The elevated station, which serves the Red Line and Orange Line, is located on Forest Lane, 1⁄3 mile (0.54 km) east of North Central Expressway (US 75) and 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway (I-635).

[1] The station serves the Medical City Dallas hospital complex, the Cottonwood Trail, and the Hamilton Park neighborhood.

The transit center was announced by the Texas Department of Transportation in 1983, several months before DART's formation; it was opened in 1985.

The lot was left unused for several years before it was redeveloped; it is currently the location of a Costco store.

Forest Lane station opened on July 1, 2002, as part of the Red Line's second major expansion.