Best Parks & Gardens in Texas
3 parks & gardens in Texas
Botanical gardens, city parks and playgrounds.
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Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden
Dallas, Texas
A 66-acre botanical showcase with 1.4 million plants a year, big-name art installations, and a hands-on STEM garden for kids.
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Texas Discovery Gardens
Dallas, Texas
An organic Fair Park oasis where free-flying butterflies share trails with garden trains.
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Zilker Botanical Garden
Austin, Texas
A downtown Austin garden weaving Japanese, prehistoric, and rose plantings into one oasis.
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Texas has 3 parks & gardens we would happily take our own kids to. Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden is the one most families start with. A 66-acre botanical showcase with 1.4 million plants a year, big-name art installations, and a hands-on STEM garden for kids. Texas Discovery Gardens is the other name that comes up again and again. An organic Fair Park oasis where free-flying butterflies share trails with garden trains. Zilker Botanical Garden rounds out the pick of the bunch. A downtown Austin garden weaving Japanese, prehistoric, and rose plantings into one oasis.
Tickets at Zilker Botanical Garden start from $3 per person. The rest of the list does not publish a set price, so confirm admission on the official site.
The parks & gardens on this page are spread across Dallas (2) and Austin (1), so it is easy to pair two into one trip.