Dallas
Dallas is a city in the U.S.
Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. Located in northern Texas, it is the ninth-most populous city in the United States and third-most populous city in Texas, with a population of 1.3 million at the 2020 census. Along with the city of Fort Worth, Dallas anchors the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. and the most populous metropolitan area in Texas, at 8.5 million people. Dallas is a core city of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern U.S. and the largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. that lacks any navigable link to the sea. It is the seat of Dallas County, covering nearly 386 square miles (1,000 km2) and extending into Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties.
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Worth seeing in and around Dallas
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01American Airlines Center
American Airlines Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in the Victory Park neighborhood in downtown Dallas, Texas. The arena serves as the home of the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League and Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association.
1.3 km · multi-purpose arena in Dallas, Texas, United States · Wikipedia - 02Cotton Bowl
The Cotton Bowl is an outdoor stadium in Dallas, Texas, United States. Opened in 1930 as Fair Park Stadium, it is on the site of the State Fair of Texas, known as Fair Park.
4.6 km · stadium in Dallas, Texas, United States · Wikipedia - 03Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University is a private research university in University Park, Texas, United States, with a satellite campus in Taos County, New Mexico. SMU was founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South—now part of the United Methodist Church—in partnership with Dallas civic leaders.
7.6 km · private university in Dallas, Texas, United States · Wikipedia - 04Dallas Museum of Art
The Dallas Museum of Art is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood.
1.2 km · art museum in Dallas, Texas · Wikipedia - 05Texas School Book Depository
The Texas School Book Depository, later known as the Dallas County Administration Building and now "The Sixth Floor Museum", is a seven-floor building facing Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was working as an employee at the building when he assassinated United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
100 m · building in Dallas, Texas, United States · Wikipedia - 06Renaissance Tower
Renaissance Tower is a 886 ft, 56-story modernist skyscraper at 1201 Elm Street in downtown Dallas, Texas, U.S. The tower is the second-tallest in the city, the fifth-tallest in Texas, and the 47th-tallest in the United States. Renaissance Tower was designed by the architectural firm Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, completed in 1974, and renovated by architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in 1986.
700 m · skyscraper in Dallas, Texas · Wikipedia - 07George W. Bush Presidential Center
The George W. Bush Presidential Center, which opened on April 25, 2013, is a complex that includes the presidential library and museum of George W. Bush, 43rd United States president, the George W. Bush Policy Institute, and the offices of the George W. Bush Foundation. It is located on the campus of Southern Methodist University in University Park, Texas, near Dallas.
7.5 km · Presidential library and museum for U.S. President George W. Bush, located in Dallas, Texas · Wikipedia - 08Diocese of Dallas
The Diocese of Dallas is a Catholic diocese in North Texas in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of San Antonio, founded in 1890.
1.1 km · diocese of the Catholic Church seated in Dallas, Texas, United States · Wikipedia - 09Reunion Tower
Reunion Tower is a 561 ft observation tower in Dallas, and one of the city's most recognizable landmarks. The tower is located at 300 Reunion Boulevard in the Reunion district of downtown Dallas, which is named after the mid-nineteenth century commune La Reunion.
400 m · observation tower · Wikipedia - 10Fountain Place
Fountain Place is a 60-story late-modernist skyscraper in downtown Dallas, Texas. Standing at a structural height of 720 ft, it is the fifth-tallest building in Dallas, and the 15th-tallest in Texas.
900 m · Dallas skyscraper · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Dealey Plaza in Downtown Dallas was the site of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The Sixth-Floor Museum maintains a collection of artifacts related to JFK and his assassination. The JFK Memorial Plaza is a stark but elegant space for quiet reflection on the President's life. Dallas City Hall in Downtown Dallas is an imposing Brutalist edifice by famous architect I.M. Pei.
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Things to do
State Fair of Texas - A large part of Dallas' culture and probably its biggest attraction, the State Fair is hosted annually for three weeks around September and October. More than anything, the Fair is known for its fair food, most of it deep-fried. Heated competitions held for the best-tasting and most creative of these have seen deep-fried incarnations of practically every food (and drink) imaginable.
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Where to eat
Areas with high concentrations of restaurants include the following: Beltline Road through Addison and North Dallas, just north of I-635, has perhaps the most restaurants per-capita in the U.S. If there is a type of food you like then you can probably find it there. Greenville Avenue running north to south in East Dallas, has many restaurants along its length, particularly in Lower Greenville.
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Getting to Dallas
- Airports
- Dallas Love Field (DAL), 8 km · Dallas Fort Worth (DFW), 25 km · Austin Bergstrom (AUS), 298 km
- Stations
- Dallas Love Field, 8.6 km · Union Station, 400 m · Akard, 800 m
- Houston → Dallas363 km · quickest by road, 5h 18m · $31–42
- Austin → Dallas293 km · quickest by road, 4h 19m · $25–35
- Oklahoma City → Dallas306 km · quickest by road, 4h 34m · $26–36
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Dallas
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Dallas. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inVarious shared-ride shuttle services are available, with door to door pickup and drop off, costing ~$30 for ~20 miles (~30 km), which will get you to most places.
- Get inThere are also various shared-ride shuttle services available which offer door-to-door pickup and drop off.
- Get inMany of these planes are available through charter operators and air taxi companies that provide shuttle flights, with the most common routes flown between Houston or Oklahoma City.
- Get inAir charter brokers such as Alliance Air Charter and Private Jets Dallas offer access to charter planes in Texas across the country.
- Get inIndependent bus charter with full-size motor coaches, shuttle vans, luxury sedans, and SUV's.
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Next door to Dallas
Dallas is 28 km from Arlington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Dallas City Hallseat of municipal government of the city of Dallas, Texas, United States1.2 km
- Arts Districthuman settlement in Downtown Dallas, Texas, United States of America1.5 km
- Deep Ellumneighborhood in Dallas, Texas, United States of America2.7 km