Spring is peeking over the horizon and there’s so much going on in DFW. Embrace the blossoming flowers, exciting exhibitions, and the array of other activities while the weather begins to warm up.
Read on to discover awesome things to do in Dallas this March!
1. Head over to Dallas Arboretum for the annual Dallas Blooms festival
Embrace the colors of spring in all their beauty at Dallas Arboretum’s stunning annual Dallas Blooms festival now open through April 13.
“The spring festival showcases an explosion of color from 100 varieties of spring bulbs, 500,000 spring-blooming blossoms, thousands of azaleas, and hundreds of Japanese cherry trees” as well as “a variety of themed programming, demonstrations, and more” reads the Dallas Arboretum website.
More information can be found here.
2. Check out the tulips at the Texas Tulips fields
Bring the bloom into your own home this spring beginning with a stroll through the florescent fields of tulips at Texas Tulips.
Located just north of Dallas in Pilot Point, Texas Tulips offers visitors an expanse of gorgeous tulip fields and the chance to pick their very own brightly colored spring blooms.
With spring just around the corner tulips season comes late February with a kaleidoscopic experience featuring over 100 varieties of tulips has opened to the public.
More information can be found here.
3. North Texas Irish Festival
One of the largest Irish celebrations in the country is set to paint the town green this March. North Texas Irish Festival is set to celebrate its 44th anniversary with a three-day takeover of Fair Park. Kicking off on March 6, the festival will uphold its tradition of highlighting traditional Irish music performances along with whiskey tasting, animal activities, and more!
4. SAW The Musical
One of horror’s most unsettling masterpieces gets a high-note makeover in SAW The Musical, a blood-spattered parody that reimagines the 2004 cult classic. We return to the grimy tiles of the world’s worst bathroom just as Lawrence Gordon and Adam Stanheight wake up to their new, melodic reality.
5. SENSAS
Prepare for a 75-minute adventure of the psyche at SENSAS, a boundary-pushing playground where your basic perceptions are flipped upside down. SENSAS is a sensory gauntlet that plunges your team into total darkness and kaleidoscopic workshops, forcing you to rely on primal instincts as your sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing are systematically challenged.
Under the watchful (and slightly chaotic) eye of the Master of Senses, you’ll tackle a series of eccentric trials designed to strip away your comfort zone and replace it with pure, adrenaline-fueled laughter. Get your tickets here!
6. Explore the Dallas Fair Park Farmers Market
On March 1, the City of Dallas and Good Local Markets are debuting the new weekly farmers market at Fair Park. Taking place on Sundays weekly, the farmers market will feature a curation of hyper-local vendors offering quality meat, fresh produce, and more in a fun, family-friendly atmosphere.
7. Shaq’s Bass All-Stars Festival
Sports commentator, former NBA All-Star, and bass DJ, Shaquille O’Neal aka DJ Diesel, is bringing back his larger-than-life music festival to Fort Worth this March. Featuring a stellar lineup of bass musicians personally selected by Shaq, himself, the festival promises to be the biggest bass music festival in Texas.
8. Java House Grand Prix of Arlington
Start your engines, folks, the inaugural Java House Grand Prix of Arlington is set to transform the DFW city into an all-out racetrack. Coursing through the likes of AT&T Stadium and Globe Life Field, the Grand Prix of Arlington will see a riveting series of INDYCAR races and demonstrations alongside a vibrant hub of fan zones, music performances, motorsports action, and festivities.
9. Glow or Go
Dallas’ Glow or Go reimagines the escape room genre as a high-octane, multi-sensory gauntlet across five distinct, immersive chambers. Instead of just scouring drawers for keys, your squad will be frantically dodging laser grids, sniping targets, and navigating physical obstacles that demand equal parts strategic brilliance and raw reflex. Every puzzle solved and challenge conquered fuels the momentum toward a legendary, paint-splattered finale that turns your victory into a literal explosion of color.
10. Marvel the magic of a Candlelight Concert
Enjoy a magical March experience with Fever Originals’ wildly popular Candlelight series.
Another year of breathtaking spectacles has begun in the Big D and talented musicians will be performing at extraordinary venues all over the city offering an enchanting combination of flickering candles and melodic sounds.
Can’t decide? Gift a loved one a Candlelight Concert with a Candlelight gift car.
Choose from concerts featuring jazz, rock, pop, classical music, and even movie soundtracks in spectacular venues around Dallas or any other city in the U.S. throughout the year.
See the full list of candlelight concerts taking place in Dallas here.
11. Join the Pickle Parade
The World’s only pickle parade returns this March with a citywide pickle festival and St. Patrick’s Day celebration. Mark your calendars for March 21 and enjoy live music, floats, and other pickle-based festivities!
12. Kick back in an AMC movie theatre
It’s awards season and so many fantastic movies of all kinds from all around the world are picking up their due recognition. There are so many different movies to see at the moment and there’s no place better to experience them than at AMC Theatres®.
Whether it’s a rainy afternoon or a special date night, all the best critically-acclaimed creations, comedies, action flicks, and everything in between can be enjoyed at a discount in Dallas, and nationally, with an AMC black ticket.
Grab discounted tickets to a movie showing here.
13. Sneak into a stylish speakeasy
There’s something special about speakeasies. The secretive, vicarious forbidden feel of transporting back to the prohibition or entering an establishment only known to the few in-the-know fellow attendees makes imbibing cocktails all the more tantalizing.
Here are a few of our favorite speakeasies in and around Dallas:
- Rare Books Bar is a bookish speakeasy that requires a password via phone booth to enter. Read more about it here.
- Room 520 at the SOVA Hotel is an intimate speakeasy adorned with Japanese-inspired decor selling six unique Kyoto-styled cocktails from the confounds of one secretive hotel room. Read more about it here.
14. Take A Spin In This Hidden Bowling Alley Inside Old Movie Theater
Bowlski’s Lakewood Theater is a multifaceted entertainment destination encompassing a live concert venue, candy counter, pool lounge, arcade, bar, and bowling alley. In the process of revitalizing this historic venue, the owners of Bowlski’s preserved as much as possible from its predecessor.
Remnants of the original theater are evident throughout Bowlski’s, with features such as the front mural showcasing iconic characters from bygone eras, the handrails on the stairway, the mirrored ceiling with a shared piano, and the stage, albeit renovated.
15. Dallas St. Patrick’s Parade and Festival
Paint the town green this March for Dallas’ massive St. Patrick’s Parade and Festival! Returning March 14, the Greenville Avenue celebration is set to draw over a hundred thousand attendees among around 100 floats running from 9 am to 3 pm but really probably beyond that.
16. Meow Wolf Grapevine
The wild and weird immersive art exhibition is a mind-bending journey through the surreal. Packed with incredible art pieces from local and national artists and fit with secret nooks and crannies, The Real Unreal is an absolute must visit and repeat visit.
17. Peppa Pig Theme Park
The long-anticipated 14-acre Peppa Pig-themed amusement park celebrates its one-year anniversary in North Richland Hills this March. Here, Peppa Pig fans can enjoy a full range of playscape, rides, interactive attractions, performances, and more!
18. Enjoy Live Comedy in Dallas
If you’re in need of a laugh, you’re in the right place. From headlining stand-ups to improv, special theater shows, and more: see what’s cooking at the best comedy clubs in Dallas. Where stand-up is concerned, performing comics in town this month include: Jo Toy, Taylor Tomlinson, Tom Papa, Wanda Sykes, and Jimmy O. Yang.
