Child’s Play Directory
68 Awesome Things To Do With Your Kids
Urban Adventures
• Tower of the Americas San Antonio
600 Hemisfair Plaza Way, 210-207-8615 or toweroftheamericas.com
• Cowtown Cattlepen Maze Fort Worth
145 E. Exchange Ave., 817-624-6666 or cowtowncattlepenmaze.com
• Bat Watching Austin and Houston
Austin: Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge at Lady Bird Lake.
Houston: Waugh Drive Bridge at Buffalo Bayou
• Water Taxis San Antonio
Thirty-nine stops along the River Walk. riosanantonio.com
Wildlife
• Fort Worth Zoo Fort Worth
1989 Colonial Pkwy., 817-759-7555 or fortworthzoo.com
• Fossil Rim Wildlife Center Glen Rose
2155 County Road 2008, 254-897-2960 or fossilrim.org
• Sea Turtles Galveston
4700 Avenue U, 409-766-3670 or galveston.ssp.nmfs.gov
• Bill and Eva Williams Bear Habitat, Waco
Along Fifth, just east of Dutton Ave.; 254-710-3322 or baylor.edu
Texas History
• Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin
1800 N. Congress Ave., 512-936-8746 or thestoryoftexas.com
• Fort Davis National Historic Site, Fort Davis
Near the intersection of Texas Hwys. 17 and 118, 432-426-3224, ext. 20, or nps.gov/foda
• Seminole Canyon State Park Comstock
Nine miles west of Comstock along U.S. 90, 432-292-4464 or tpwd.state.tx.us
• San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site and Museum of History, La Porte
About 10 miles east of Pasadena off Texas Hwy. 225. Battleground and battleship Texas: 281-479-2431 or tpwd.state.tx.us. Museum: 281-479-2421 or sanjacinto-museum.org
• San Antonio Missions San Antonio
Starting downtown at the intersection of Houston and Alamo streets and continuing south along the Mission Trail, 210-932-1001 or nps.gov/saan
Hotels and Resorts
• Willow Point Resort Buchanan Dam
427 Ellison, 512-793-5000 or willowpointresort.com
• Great Wolf Lodge, Grapevine
100 Great Wolf Dr., 800-693-9653 or greatwolf.com
• Rough Creek Lodge, Glen Rose
5165 County Road 2013, 800-864-4705 or roughcreek.com
• The Woodlands Resort, The Woodlands
2301 N. Millbend Dr., 800-433-2624 or woodlandsresort.com
• Lost Pines Resort and Spa Lost Pines
575 Hyatt Lost Pines Rd., 512-308-1234 or lostpines.hyatt.com
Back To Nature
• Big Bend National Park
432-477-2251 or nps.gov/bibe/
• Dinosaur Valley State Park Glen Rose
Five miles west of Glen Rose on FM 205, 254-897-4588 or tpwd.state.tx.us
• BR Lightning Ranch, Pipe Creek
Less than a mile west of Pipe Creek on FM 1283, 800-994-7373 or lightningranch.com
• Elkins Ranch Palo Duro Canyon
Twenty-five miles south of Amarillo on Texas Hwy. 217, 806-488-2100 or theelkinsranch.com
• Enchanted Rock Fredericksburg
Eighteen miles north of Fredericksburg on Ranch Road 965, 830-685-3636 or tpwd.state.tx.us
• Isla Mujeres Mexico
isla-mujeres.net/home.htm
Dining
• Babe’s Chicken Dinner House Roanoke
104 N. Oak, 817-491-2900 or babeschicken.com
• EZ’s Brick Oven Grille, San Antonio
6498 N. New Braunfels, 210-828-1111 or ezsrestaurants.com
• Wild About Harry’s, Dallas
3113 Knox, 214-520-3113 or wildaboutharrys.com
• Phil’s Icehouse Austin
5620 Burnet Rd., 512-524-1212 or philsicehouse.com
• The Breakfast Klub, Houston
