Cabela’s Fort Worth, Texas Retail Store is located at junction of state highway 170 and I-35W. In addition to offering quality outdoor merchandise, the massive 230,000 sq. ft. showroom is an educational and entertainment attractions, featuring a décor of museum-quality animal displays, huge aquariums and trophy animals interacting in realistic re-creations of their natural habitats.

In 2006 Cabela’s web site was ranked No. 1 in the outdoor retailer industry and the company was named Company of the Year in Sporting Classics magazine’s prestigious Awards of Excellence. Dick, Mary and Jim Cabela are members of the Sporting Goods Industry Hall of Fame, and Dick Cabela is a member of the Direct Marketing Association Hall of Fame. Over the years Cabela’s has received numerous recognitions for its work with conservation organizations. In addition, Cabela’s employees were instrumental in naming the company one of the Top 100 Companies to Work For in Fortune magazine’s January 2000 issue.

Despite the accolades and growth, Cabela’s continues to embrace the original philosophy that the customer is No. 1 – a philosophy instilled by company founders Jim and Dick Cabela. This dedication to the customer is just one of many reasons Cabela’s is what the family always knew it could be – a dream come true.

Each one-of-a-kind Sam Moon store puts you in touch with the distinctive energy, personality and pulse all around you. As you step inside, the humdrum of shopping, that sense of sameness evaporates. Our customer’s time with us is all about them – their comfort, lifestyle and fashion desires.

Designer inspired handbags and accessories at unbeatable prices draw a year-round holiday frenzy of stylish, trendy and affluent shoppers who not only come for the experience but to buy.

Established in 1984 as a wholesaler of women’s handbags, jewelry and accessories, it quickly became the “it” place to shop and when Moon lovers demanded more, it was time to expand. The company evolved over the years to address shoppers’ demands and the constant changing fashion industry.

What began with handbags and jewelry at the Sam Moon Trading Co., progressed to luggage and perfume at the Sam Moon Luggage & Gifts and then to home furnishings and accessories in the Sam Moon Home Décor Store.

With the expansion came other retailers who saw the opportunities to bank on the high-traffic, and these centers naturally became the premier shopping destinations.

This adrenaline rush attracts shoppers nationwide: tour buses inch through our parking lots, major hotel chains include gift certificates to Sam Moon stores in their hotel packages and media organizations gush about this phenomenon.

http://www.sammoongroup.com

Ladies and Gentlemen, start your engines! Take the green flag for a high-speed visit to one of the world’s largest and most modern sports and entertainment facilities.  The Texas Motor Speedway offers programs,  special events, driving experiences to involve fans of all ages.  Whether you into nascar or the Busch race,  this is the place to watch it first hand.  From the Hampton  Inn & Suites  Alliance/ Fort Worth start out going north on N Freeway,  merge onto I-35 N via the ramp on the left,  take Exit 70 toward Airport/ TX-114/ Dallas/ Bridgeport,  keep left at the fork to go on IH-35W Fwy,  turn sharp left onto TX-114 W / Highway 114,  Texas Motor Speedway is on the right.

Texas Motor Speedway, one of the largest sports and entertainment facilities in the country, provides the spectacular backdrop for The Speedway Club. The Speedway Club, a spectacular $30 million nine-story structure overlooking Turn 1 of the Speedway, offers extraordinary benefits to race fans and businesses all over the world. The Club offers members a whole new approach to the entertainment and health club experience. No detail has been overlooked from the imported Italian crystal chandeliers and rich wood paneling to the larger-than-life mural commissioned for the Texas Grand Ballroom.   At NASCAR Racing Experience, you can drive a real NASCAR race car from some of NASCAR’s greatest stars! Our fleet consists of the actual race cars that have been driven by current NASCAR drivers including 3-time, NASCAR Champion Jimmie Johnson, Dale Jr, Jeff Gordon and others NASCAR favorites.  Drive or ride in a 600 horsepower NASCAR race car with the premiere provider of high-quality driving and riding experiences.  Seven-time NASCAR Champion, Richard Petty has developed the most professional and memorable ride and drive experience on the market today. RPDE brings you the opportunity to ride shotgun with a professional instructor at speeds up to 165 mph and/or get behind the wheel yourself and make anywhere from 8 to 80 laps around Texas Motor Speedway.

