Dallas Arboretum - Dallas TX
Nov 26, 2022
Written By: H.Couch
From Denver to Dallas for Thanksgiving weekend. Tis the season to celebrate holiday festivities in the Dallas metro area. One of the must do Dallas Christmas activities was to visit the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden. Sitting along the south end of White Rock Lake, the Arboretum is the combined property of two different families, Everette DeGolyer and Nell Goodrich DeGolyer and Alex Camp and Roberta Coke Camp. The properties were both purchased by Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Society, the DeGolyer property in 1977 and the Camp property in 1980. The gardens opened to the public in 1984.
During the summer we visited and walked the beautiful gardens and landscape. It is a very pretty botanical garden with lots of beautiful plants and flowers. But during the holidays they decorate with a Christmas Village and holiday lights wrapped around many of the trees. The biggest attraction is the 12 days of Christmas. A Partridge in a Pear Tree, Eight Maids-a-Milking, Ten Lords-a-Leaping. However, the Lords looked more like they were just ice-skating, maybe there was a leap in there somewhere. You can wander from scene to scene or randomly throughout the park as you wish. We didn’t really feel like the layout was set up to easily go from one to the other in chronological order. It felt like you had to jump around to get them in order.
Down by the lake they have a giant electric Musical Christmas tree that does a light show every half an hour to music which is kind of cool. In Denver, they do have the same kind of tree set up at Civic Park which we hear is the biggest in the United States. Sorry Texas, not everything is bigger!
There were lots of people wandering around enjoying the lights but plenty of room to spread out and enjoy for yourself. If you are in Dallas for the holiday season check it out for a night out. It runs until December 31st and you can purchase tickets online at Holiday at the Arboretum.
Thanks for wandering with us,
The Wandering Couchs
