Top 100 Fun Things To See & Do In The Dallas Fort Worth Area

If you're heading to Dallas, Fort Worth, or any of the surrounding cities for a weekend or vacation, then here is a good list of the best fun things to see and do in the DFW area. You'll find some fun nightlife, plenty of attractions and amusemnt parks, fantastic golf courses, great lakes, good camping, shops, restaurants, and lots more. Have fun.

 

Entertainment Districts

 

Belt Line in Addison	Bishop Arts District	Mockingbird Station
Snider Plaza	Stockyards National Historic District	Sundance Square
Uptown/Knox-Henderson	West End Historic District

 

Must See & Do

 

Dallas World Aquarium	Ride the Katy Trail	Play Golf
Go Camping or Visit a Lake	Reunion Tower	Dallas Zoo
Fort Worth Zoo	The French Room	Medieval Times
Southfork Ranch	Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek	McKinney Avenue Trolley
White Rock Lake	Pioneer Plaza
Louis Tussaud's Palace of Wax and Ripley's Believe It or Not!	The Old Red Museum of Dallas County History and Culture

 

Museums

 

African American Museum	Museum of the American Railroad	Frontiers of Flight Museum
Amon Carter Museum	Cavanaugh Flight Museum	Crow Collection of Asian Art
Dallas Holocaust Museum	SMU Meadows Museum	Perot Museum of Nature and Science
Kimbell Art Museum	Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth	The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
Nasher Sculpture Center	National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame

 

History

 

Chestnut Square Historic Village	Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park	John F. Kenendy Memorial
Fair Park	Grapevine Vintage Railroad
Log Cabin Village	Sixth Floor Museum

 

Arts and Culture

 

Bath House Cultural Center	Dallas Center for Contemporary Art	Latino Cultural Center
McKinney Avenue Contemporary	Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center	Texas Sculpture Garden

 

 

Nightlife

 

White Elephant Saloon	Gilley's Dallas	Absinthe Lounge
Billy Bob's Texas	Deep Ellum Entertainment District	Lee Harvey's
Inwood Theatre	Havana Social Club

 

Nature and Outdoors

 

Arbor Hills Nature Preserve	Cedar Hill State Park	Cedar Ridge Preserve
Dallas Arboretum	Dinosaur Valley State Park	Fort Worth Botanic Garden
Fort Worth Nature Center	Fossil Rim Wildlife Center	Heard Natural Science Museum
Katy Trail	River Legacy Park	Texas Discovery Gardens
Lake Ray Hubbard	Lewisville Lake	Lake Grapevine
North Texas Camping	Joe Pool Lake	Eagle Mountain Lake
Lake Granbury	Lake Whitney	Possum Kingdom Lake

 

Sports and Recreation

 

Dr Pepper Ballpark	Zip Lines & Challenge Courses	GameWorks
Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie	Malibu SpeedZone	Mesquite Championship Rodeo
Metroplex BMX	North Texas Golf Courses	Rangers Ballpark
Six Flags Over Texas	Six Flags Hurricane Harbor	Texas Motor Speedway
Texas Motorplex	Zero Gravity Thrill Amusement Park
North Texas Golf Courses	North Texas Lakes & Camping

 

Shopping

 

NorthPark Center

Dallas Farmers Market	First Monday Trade Days in Canton	Galleria Dallas
Ikea Frisco	Neiman Marcus Downtown Dallas

 

Offbeat

 

The Cockroach Hall of Fame

Mary Kay Cosmetics Tours

Petropolitan Downtown Dallas Doggie Spa