3711 Travis, 713-528-8561 or thebreakfastklub.com
Museums
• Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary McKinney
One Nature Pl., 972-562-5566 or heardmuseum.org
• Nasher Sculpture Center Dallas
2001 Flora, 214-242-5100 or nashersculpturecenter.org
• Texas Sports Hall of Fame Waco
1108 S. University Parks Dr., 254-756-1633 or tshof.org
• Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum Canyon
2503 Fourth Ave., 806-651-2244 or panhandleplains.org
Run Wild
• Creative Playscape Georgetown
1003 N. Austin Ave., 512-930-3595 or parks.georgetown.org
• NorthPark Center, Dallas
8687 N. Central Expwy., 214-363-7441 or northparkcenter.com
• BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Hindu Temple, Stafford
1150 Brand Ln., 281-765-2277 or swaminarayan.org
Children’s Museums
• Children’s Museum of Houston, Houston
1500 Binz, 713-522-1138 or cmhouston.org
• Children’s Museum at the Museum of Nature and Science Dallas
3535 Grand Ave. and 1318 S. Second Ave., 214-428-5555 or dallaschildrens.org
• Austin Children’s Museum, Austin
201 Colorado, 512-472-2499 or austinkids.org
• San Antonio Children’s Museum San Antonio
305 E. Houston, 210-212-4453 or sakids.org
• McKenna Children’s Museum New Braunfels
801 W. San Antonio, 830-620-0939 or nbchildren.org
• Imaginarium of South Texas Laredo
5300 San Dario, 956-728-0404 or imaginariumstx.org
Attractions
• Moody Gardens Galveston
One Hope Blvd., 800-582-4673 or moodygardens.com
• The Ships of Christopher Columbus Corpus Christi
1900 N. Chaparral, 361-826-4667 or ccmuseum.com
• The Dr Pepper Plant, Dublin
105 E. Elm, 888-398-1024 or dublindrpepper.com
• USS Lexington Museum on the Bay, Corpus Christi
Just offshore from downtown Corpus Christi, 800-523-9539 or usslexington.com
• Blue Bell Creamery Brenham
1101 S. Blue Bell Rd., 800-327-8135 or bluebell.com
Sports and Activities
• Donkey Basketball Throckmorton
940-849-0222
• Frisco RoughRiders Frisco
7300 RoughRiders Trail, 972-731-9200 or ridersbaseball.com
• Ice Skating Austin, Dallas, and Houston
Whole Foods Market: 525 N. Lamar Blvd., 512-476-1206 or wholefoodsmarket.com.
Galleria Dallas: 13350 Dallas Pkwy., 972-702-7100 or galleriadallas.com.
Galleria Houston: 5085 Westheimer Rd., 713-966-3500 or galleriahouston.com
• Cool Crest Miniature Golf San Antonio
1400 Fredericksburg Rd., 210-732-0222
Trains and Railroads
• The Grapevine Vintage Railroad Grapevine
817-410-3123 or gvrr.com
• Zilker Zephyr Austin
512-478-8286 ci.austin.tx.us/zilker/
• Brackenridge Eagle, San Antonio
210-735-7455 or sazoo-aq.org
• Hermann Park Train, Houston
713-524-5876 or hermannpark.org
Water Fun
• Deep Eddy Austin
401 Deep Eddy Dr., 512-472-8546 or austinparks.org
• Artesian Springs Resort Newton
Three miles east of FM 2626 on County Road 2016, 409-379-8826 or artesianspringsresort.com
• Tubing Down the Frio Lodging information at friocanyonchamber.com/lodging.htm.
River conditions at waterdata.usgs.gov/tx/nwis/
• Breakaway Charters South Padre
33396 State Park Rd., 956-761-2212 or breakawaycruises.com
• Burger’s Lake Fort Worth
1200 Meandering Way Rd., 817-737-3414 or burgerslake.com
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