We offer 4 different tours of Dallas and the metropolitan area ranging from 3 to 6 days. Four through six-day tours can include Corsicana, Fort Worth, and the Six Flags Over Texas amusement park in Arlington. Dallas is 239 miles/385 kilometers from Houston. Allow a minimum of 4 hours to drive there including a bathroom stop en route.
Dallas is 36.1/58.1 kilometers miles to Fort Worth or about a 41 to 90 minute drive depending on traffic.
Dallas is 21.0 miles/33.8 kilometers to Six Flags Over Texas or about a 28 to 40 minute drive depending on
traffic.
Dallas is 56.7 miles/91.3 kilometers to Corsicana or about a 66 to 80 minute drive depending on traffic.
We generally depart from Houston at 7:00 AM. We will return to Houston by 7:00 PM.
3-Day Tour
Day 1
7:00 – 11:00 AM – Drive to Dallas.
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM – Lunch at the Old Mill Inn or Café Max in the Science Place at Fair Park.
12:30 – 5:00 PM – Tour over ½ dozen museums: African American Museum, The Age of Steam Railroad Museum, Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park, Dallas Museum of Natural Science, Hall of State, The Science Place, Texas Discovery Gardens, The Women’s Museum: An Institute for the Future, and the Texas Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
5:00 – 5:30 PM – Drive to and check in at the hotel.
5:30 – 6:00 PM – Freshen up.
6:00 – 7:00 PM/8:00 PM – Dinner at the hotel or a nearby restaurant such as Baby Does, the Old San Francisco Steak house or a comparable restaurant.
8:00 – 8:30 PM – Drive to the hotel.
Day 2
7:30 – 8:30 AM – Breakfast.
8:30 – 8:45 AM – Drive to either the cemetery where Bonnie Parker is buried, or where Mickey Mantle, Mary Kay Ash, John Tower, Greer Garson, and other celebrities and famous people are buried.
8:45 – 9:45 AM – Tour a cemetery.
9:45 – 10:00 AM – Drive to Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park. Closed in January and August. In January and August, drive to the Old Red Museum of Dallas County.
10:00 – 11:30 AM – Tour Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park. Closed in January and August. In January and August, tour the Old Red Museum of Dallas County.
11:30 – 11:45 AM – Drive to the West End.
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM – Lunch in the West End.
12:45 PM – 1:30 PM – Walk to and view 1840s replica of the John Nealy Bryan Cabin, the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial, Dealey Plaza, the Triple Underpass, and the grassy knoll.
1:30 – 3:30 PM – Tour The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. This is where Lee Harvey Oswald was located when he shot President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on Friday, November 22, 1963.
3:30 – 3:45 PM – Drive to Pioneer Plaza with its statues of 50 steer and 3 cowboys and Pioneer Cemetery with burials from the 1853 – 1920s.
3:45 – 4:30 PM – Tour Pioneer Plaza and Pioneer Cemetery.
4:30 – 5:30 PM – Drive to and tour Oak Cliff, including the Texas Theater, where Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested.
5:30 – 5:50 PM – Drive to the hotel.
5:50 – 7:15 PM – Relax at the hotel.
7:15 – 7:30 PM – Drive to Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament
7:30 – 10:00 PM – Shopping, dinner, jousting, and show set in the Middle Ages.
10:00 – 10:20 PM – Drive to the hotel.
Day 3
8:00 – 9:00 AM – Breakfast.
9:00 – 10:00 AM – Tour North Dallas suburbs of Addison, Richardson, Plano, and Parker.
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM – Tour Southfork Ranch, the setting for the television series “Dallas.”
12:00 – 3:00 PM – Drive through the Park Cities, White Rock Lake, Upper and Lower Greenville, Swiss Munger, Deep Ellum, and downtown. Stop for lunch at one of the restaurants on Greenville. (If this is part of a 4 to 6 day tour, the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens is included and the day of touring goes on to 5:00 PM before returning to the hotel.
