Dallas Travel Guide

Reunion Tower observation area is expected to reopen sometime in 2012, but no expected date has been given. In the meantime, you can either eat at the restaurant or go up to the bar to be able to get a vew of the city from the rotating section of the ball.

I suppose you would have to be of a certain age to enjoy this, but there once was a television series called "Dallas" which was extremely popular. The exterior shots were filmed using the house and grounds shown in these pictures. Interior shots, however were filmed in Southern California studios. Please click the photo to see 4 more, including...

This park, the sight of the annual Texas State Fair, also hosts a number of year round attractions. Including an Aquarium, Butterfly gardens and other event centers. Definitely a Dallas must see year round.

When Saltgrass first started expanding their franchises I hated steak. Yea, yea, I wasn't even a teenager though. So I started with the kids menu and have worked myself up to the best steak in the place. The restaurant is authentic country Texas. The decor ranges from televisions with the game on, deer heads, bear heads, license plates and other...

More than food drinks are very nice...unexpensive. The restaurant operated all the year round. Wear casual clothes in daytime , during the night kids are not allow and wear semi casual . I recommend if u wanna enjoy the dinner made a phone call and get the reservation..usually weekend time is long waiting list. Sometimes tips are included in u...

Landry's is a nationally recognized seafood restaurant that first opened its doors in 1980 in Katy, Texas. There are now over 300 restaurants and properties nationwide. If you like seafood you'll most likely enjoy Landry's. When my mother and sister came for a visit over Thanksgiving, my husband and I took them for a spin around the West End, then...

I have been to Deep Ellum a couple of times. The first time was to see a band...Lifehouse, I believe. And the second time was to eat at the Angry Dog (which you can see in my restaurant tips). Both times I felt it was very low key. While I was in college it was the "place to be" but I believe shortly after I graduated it was getting lots of...

If your visiting dallas and want to roll you could get lucky here. They play trance, techno, dance, house, everyone has there glow sticks and beware lots of young punks, it is 18 and up. I havent been in a year but i figure its still the same.

Live music in the West End area. There is an outdoor courtyard with a stage at one end for performers during the summer. There are also several bars and a Nice Day Cafe. One cover charge (around $8) gets you into eight touristy clubs and five live venues. Note : Dallas Alley is now closed (2007)

You can get to and from the Dallas/Ft Worth airport quite cheap, but it takes a few steps. (1) Take a shuttle bus to the South Remote Parking lot. Buses from terminals and the CentrePort/DFW Airport TRE Station meet there. Don't worry; the buses wait for each other. (2) Take the shuttle bus to the CentrePort/DFW Airport TRE station. Buy a $2.50...

The Dallas/Fort Worth airport is American Airline's hub city with hundreds of flights departing this airport to most places AA flys to. American Airlines is always my choice of airline when I fly and I will usually fly into DFW as an onward connection. The airport is one of the nicest and easiest airports to navigate and connecting between all 5...

I am not sure, but I think this is at the site of the "High Five" project which is the Texas Department of Transportation's (TXDOT) master plan for unsnarling the tangle that has been created over a period of three decades at the interchange between the IH635 east/west loop and US75, the major north/south freeway running through the Dallas...

The primary items at this place are architectural salvage items. Doors, windows (photo 5), mantles for fireplaces (photos 3 and 4), bathtubs, wood, flooring, etc. But they also weld together these interesting looking decorative birdhouses and lamps (photo 2). Now that people are rehabbing their houses and want the atmospheric old time touches,...

The Galleria is an awesome, upscale shopping mall…and this is coming from a Los Angeles shopaholic, who frequents the stores in Beverly Hills! The main anchor department stores are Macy’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Nordstrom’s. This mall combines some of the best stores of Rodeo Drive such as Tiffany & Co., Louis Vuitton, and Versace with more common...

Dallas farmers market is outdoors, under a "carport" type canopy, about 1 acre in extent. The vendors are the growers, not employees, and very friendly and helpful. The items offered are excellent in quality and well displayed. However, the vendors receive no help whatever from the city or the market organization to whom they pay rent, as far as...

Okay, just so you know where this knowledge is coming from, a little bit about me: I was born in Dallas, lived there until I was 4, then moved to Kansas, moved back home to Texas when I was 10. From 10-16 I lived in small-town East Texas, just north of Dallas (near Sherman/Denison). When I was 16 I lived in Topeka, Kansas, then at 17-19 moved back...

Being caucasian, I have never had to deal with discrimination. Unfortunately, discrimination still pervades our society/generation as present generations of colored people whose forefathers have been in America for generations, still claim that the present "white" man must be held accountable for the sins of past "whites". Where in the Bible does...

There are various Asian food stalls which are not huge in variety but are not bad. A lot of the dancing and singing are performed by children and there are many stalls offering activities specifically for children. Along with the sponsors stalls, there are various Asian stalls offering goods from their respective countries.

