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Sports fans can get
their fix in every major sport without leaving the Metroplex. The Texas Motor
Speedway holds over 150,000 fans in far north Fort Worth along the historic Chisholm
Trail and The Doral Tesoro Hotel is so close you can smell the
tires burning from your hotel room.
Bet
on a favorite horse or relax with good food while watching the fast horses compete
at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie . The Family Fun Park , the adjacent outdoor
area, is a venue for outdoor events, family-oriented attractions, festivals, and
concerts. Not far from the horse racing
action is the Midway of the Metroplex in Arlington where much of the family fun
occurs. Six Flags Over Texas amusement park is next to the Texas Rangers' home
field at The Ballpark in Arlington while Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Water Park
is across the way and the Place of Wax Museum and Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Are just down the road. Amerisuites Grand Prairie, Country
Inn, Wyndham Arlington, and Hilton Arlington
are in the area. The Dallas
Cowboys games and the Byron Nelson golf tournament are in Irving . The
Sterling Hotel is a good spot to stay when going to Irving and to the
Market Center . The Colonial golf tournament is held in Fort Worth . Dallas Mavericks
basketball, Dallas Stars hockey, and Dallas Desperados indoor football teams play
in the American Airlines Center . The Dallas Sidekicks indoor soccer team plays
at Reunion Arena, not far from the American Airlines Center . The
Dallas Burn outdoor soccer team plays at the Cotton Bowl, also the home of the
annual Texas - OU ( Oklahoma University ) Red River Shootout football clash during
the State Fair. Right in the middle of a hustling and bustling, early fall, the
State Fair of Texas is a three-week event taking place in September - October
when the hot temperatures have usually disappeared. The
Dallas Aquarium, the Dallas Museum of Natural History, the Women's Museum, the
African American Museum, the Science Place, IMAX theater and planetarium, and
other museums live in Fair Park for easy access between the fair and museums.
It's a great place to park the family and spend the day or a few days. Dallas
is the home to the JFK Memorial from a period of the city's darkest day in history,
November 22, 1963 , the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dealey
Plaza. The Sixth Floor Museum chronicles the assassination and the President's
legacy. A block from Dealey Plaza is the Kennedy Memorial Plaza, a quiet area
appropriate for reflection and remembrance. The
city of Dallas set aside 60 acres of on the north side of downtown for its Arts
District comprises of the Dallas Museum of Art, the sparkling new Nasher Sculpture
Center, the Crow Collection of Asian Art, the Meyerson Symphony Center, the Annette
Strauss Artist Square, and a few more in the planning stages. Crescent
Court, Fairmont, Hyatt Regency Dallas Reunion,
and Hotel Lawrence are well-located for those who wish to visit
the Arts District, Fair Park, and Dealey Plaza . More-->> | 
