Getting Around
Downtown, taxis are available, and there's frequent bus service costing $1.
You’ll need a car to travel elsewhere.
Best-known Attractions
Dealey Plaza is a hike to the west. Nearby, there's
The Sixth Floor, an exhibit on the sixth floor of the former
SchoolBook Depository at 411 Elm St.
Two blocks away is the Conspiracy Museum, 110 S Market, with exhibits on the two
Kennedy assassinations, Lincoln's death, plus plane crashes and other events that have
evoked conspiracy theories.
North of downtown is the Biblical Arts Center, at 7500 Park Lane, just west of
US-75, with early-Christian-era architecture and some amazing religious art.
State Fair Park, 2 miles to the east, was the site of the 1936 Texas Centennial
Fair. It is home to a variety of museums, including the local Holocaust Museum and
Railroad Museum, and to the Texas Star—the largest Ferris wheel in the US.
For more information...
Consult several of these books; they’re very different, and cover different things
well.
AAA’s Texas Tourbook is a good introduction.
Mobil’s Southwest & South Tour Guide lists many more attractions, as
well as restaurants in the area.
The Texas Handbook by Joe Cummings gives much more detail than the other guides,
listing more indi-vidual establishments and giving better descriptions.
The Rough Guide USA is a cost-conscious guide, written from the
young-wanderer’s perspective.
The Convention and Visitors Bureau, 1201 Elm St (800)CDALLAS. The Dallas
Visitor's Information Center has booths at 1303 Commerce St and at the entrance to the
West End Marketplace. 24-hour special-events hotline: (214) 746-6679.
The Dallas Observer and The Met are the weekly local papers of things
to do. |
