Big D does everything Texas-sized: the largest urban arts district in America, a skyline of icons, JFK history at Dealey Plaza, and Fort Worth’s western spirit a short ride away. This guide gathers the best of it, with the tours and places our readers love most.
JFK and history tours
Dallas handles its hardest history with care and context: the JFK tour with the Oswald rooming house, Walk Through History on the JFK tour, the JFK and Museum tour and the moving Kennedy trolley tour. Ground yourself first at Dealey Plaza, the city’s historic landmark district. → All JFK & history tours
City tours and viewpoints
Ride up the Reunion Tower GeO-Deck for 360° views from 470 feet, breeze through downtown on the open-air van tour, take the classic Dallas sightseeing tour (the perfect 3-hour welcome), and play at the Museum of Money. The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge draws the skyline’s silhouette. → All city tours
The Arts District and museums
The Dallas Arts District is the largest urban arts district in the U.S.; inside it, the Dallas Museum of Art shows free masterpieces, and Klyde Warren Park — the city’s lively front lawn — feeds everyone from food trucks. Pause at the peaceful Thanks-Giving Square. → Dallas museums
Fort Worth and combo days
Two Texas icons in one day: the Southfork Ranch and Dallas highlights combo, a touchdown day on the Dallas and Cowboys Stadium combo, the western spirit of the Fort Worth half-day tour, or both cities on the Dallas & Fort Worth combo. → All combo tours
Food, drink and nightlife
Five tastes of the coolest neighborhood on the Deep Ellum food tour — read up on Deep Ellum, the historic heart of music and street art — plus the downtown historic food tour, a distillery tour and tasting, the party bike pub crawl and ghost stories on the Haunted Dallas Booze and Boos tour. → All food & nightlife tours
Parks, lakes and gardens
The Dallas Arboretum blooms across 66 acres by White Rock Lake Park, the city’s favorite urban lake; downtown, bronze longhorns charge at Pioneer Plaza, the monument to the cattle-drive era. → All Dallas places
Adventure
Free-fall at the Dallas indoor skydiving experience, fly the treetops on the ropes course and zip line adventure, and glide golden hour on the downtown sunset e-scooter tour. → Adventure tours
Where to stay and what’s on
Stay downtown, in Uptown or by the Arts District — compare in Where to Stay, check what’s on this week and our concerts, and plan with the 1-to-5-day itineraries.
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