The 15 things to do in Dallas

Visit Dallas: What are the best things to do and see in the one that we surname Big "D" in Texas?

Visit Dallas ? Immediately come two images in your mind: the TV series of the 1980s with the cruel JR and the ranch of the Ewing and all this oil but also the date of November 22, 1963, the day the American president JFK was murdered. But can we summarize the city of Dallas to that? Let’s see together the great places of interest to do in Dallas, this city that is constantly emancipating and growing over the decades.

1. Bank of America Plaza

With a height of 281 meters, it is the highest tower of all Dallas. It contains 72 floors and was inaugurated in the mid-1980s while the real estate market was booming. Since then, the economic and financial crisis has passed by and there is no other building of this magnitude that was launched in downtown Dallas.

2. Reunion Tower

It was one of the most emblematic towers in the city that was built in 1978. At the top of this tower there is a ball that contains a rotating bar-restaurant, the famous Five Sixty (this is a reference to tower height, 560 feet or 171 meters). The ball itself is surrounded by a metal mesh that contains almost 260 lamps, which helps to spot the tower in the middle of the night, wherever we are in Dallas. Go up to the top to enjoy a drink in this bar while admiring a surprising view.

3. Fair Park

It is a large park of more than a square kilometre located east of downtown Dallas. This huge space includes several museums but also an aquarium, a music hall for opera and a fantastic 92,000-seater stadium called the Cotton Bowl which serves as much for American football matches as for large-scale concerts. The Fair Park is not a park like the others because it also welcomes the famous Texas Star Ferris Wheel which is a large wheel of 65 m high (of course the highest in all the United States) and the Dallas fair that hosts for 3 weeks almost 7 million visitors each year.

4. The Pioneer Plaza

The only interest in this place is simply the largest bronze statue in the world. It represents with great realism texan cowboys who drive cattle. Note that it is a park that has free parking.

5. Jardin botanique et arboretum de Dallas (or Dallas arboretum and botanical garden)

This botanical garden is simply beautiful. A small paradise of greenery and serenity in the midst of all this concrete, these bricks, these dry spaces that make up Dallas. In the botanical garden there is a museum not to be missed with various fountains and fantastic landscaped gardens. The Dallas botanical garden includes nearly 2400 plant varieties.

6. The Dallas Art Museum_Dallas Museum of Art_)

This museum is a high-level discovery of decorative art and fine arts. The visit includes the enigmatic Lighthouse Hill d’Edward Hopper (1927) or The Sculptor and his Muse Rodin. The Spanish colonial art section is extraordinary. Overall, the museum collection contains over 22,000 works of art covering 5000 years. Children (and parents) will enjoy Young Learners Gallery , with fun projects for children

7. The Texas Fire Department

A very special place to visit. To live, to know, to learn all about the world of Dallas firefighters, it is here that you must be. A friendly and warm welcome. For more information, visit the official website of Dallas firefighters .

8. The Women’s Museum

It is the museum dedicated to women and its history through the Great History of the United States. You will be able to discover the contributions of women in the economic, social, and cultural life of the USA.

9. The Museum of Biblical Art (Museum of Biblical Art)

This building has works designed for temporary and permanent exhibitions. Many architectural works bathed in spiritual art are represented. This centre of biblical art is considered a high place covering various disciplines related to art, whether for paintings or art collections.

10. The City Hall

Built in 1978, this building is used to house the municipal services of the city of Dallas. It is easily recognized for its reverse pyramidal shape on 7 floors. Each floor is 3 metres wider than the previous one. This place is worth a look at its unconventional architectural structure.

11. The Dealey Plaza

This place is today sadly famous because it is here that President JFK was murdered in November 1963. For those who want to know more, the square is full of commemorative plates on buildings and structures to provide further information such as the map of the itinerary, the possible location of the killer, the exact location of the shooting, etc...

12. Texas School Book Depository and Six Floor Museum

In the same spirit, on the edges of the Dealey Plaza, there is the famous book depot, a building from which the alleged killer Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy. A commemorative plaque exists on the 6th floor with a museum dedicated to the deceased present, called the Six Floor Museum .

13. Union Station

This neo-classical building erected in 1916 was once a railway station. Today it is converted into offices and contrasts with the very large glass building of the Hyatt Regency Hotel.

14. The Farmers Market

This is a huge market where you will be able to meet nearly 1,000 farmers who come to Dallas to sell their production for half a century. All stalls are considerable and follow in a large open hall.

15. Other ideas for visits to Dallas

• Visit a ranch in Texas from Dallas
• The Perot Museum of Nature and Science (Scientific Museum)
• The Meadows Museum, a Spanish art museum
• The African American Museum
• Enjoy being in Texas to see Rodeo
• Attend a Dallas Mavericks basketball game

Tips to discover Dallas

Tourists are strongly advised to go directly to the tourist office (located to the Old Red Courthouse , 100, South Houston Street ) to take a map of the city in order to better turn to the streets. It is important to know that the rainy season is in the spring and that tourist programs can be interrupted or cancelled due to storms and long rains. Better to visit Dallas in summer or fall.

For those who really want to get involved in texane life in Dallas, take the tram and the bus, this will avoid the endless traffic jams by car. Tickets for these means of transport are sold in the kiosks. Finally, for gourmets and coffee lovers, it is necessary to know that Dallas is full of tasty little places that rival ingenuity to make attractive promotions. The most interesting are offered on weekends.

Dallas : How to get there? Where to stay?

Dallas has one of the largest airports in the United States, namely the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. To find the cheapest tickets to your flight from France to Dallas, don’t hesitate to use the flight comparison Skyscanner .

Dallas is the third city of Texas, and is very spaced. To make the most of the city's monuments and must-see places, it is important to choose the city's best area where to stay in Dallas . To find a cheap hotel in Dallas, search our Wanderlix hotel comparison .

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