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Fort Worth
23 places · 6 areas · any 7 stops free, then $4.99 for the whole city · offline map 24.5 MB
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8 of the highlights, 1 day, about 4.5 mi (7.2 km), planned by the app's own engine and shown here with their guide. In the app you choose your own.
Day 1 · ~4.5 mi (7.2 km)
1
Livestock Exchange Building
131 East Exchange Avenue; the 1902 Wall Street of the West, with the Stockyards museum inside
Step into the Stockyards museum inside to see how the cattle trade worked.
2
Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame
2515 Rodeo Plaza; Stockyards hall of fame in a rebuilt 1912 horse and mule barn
See the Sterquell collection of wagons and carriages, and the stories of the people honored here.
3
Heritage Park Plaza
West Bluff Street at Main Street; Lawrence Halprin's 1980 park on the site of the 1849 army post
See the site from the street near the Tarrant County Courthouse, where Fort Worth began.
4
Tarrant County Courthouse
North end of Main Street; pink granite courthouse of 1895, the city's tallest building until 1920
Look up Main Street from Sundance Square to the courthouse at its north end.
5
Sid Richardson Museum
309 Main Street; small museum of Western art by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, free since 1982
Look closely at the Remington and Russell paintings of the West in this small gallery.
6
Sundance Square
Downtown; 35-block shopping and entertainment district named after the Sundance Kid, with the Chisholm Trail mural
Walk the blocks around the square in the evening, and find the Chisholm Trail mural of the cattle drives.
7
Bass Performance Hall
525 Commerce Street; 1998 concert hall with two 48-foot limestone angels on its front
Stand across the street to see the two angels on the front, and come back for a show.
8
Fort Worth Water Gardens
South downtown; Philip Johnson's 1974 park of terraced pools and water walls, with a 38-foot plunging pool
Walk the paths and terraces around the pools, and look down into the Active Pool as the water falls 38 feet.
More of the top sights
A few of the 23 places in the full guide. Each one has its own written guide in the app: what to do, what to notice, the history, and why it hits.
Fort Worth Stockyards
North Fort Worth; historic district of the 1890 Union Stockyards, with a longhorn drive twice a day
Kimbell Art Museum
Cultural District; Louis Kahn's 1972 museum of silver-lit vaults, with Renzo Piano's 2013 pavilion across the lawn
Dinosaur Valley State Park
Glen Rose; Paluxy River park with 113-million-year-old dinosaur tracks in the riverbed
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
3200 Darnell Street; Tadao Ando's 2002 glass and concrete pavilions set on a reflecting pond
Cowtown Coliseum
Stockyards; 1908 coliseum, the first indoor rodeo arena in the United States, with rodeo most weekends
Hood County Courthouse
Granbury square; 1891 Second Empire courthouse at the heart of a preserved 19th-century town square
Fort Worth Botanic Garden
3220 Botanic Garden Boulevard; 120-acre garden founded in 1934, next to the Cultural District
Areas
Stockyards · Downtown and Sundance Square · Cultural District · Trinity Park and Botanic Garden · Granbury · Glen Rose
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