This document provides a list of free and low-cost summer activities for teenagers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including museums, parks, and day trips. It recommends visiting art museums like the Kimbell Art Museum and Amon Carter Museum, exploring outdoor spaces such as the Fort Worth Botanic Garden and Cedar Ridge Preserve, and checking out unique accommodations for overnight trips. The list also suggests seeing a local production of The Music Man.

1. Oh What Do You Do in
the Summertime???
Or: Keeping Teenagers (and Mom) happy….(Mostly for free)

2. Fort Worth: Kimbell Art
Museum
Louis Kahn

6. Amon Carter Museum:
American Art
Philip Johnson

11. Modern Art Museum:
Fort Worth
Tadao
Ando

13. Fort Worth Stockyards

14. Fort Worth Botanic Garden

15. Sundance Square Plaza

16. Founders Plaza DFW
Airport

17. Dallas Museum of Art

19. Crow Collection of Asian Art

20. African American Museum
at Fair Park, Dallas

21. John F. Kennedy Memorial

22. Klyde Warren Park: Dallas

23. Cedar Ridge Preserve
Cedar Ridge Preserve is comprised of 640 acres of
preserved wilderness, including native-plant
nurseries and seven miles of hiking trails. Picnic area
and visitor center on premises.

24. Dallas Farmer’s Market

25. Day Trips (not free): Blue
Lagoon, Huntsville

26. Tiger Creek Wildlife
Refuge: Tyler

27. Dinosaur Valley State Park:
Near Glen Rose

28. Westcave Preserve: Round
Mountain (near Austin)

29. Unusual Places to Stay:
The TeePee Motel in Wharton

30. Settler’s Crossing B&B:
Fredricksburg

31. Indian Lodge: Fort Davis

32. It’s A Book

36. Aaaannnnnddd…..
See Lauren Neaves in The Music Man!