Fort Worth Stockyards
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Fort Worth Stockyards

If Dallas has the bankers' skyline, Fort Worth kept the cattle — and still parades them down the street.

Free
To visit
Cattle drive times
Best time
Fort Worth
City
Northside
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The story

If Dallas has the bankers' skyline, Fort Worth kept the cattle — and still parades them down the street.

The Stockyards National Historic District is where Fort Worth earned Cowtown — cattle pens, Exchange Avenue, brick streets, and twice-daily longhorn drives that still roll for visitors. Boots, steakhouses, honky-tonks, and packinghouse-era architecture share the same blocks.

Sources: Fort Worth Stockyards · Wikimedia — Fort Worth Stockyards Exchange Ave

Visitor tips

Show up ready.

  • Hours: District always open; confirm cattle-drive times
  • Parking: Stockyards lots
  • Best photo: Longhorns on Exchange Ave under the Stockyards signs
  • Best time: Cattle drive times
  • Free: Yes

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Address

131 E Exchange Ave, Fort Worth, TX 76164

Photo credit: Mark Fisher / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0