Trinity Trails

 The Fort Worth Trinity Trails are a great place for locals to run and cycle while enjoying the fresh air and beautiful sights. The trails forms a spider web path throughout the city and its suburbs. The Fort Worth Branch of the trails makes up about 88-miles and follows along either side of the Trinity River.

Trinity Park

Trinity Park is a great place to go with your friends and family. They have a few different play grounds, picnic tables and a rock path that crosses the river. This is probably the most popular area of the Trinity Trails. The park is also where festivals take place like Mayfest. Mayfest is an annual event that takes place in the park for one weekend. They have stages set up for performers, food and drinks, live music and craft vendors. Mayfest also promotes The Trinity River Vision and informs attendees of their future plan.

Panther Island Pavilion

Another popular and well known area of the Trinity Trails is Panther Island Pavilion. This area has a beach for people to hang out and they have an area to rent supplies like kayaks, canoes and paddle boards. Panther Island also has two stages that are set up for live concerts they have during the warmer seasons. Some of the more popular events held at Panther Island are Rockin' the River, Oktoberfest, Untapped Fest and Fort Worth's Annual Music Festival. 

Overall, the Trinity Trails are a great place to hang out with family and friends, while it is also a great place to work out. The city of Fort Worth is working to add onto the trails and make them a more common place for locals to hang out. 

One of the future plans is to have water taxis, riverboat dining, gondolas, kayaks and other boats transport people from the future Stockyards Marina, through downtown and into Trinity Park.

What do you think? Do these Trinity Trail plans make you interested in checking it out? What else would you like to see them add to the trails? 

Botanic Garden

One of the most beautiful places in Fort Worth is the Botanic Gardens, it is a sanctuary for the senses and located just about 3 miles from downtown. Fort Worth’s Botanic Garden is actually the oldest in Texas and is 110-acres. The Garden is home to over 2,500 species of native and exotic plants that flourish in its 23 specialty gardens.

There are a variety of different gardens. Some of them include the Conservatory, the Japanese Gardens, the Rose Gardens, Fragrance Garden, Cactus Garden, a Native Texas Boardwalk and much more. 

Special Events

One of the paths leading to the Rose Garden

The Botanic Garden has many special events to offer such as their yearly butterfly exhibit, Concerts in the Garden, plant sales and festivals. Weddings are also a very common event to take place in the gardens. This is one of the best places to get married in North Texas and is an award-winning venue. They have eight different venue options within the 110 acres. All the venues are located in different areas in the gardens and each location can hold a different number of guests. You can have anywhere from 60 to 300 guests.

The gardens are also a great place to bring friends and loved one. You can have a relaxing walk or enjoy a picnic on the extremely green grass. It's really exciting to explore, see all the different plants and smell the beautiful aromas. 

The Botanic Gardens can easily be an all day outing. They have a restaurant, two gift shops and eight gardens to explore. There is so much beauty here that it would be easy to stay all day.

The gardens are also a great place for pictures. Whether you are taking family pictures, graduation pictures or wedding pictures, the garden will provide the perfect backdrop. No matter what season it is, you are sure to see beautiful flowers and plants. 

New Discovery 

I also just discovered something great, the Botanic Gardens has a Compost Outpost, dedicated to teaching and advising visitors about composting in their backyard. It is a free event that takes place the second Saturday of every month.  This is actually something I have been very interested in for a while now.

Tweets

Make sure to check my twitter to read my live tweets from the Botanic Gardens using #fallinthegardens and #FtWorthgardens. Andre Robertson has worked at the Botanic Gardens for 22 years. Watch him talk about the gardens on my twitter along with Travis Sebold talking about his favorite of all the gardens. 

Have you ever been to the Botanic Gardens in Fort Worth? What is your favorite of all the gardens? Or which would you like to visit the most? 

Some of the fall decorations in the gardens