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Denton

Denton is a city in the U.S.

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The place

Denton is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Denton County. With a population of 139,869 as of 2020, it is the 20th-most populous city in Texas, the 177th-most populous city in the United States, and the 10th-most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Denton

7 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.

  1. 01
    University of North Texas

    The University of North Texas is a public research university in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, United States. Its main campus is in Denton, with a satellite campus in Frisco.

    1.8 km · public research university based in Denton, TX, USA · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Texas's 26th congressional district

    Texas' 26th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives includes rural Cooke County to the north and some of Wise County to the West and includes parts of Denton County, including Flower Mound, Lewisville and parts of Corinth, Carrollton, Little Elm and The Colony. The current Representative is Brandon Gill.

    3.6 km · U.S. House district for Texas · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    C. H. Collins Athletic Complex

    CH Collins Stadium is a 12,000-capacity multi-use stadium in Denton, Texas. The stadium is used mostly for high school football and soccer.

    5.3 km · Multi-use stadium in Denton, Texas, U.S. · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    DATCU Stadium

    DATCU Stadium is a college football stadium located at the north junction of Interstate 35E and Interstate 35W in Denton, Texas, United States. Opened in 2011, it is home to the University of North Texas Mean Green football team, which competes in the American Athletic Conference.

    3.2 km · college football stadium in Denton, Texas, United States · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Fouts Field

    Fouts Field was a stadium at the University of North Texas, located in Denton, Texas. Its primary use from its opening in 1952 until 2010 was as the home field for North Texas Mean Green football.

    2.8 km · stadium in Texas, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Golden Triangle Mall

    Golden Triangle Mall is an enclosed, single-level shopping mall located at the intersection of Loop 288 and I-35E in Denton, Texas, United States. It contains seven current anchors, a playplace, and total leasable floor area of 764,719 sq ft total.

    3.7 km · mall in Denton, Texas · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    University of North Texas Discovery Park

    The University of North Texas Discovery Park Campus, formerly Research Park, is a satellite research facility of the University of North Texas. Discovery Park is located in Denton, Texas, north of the main campus, on U.S. Highway 77.

    4.7 km · Research facility of the University of North Texas · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Denton

Airports
Dallas Fort Worth (DFW), 37 km · Dallas Love Field (DAL), 49 km · OKC Will Rogers World (OKC), 246 km
Stations
Denton Enterprise Airport, 6.6 km · Downtown Denton Transit Center, 400 m
  • Dallas → Denton
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · $5–7
  • Oklahoma City → Denton
    253 km · quickest by road, 3h 44m · $21–29
  • Houston → Denton
    419 km · quickest by air, 5h 43m · $220–320
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Denton

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 Denton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextAny destination in Dallas or Fort Worth is easily accessible as a day trip.

From Wikivoyage: Denton (Texas), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

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  2. 02
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    1,946 km
  3. 03
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,951 km
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    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    2,277 km
  5. 05
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    2,684 km

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Around it

Next door to Denton

Denton is 53 km from Arlington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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