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Longhorns walk down Exchange Avenue twice a day, Fort Worth, Texas

Billy Bob's Texas is a famous honky tonk in the Stockyards, Fort Worth, Texas

Louis Kahn designed the vaulted galleries of the Kimbell, Fort Worth, Texas

The Modern seems to float on a reflecting pond, Fort Worth, Texas

About Fort Worth

Fort Worth sits at the western end of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, and it has long embraced the nickname Cowtown. The city grew as a stop on cattle drives and later as a major livestock market and meatpacking center, and that frontier heritage remains part of its identity. Yet Fort Worth is just as proud of its museums, which rank among the strongest in the American Southwest.

In the Fort Worth Stockyards, brick buildings and wooden pens recall the cattle trade, and a small herd of longhorns is driven down the street on a regular schedule. Billy Bob's Texas, a huge honky-tonk, hosts country music concerts and live bull riding, while the Stockyards Championship Rodeo runs on weekend nights. The Cultural District offers a very different mood. The Kimbell Art Museum, designed by Louis Kahn, holds a superb collection in a celebrated building, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth faces it with a glass-and-concrete pavilion by Tadao Ando. The Amon Carter Museum of American Art and other institutions sit nearby.

Downtown's Sundance Square is a lively plaza ringed by restaurants, and the Fort Worth Water Gardens offer a striking architectural landscape. The Botanic Garden and Trinity River trails provide green space. Spring and fall are the most pleasant seasons.

Best seasonMarch to May and October to November bring mild weather; summers are long and hot.

Ideal stayTwo to three days covers the Stockyards, museums and downtown.

ArrivingDallas/Fort Worth International Airport is the main gateway, with TEXRail linking it to downtown Fort Worth.

WiserMap travel guideFort Worth Texas Stockyards Cattle Drive and Art MuseumsPlan a Fort Worth trip: the Stockyards cattle drive, Billy Bob's Texas, the Kimbell and Modern art museums, Sundance Square, the Water Gardens and Texas barbecu...Read the guide

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History 1

Fort Worth Stockyards

The Fort Worth Stockyards was once one of the busiest livestock markets in the country, and its brick pens, barns and saloons now...

Events 1

Fort Worth Herd Cattle Drive

Twice a day, every day, drovers on horseback guide a herd of Texas longhorns down Exchange Avenue in the heart of the Stockyards,...

Entertainment 2

Stockyards Championship Rodeo

Cowtown Coliseum, built in 1908 in the heart of the Stockyards, was the site of the world's first indoor rodeo in 1918, and it sti...

Billy Bob's Texas

Billing itself as the world's largest honky-tonk, Billy Bob's Texas fills a vast former cattle barn in the Stockyards with dance f...

Museums 4

Kimbell Art Museum

The Kimbell is often called one of the most beautiful museums in the world, thanks to Louis Kahn's 1972 building, whose long cyclo...

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed the Modern's building, which opened in 2002 as a series of concrete and glass pavilions tha...

Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Founded by Fort Worth publisher Amon G. Carter, this museum in the Cultural District houses one of the finest collections of Ameri...

National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame

This museum in the Cultural District celebrates the women who shaped the American West, from ranchers and rodeo champions to artis...

Neighborhoods 1

Sundance Square

Sundance Square is the heart of downtown Fort Worth, a district of restored red-brick buildings, restaurants, shops and theatres,...

Landmarks 1

Fort Worth Water Gardens

Designed by architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee and opened in 1974, the Fort Worth Water Gardens is a dramatic urban park of...

Parks 1

Fort Worth Botanic Garden

Founded in 1934, the Fort Worth Botanic Garden is the oldest major botanic garden in Texas, spread over more than a hundred acres...

Family 1

Fort Worth Zoo

Founded in 1909, the Fort Worth Zoo is among the oldest zoos in Texas and one of the most highly regarded in the country. Its exhi...

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