The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex approaches the holidays at Texas scale, from one of the country's most famous residential lighting traditions in Highland Park to the working-cowboy character of the Fort Worth Stockyards. The size of the region means each city in the metroplex has its own distinct holiday identity.

• Highland Park Lighting: The annual lighting of Armstrong Parkway draws crowds to one of the longest-running residential holiday displays in the Southwest.
• Fort Worth Stockyards: The historic cattle district preserves a Western Christmas tradition, with carriage rides, longhorn cattle drives, and country-music programming.
• Reunion Tower and Klyde Warren Park: The Reunion Tower GeO-Deck and the deck park over the freeway host the central public holiday displays in downtown Dallas.
• Texas Holiday Tables: Smoked brisket from Lockhart-tradition spots, Czech-Texan kolaches from bakeries west of Dallas, and tamale orders from Oak Cliff anchor the metroplex's holiday food, paired with Neiman Marcus's annual Christmas Book catalog out of downtown Dallas.
  
  Photo Credit: Visit Fort Worth