Things to Do in Fort Worth

The office holiday party is the one evening when people who spend all year answering “quick question” emails get to talk about something else. A private Cowboy Pub Crawl gives your group a shared plan in the Fort Worth Stockyards: a local guide, a few bars, and stories about the characters who shaped Cowtown. It…

Yes, and the Cowboy Pub Crawl has room for every kind of order, including none. The Stockyards has stories for the person holding a beer and the person nursing a soda. Fort Worth Crawling’s Cowboy Pub Crawl welcomes guests who want the history and social stops without ordering alcohol. Drinks cost extra, and no one…

A building completed in 88 working days sounds like a deadline story that would make a modern contractor ask for the project manager’s notes. In the Fort Worth Stockyards, that sprint produced Cowtown Coliseum, a venue that helped turn the city’s livestock economy into a public spectacle. It opened in 1908 as the Grand Coliseum,…

November in Fort Worth has a way of changing the scenery between lunch and dinner. Longhorns walk down Exchange Avenue, downtown fills with glowing parade floats, and the Stockyards welcomes a stagecoach-riding Cowboy Santa. The month brings plenty of reasons to make room in your calendar, plus a daily dose of the city’s Wild West…

A great Fort Worth Stockyards date night combines one shared spectacle, a relaxed meal, a playful activity and an easy next stop if the evening still has momentum. In this neighborhood, that can mean Longhorns at 4:00 p.m., dinner in Mule Alley, a 7:00 p.m. history tour pub crawl and live music after 9:00. The…

The Fort Worth Stockyards history tour pub crawl combines guided sightseeing, local stories and visits to saloons in one adults-only experience. You walk through the historic district with an expert guide, hear the hidden and hilarious history behind Cowtown and stop for drinks with a small group of fellow travelers. Think social city tour with…

One day in the Fort Worth Stockyards can fit a historic museum, the famous cattle drive, a Texas-sized lunch, brick-street wandering, a history tour pub crawl and an evening rodeo or live music. The secret is choosing a few strong anchors and leaving enough room for spontaneous boot shopping, because the Stockyards has a way…

The best Fort Worth corporate outings make conversation easy, give the group a shared experience and leave everyone with at least one story worth repeating at the next meeting. The Stockyards handles that assignment beautifully with cattle drives, Western history, group dining, rodeo action and saloons that have considerably more personality than a conference-room refreshment…

October 2026 lands in Fort Worth with cowboy poetry, college football, street art, live orchestras and a calendar collision on October 24 that deserves its own traffic controller. The best things to do in Fort Worth this month include exploring the Stockyards, cheering at TCU, wandering ArtsGoggle and catching one of several very different nights…

The Fort Worth Livestock Exchange Building earned the nickname “Wall Street of the West” because it served as the business nerve center of one of the country’s most important livestock markets. Cattle changed hands, commission companies negotiated deals, telegraph messages arrived and railroad offices kept animals moving. The currency had hooves, but the pace was…