We did two outdoor field trips in Grapevine, Texas, this week. We went to Founders' Plaza Observation Area and we walked the Grapevine Botanical Gardens at Heritage Park.
Founders' Plaza at DFW Airport is a free parking lot with observation area overlooking the airport runways: https://www.dfwairport.com/explore/plan/foundersplaza/. You can watch the aircraft fly overhead and land on the runways. You can also watch the aircraft take off from the runways. Founder's Plaza sits at a higher elevation than the airport and you can see for miles. You're able to hear the airport control tower through speakers at the observation area. There are a few built-in telescopes around the plaza for spotting the planes.
This was more fun that I thought it would be. We spent about an hour here watching the planes land and take off. We combined the plane-watching with the app Flightradar24, which is a live flight tracker. We could see where the aircraft were coming from and what type of aircraft it was in real time.
Grapevine Botanical Gardens at Heritage Park is also free. Parking is free. A large playground shares a fence-line with the botanical gardens with a gate leading from the gardens to the playground. Paved trails wind through the gardens. Here's some pictures:
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