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The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is a large area in the Prairies and Lakes region of Texas.

[edit] Cities

[edit] Dallas area

• Addison
• Carrollton
• Dallas
• Duncanville
• Garland
• Lewisville
• Mesquite
• Plano
• Richardson

[edit] Fort Worth area

• Fort Worth
• Haltom City
• North Richland Hills
• Mansfield
• Saginaw
• Watauga
• White Settlement

[edit] Mid Cities

• Arlington
• Colleyville
• Grand Prairie — located in the center of the Metroplex with something for everyone: horse racing, shopping, outdoor recreation, museums and a variety of restaurants.
• Grapevine
• Hurst-Euless-Bedford
• Keller
• Irving
• Southlake

[edit] Other destinations

[edit] Lakes

• Eagle Mountain Lake
• Joe Pool Lake
• Lake Arlington
• Lake Benbrook
• Lake Lewisville
• Lake Worth
• White Rock Lake

[edit] Understand

Understand that Dallas/Fort Worth is very large and sprawled over a vast area of Northeast Texas. It is wedged between the Cross Timbers and Blackland Prairie regions of the state.

[edit] Talk

[edit] Get in

Coming into Dallas from the west (Fort Worth) there are four major freeways: I-20 in the southern part of the city, I-30 bisecting the middle of the city, and Highway 360/Highway 114 merging with the major North/South thoroughfare (I-35E) in the northwest part of the city.

As far as North/South thoroughfares, I-35E and I-45 come into the city from the south. I-35 continues past downtown and into Oklahoma, while I-45 becomes I-75/Central Expressway at the downtown interchange. Coming north out of downtown there are I-35E, I-75/Central Expressway and the Dallas North Tollway.

Fort Worth receives I-20, I-30/Tom Landry Freeway, and Highway 360 on its Eastern edge as these thoroughfares come in from Dallas. Fort Worth is "looped" by the ever-popular Loop 820.

[edit] Get around

The Metroplex area is simple to get around. A large network of freeways and loops exists throughout Dallas/Fort Worth.

DART is the public transportation system in Dallas, operating an extensive bus and rail network. For stays in the downtow/uptown Dallas area, the rail network can be a very inexpensive and efficient way to travel.

Nearby Fort Worth operates "The T". Primarily a bus system, The T does operate a train which travels between downtown Fort Worth and Dallas, interchanging with DART rail upon reaching Dallas.

Visitors from certain parts of the country might find the freeway/tollway system a bit confusing, especially at interchanges such as the huge "High Five" in North Dallas. However, the freeways are by far the best way to get around a city of this size.

Dallas is surrounded by three circular freeways, or "loops": Loop 12/Northwest Highway being the innermost, I-635/Lyndon Baines Johnson Freeway being the intermediate, and the George Bush turnpike being the outermost. (Although for now the Bush turnpike is only a half-loop in North Dallas.)

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[edit] Get out

• Denton

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