Bear Creek Pioneers Park, Urban park in Houston, Texas

Bear Creek Pioneers Park is a 2,154-acre urban space in Houston featuring trails, sports fields, and natural areas integrated within the Addicks Reservoir system. The grounds combine recreational facilities with protected habitats for native wildlife species.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the Addicks Reservoir between 1946 and 1948 to prevent a repeat of Houston's 1935 flood, and the park occupies part of that reservoir. German immigrant farmers and their descendants had worked the land since the 1840s. Harris County leased 2,154 acres of the reservoir in 1965 and began developing the park.

The park's name comes from Bear Creek, originally spelled "Behr" by German settlers and later anglicised. The Harris County War Memorial, beside the Eldridge Parkway entrance, was built in 1985 for residents killed in World War I and later wars; services are held there each Memorial Day at 2 p.m.

The park has four lighted tennis courts, eight picnic pavilions, horseshoe courts, and hundreds of picnic tables and grills. Pavilions must be reserved before use, while tables and grills are first come. There are no stores, so bring your own food and drink; restrooms and drinking fountains are found throughout.

The park's name comes from Behr Creek, spelled after the German settlers; it was Anglicised to Bear Creek. Despite the name, the zoo holds no bears: its exhibits list bison, emus, pot-bellied pigs, white-tailed deer, donkeys, sheep, goats, peacocks and birds of prey. Langham Creek, not Bear Creek, nearly bisects the park.