Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in Dallas
Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in Dallas? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — Coombs Creek Trail Tiny Doors & Gnomes, Dragon Park, Lakeside Park Teddy Bears and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Dallas they'd never find on their own.
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Coombs Creek Trail Tiny Doors & Gnomes
Along this quiet creekside trail in Kessler Park, someone has been quietly installing tiny arched doors in th…
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Dragon Park
A small, semi-secret privately owned garden at Cedar Springs and Hood, built by the owner of the salon across…
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Lakeside Park Teddy Bears
Tucked into a pocket just off a picturesque wooden bridge along Turtle Creek sit a family of granite teddy be…
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Lady of the Lake roadside (East Lawther Drive, White Rock Lake)
Dallas's signature ghost: a young woman in a water-soaked 1930s evening dress said to appear at night along E…
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Cedars Bowler Hat & Stanley's Umbrella
A pair of oddball roadside sculptures a few blocks apart in The Cedars: a steel-and-fiberglass giant bowler h…