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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.
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