds there's a golf course, a walking track, a dog park, a playground, and the kind of West Texas detail you don't see everywhere: croquet and horseshoe courts, plus dozens of grills and picnic tables for the after-game cookout.

Gates are open daily from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. If you're new and trying to get your bearings, Hogan is the easiest landmark to start from. Almost everything Midland does outdoors at city scale, it does here first.