I've heard visitors, from other cities, comment on how many meth motels we have along the highways. For this reason, it's probably best to stay away from the "cheap" motels you see, no matter how decent they might look during the day. I'm not sure it's as much dangerous as it is unpleasant. This even applies to some of the cheap motels in the...

As you may have heard on the news, locking children in your car is a life-threateningly dangerous thing. In Dallas TX, Pop-A-Lock offers FREE emergency door unlocking for any emergency situation where someone is locked in a vehicle or building. It is a FREE SERVICE offered to the community by Pop-A-Lock. While in Dallas, you should keep the...

We really don't see much of a weather change here. From November to March it varies greatly between 30 to 60 degrees. April begins to warm in the 70s/80s. Then we really get HOT......August is 90s and 100s and we don't cool off until October/November. Seldom do we see snow, usually ice when we do get bad weather in the Winter months. ...We did see...

I went to the West End many years ago & had a blast with my kids & my brother. We walked around, took the carriage ride & learned some Dallas history on the trip, got hit up by the rose peddlers, listened to street musicians, looked in the shops at the warehouse & had the best time listening to the guys at the fudge factory - singing while making...

it sucks. you're better off looking at the website. in fact i'll even give you the url www.southfork.com unless you have a lot of time on your hand and nothing else to do or are just a huge "Dallas" fan, skip it. if you have to go see it and you will be in plano,tx (the suburb of dallas where southfork is actually located) maybe head to connemara...

Shopping Shopping and Shopping! My favorite thing to do besides travel~ There is a skating rink in the mall which is strange, because it gets over 100 degrees in the summer....Just stay inside in the air conditioning in Dallas! VERY HOT HERE!

Although you can probably leave out your snow boots, I would suggest being prepared for almost any other kind of weather (especially in spring)! You can never tell what the weather is going to be like. One day it is a hot, dry, 95 degrees, and the next day is 70 and raining. I would definitely suggest being prepared for the rain. You will almost...

The temperature for the most part in March is going to be mild, although Dallas has been known to have winter slip past the end of February a couple times. Overall, around the middle of March however the entire day will be nice and calm. You will most likely want to wear short sleeves and a light pair of pants or jeans, but I would keep a light...

Always travel small. If you are coming by plane, just bring a carry on bag. No one will notice if you wear the same pair of jeans on a couple days of the trip! December in Dallas is truly a mixed bag. So far in 2007, we have had a day in the 80's several in the 30's, and plenty in between. The normal average is in the high 50's, so bring a couple...

I decided to walk from West Village to Mansion on Turtle Creek. Tell you the truth I didn't see anything interesting about Mansion; however, I discovered nice park area along the creek with tall fashionable buildings. Try Turtle Creek Dr and Cedar Springs to see new condominium buildings with prices of condos counting in millions. I know I don't...

There are various reasons you may head South when you leave Dallas. Most people want to do the Texas trifecta, heading from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, south through Austin to San Antonio. On this journey, there are a ton of neat little towns to stop in, including Luling, Salado, Gruene, New Braunfels, San Marcos, and many others. One of the...

When I was in Dallas at the Convention Center in 1997, I saw this park and took some pictures here. One of them is on my Dallas Intro page. It is Pioneer Plaza, the world's largest bronze sculpture of its kind and it depicts a cattle drive of 3 cowboys and 50 steers. Each piece was created by artist Robert Summers of Glen Rose, TX. This 4.2-acre...

The American Airlines Arena is the site of many events, but it was the Dallas Mavericks game that drew us there over Christmas. The arena was jam-packed, so we had to split our group between two sections, which were across the court from each other. Our visit began with a bang, when our granddaughter caught one of the free lunch coupons launched...

The American Airlines Center is the marquee location to watch multiple different entertainment events, including the Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Stars, NCAA College Basketball, Music Concerts, the Circus, and many others. If you attend an event in this center, you will quickly learn there are no bad seats in the house. The entire center has great...

We attended the final game at Texas Stadium on Saturday, December 20, 2008 (Victoria's birthday!). Cold, cold, cold, but we stayed until the bitter end. Outdoor football watching requires lots of layers and maybe even some winter silks!

If you are anywhere near the West End or the JFK sites, you'll notice the old Dallas Courthouse sitting proudly on 100 S. Houston Street. The former courthouse, affectionately called OLD RED is a Romanesque Revival style building, which was erected in 1892 and is comprised of old granite and sandstone. Architects Orlopp & Kusener designed this...

Interesting museum, filled with photos of JFK, videos and personal things. I didn't take audio tour, I think there are a lot of things to read on your own. I was excited to see the boxes that were there in the moment of assassination. Also it is worth to look on the stands with different theories who odered the assassination. I would recommend...

Dallas is a huge sports town. The Dallas Burn is a new major league soccer team. The Dallas Cowboys , the Dallas Mavericks, Texas Rangers, Dallas Sidekicks, Dallas Desparados and the Dallas Stars are some of the professional teams in Dallas. There are 4 local college teams (SMU, TCU, UTA, and North Texas). Local high schools also have their fans,...