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Fair Park & Big Tex
Texas flexes here every October — Art Deco bones under funnel-cake smoke.
The story
Texas flexes here every October — Art Deco bones under funnel-cake smoke.
Fair Park is a National Historic Landmark Art Deco campus built for the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition. Big Tex, the giant cowboy mascot, towers over the State Fair of Texas midway every fall (rebuilt after the 2012 fire). Year-round museums fill the historic buildings.
Sources: Wikimedia — Dallas Fair Park Esplanade · Wikimedia — Big Tex
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Visitor tips
Show up ready.
- Hours: Park grounds vary; State Fair is separately ticketed
- Parking: Fair Park lots
- Best photo: Esplanade reflecting pool; Big Tex during the Fair
- Best time: State Fair season for Big Tex
- Free: No
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10 points for this landmark. Points live on this phone for now.
Address
3809 Grand Ave, Dallas, TX 75210
Photo credit: Photo: Andreas Praefcke / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0