Looking to travel to Dallas to check out the city in October. Will be travelling with an 8 month old and my wife. Is the city easy to get around? Good time to travel? Any parts where I should be looking for hotels or areas to avoid? Good places to site-see/walk around?
Thanks!!
Public transportation is not great. It's a car area. And Dallas drivers are aggressive.
October is good. It should cool down a little by then, so you don't feel like you're swimming through the city.
As for hotels, it depends on what you're looking for. Dallas ranges everywhere from little hotels that are cheap, to stuff like the Omni which is not cheap, to even more exclusive places like The Mansion or Hotel Zaza.
As for walking around and sight-seeing, the Dallas Center for Architecture has a 90 minute walking tour through the Arts District. You're pretty much looking at walking in the Arts District, West End, and the Fairgrounds area. If you get a sitter for the kid one night, you can wander around Deep Ellum. We have a great sculpture garden (Nasher Sculpture Garden) near the Aquarium, which is also near the Modern, also near the Holocaust museum, the House of Blues, and Dealy Plaza.
Depending on how long you're here, you might want to check out Ft Worth, which has a better Modern Art Museum, and whose great museums are all within a couple blocks of each other.
Look up the Fairgrounds and the Dallas Science Museum. The DSM is great for kids, and it's on the Fairgrounds which is full of art deco sculpture and often has events going.
Oh, the Texas State Fair will be going on at the Fairgrounds! So you can definitely enjoy that. Eat fried things that shouldn't be fried, listen to music, etc.
