Downtown Dallas & Reunion Tower

Our route notes suggest 2 nights in Downtown Dallas & Reunion Tower. On our Dallas New Year's Eve route it is stop 1 of 2 in a 3-day trip. The listed visit times for our 7 places add up to roughly 13 hours, before travel between them, so you will need to choose.

Reunion Tower's midnight fireworks, river viewing spots and big-night dinners; two nights. Standouts on our list: Reunion Tower (The 561-foot tower with an LED globe; at midnight on Dec 31 it launches Lone Star NYE, a 360-degree fireworks, light and drone show); Ronald Kirk Bridge (The old Continental Avenue bridge over the Trinity, now a pedestrian park with shade sails and a straight view of the downtown skyline); Trinity Groves (A cluster of restaurants and patios in West Dallas at the foot of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, facing the skyline and the tower).

Our Dallas New Year's Eve route is best Dec 30 – Jan 1. NASA POWER 2001–2025 averages for nearby Dallas put the warmest highs in August (36°C / 97°F), the coolest in January (13°C / 55°F) and the most rain in May (about 116 mm).

Start with Reunion Tower, Trinity Groves and Ronald Kirk Bridge. Our guide lists 7 places in all, from 2 sights, 1 activity, 2 places to eat, 1 bar or café and 1 place to stay.

Our picks: Fearing's (Uptown); Al Biernat's (Oak Lawn). Reserve in November; New Year's Eve menus sell out (Fearing's).

The closest destinations in our guides are Dallas (about 1 km / 1 mi), Bishop Arts District (about 3 km / 2 mi) and Wichita Mountains (about 281 km / 174 mi). Distances are straight-line estimates, not road distances.