Best Parks & Gardens in Texas

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.