Old City Park — Attraction in Dallas

For $6 children's ticks and $10 adult's tickets, I would highly recommend checking out the Dallas Heritage Village. This outdoor museum is a collection of historic houses significant to the creation of Dallas and is a beautifully preserved relic of what life was like decades ago.

There are some residential building which are fun to walk through to see the different decorational styles that were popular back in the day and it's fun to imagine yourself living in these homes. The residential homes vary in age so you can see how technological advancements changed the way people lived their lives. Unfortunately, all the homes are from affluent families so we're unable to see what normal people lived like back then.

There are also several commercial or culturally relevant building on site which are beautifully preserved to show what life was like back then. There is detailed information on what functions these building may have served back then and how the community may have gone around interaction with each other in their walls. There is also interested information on how Dallas grew to be the size it is today. There is also a functioning salon with drinks and a functional general store which has gift shop items available for purchase.

They asked all guests to wear masks whenever indoors but allowed visitors to remove masks when outdoors. No vaccination statuses were checked and all...

Disclaimer: As a kid i wished Laura Ingalls Wilder and my nockname was half pint. I loved outhouses, they seemed like the perfect hiding place and this living museum has plenty of them.Our family decided this would be the perfect educational trip to cap off our Spring Break week for 2011. We used a discount coupon that allowed us a 2 for 1 admission deal. Admission cost for a family of seven totaled,$31. We walked into a gunfight. Yep you heard me right and it wasn't finished, the next one was in less than an hour, make sure you get there a lil bit early so you can catch a good view. Afterwards, the family and I strolled down Main St, we visited the inside of an old post office, bank, saloon( for root beers and peanuts and a poker game) schoolhouse( we acted out a skit),church, blacksmith shop, potters' shed, Worth Hotel, even a bomb shelter, behind the purple Victorian house. I was in LaLa land. I could've wandered the streets in the village for hours, who knew that such a wonderful gem was tucked away in Dallas. I'm definitely going back because I didn't get to visit all the 38 structures and I'm taking my mom with me next time. When you go be sure to take a camera, I did and I came away with over 200 photos in...

This free park has plenty of parking and is full of beautiful buildings ranging in time from the mid 1800s to early 1900s. They were moved here from all over the Dallas area and rebuilt on the site of the original spring that fed Dallas its water in the early days. Unfortunately, they seem to be falling into disrepair due to lack of funding. When we visited everything was a little overgrown and shabby. No events were being held and there was no staff or security in the park. Most buildings have signs giving you a very brief insight into their history but that's all. Everything was locked. In a few cases you can peer into a window. The fountain was running which was nice. I love history and you can see the care and passion that went into securing these buildings and creating this park. However, that now seems to be missing. Signs telling you to be careful when visiting the petting zoo hang on rotten posts. Buildings have signs saying they are being repaired that themselves now need repair. It gives ghost town vibes or being on an abandoned movie set. If you have time I think this is still worth a visit if only to show the powers that be that the history is important and should be preserved better...