Website:   http://www.texasmotorspeedway.com/Home.aspx

Address: 3601 Highway 114, Fort Worth, TX

Phone Number: (817) 215-8500

Hours of operation: For Tours: Mon – Fri 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.  Sat 10 a.m.- 5 p.m.    Sun 12 pm-5 pm

A name uncommonly know as an industry leader, Bell was the first to obtain certification for a commercial helicopter.  Providing more then 35,000 aircraft to customers all over the world.  From Company,  medical,  oil and gas, and even firefighters and police , Bell delivers the highest level of standards for all their customers.   From the Hampton Inn & Suites Alliance/ Fort Worth start out going north on N Freeway,  merge onto I-35 N via the ramp on the left,  merge onto I-820 E on the left,  take exit 24A toward TX-10 E/ Richland Hills/ TX-183 W,  turn left onto Booth Calloway Rd,  turn left onto W Hurst Blvd/ TX-10 E/ TX-183 E,  Continue to follow W Hurst Blvd/ TX-10E.
Founded in 1935 as Bell Aircraft Corporation, Bell continues to set the pace for the industry and expand the scope of vertical lift. Now an industry leader with unmatched name recognition, Bell Helicopter was the first to obtain certification for a commercial helicopter. Over its rich history, Bell has delivered more than 35,000 aircraft to our customers around the world.  With forward thinking in advanced concepts, Bell Helicopter invented tilt rotor aircraft. These unique aircraft lift like a helicopter, then fly like an airplane with twice the speed, three times the payload and five times the range of traditional helicopters. Aerospace and aircraft will never be the same.  Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, Bell Helicopter has additional plants in Amarillo, Texas and Mirabel, Canada. We maintain key logistics supply and service centers in Europe, Canada, and Singapore as well as in the United States. As the world’s premier provider of vertical lift aircraft, Bell Helicopter continues to provide every customer with products, service and support second to none.

Website:   http://bellhelicopter.com/

Address: 600 E Hurst Blvd, Hurst, TX

Phone Number: (817) 280-2011

Hours of operation: Contact Us

Need a place where everyone in your group has something to do?  Look no further then Billy Bob’s Texas.   The Building now known as Billy Bob’s Texas was built in 1910 and was once a large open-air barn for housing prize cattle during the Fort Worth Stock Show. Now with nearly 3 acres inside, Billy Bob’s houses a café with savory texas dishes,  a gift store,  a live pro  bull riding ring,  a concert area, and   known as the world’s largest honky tonk.  From the Hampton Inn & Suites Alliance/ Fort Worth start out going west on CR-4042 toward N Freeway,  turn left onto N Freeway,  merge onto I-35W sS via the ramp on the left,  take exit 54A toward TX-183/ NE 28^th st,  turn slight lef tonto N Freeway,  turn slight right onto NE 28^th ST /  TX-183 W,  turn left onto N Main St/ US-287-BR.
Billy Bob’s Texas is a true “Family Entertainment” experience. We have many activities for families to see and do while here at Billy Bob’s Texas. Besides great Country Music and atmosphere, there is our Handprint Wall of Fame, Our Photo Bull for souvenir pictures as well as Video & Arcade games for the whole family to enjoy. Our General Store also has all kinds of Billy Bob’s Texas & other neat souvenirs for young and old. We have great BBQ food, snacks, and fountain drinks in our restaurant too. Besides our main event concerts every Friday & Saturday nights for the whole family, we also have Live Pro Bull riding at 9 & 10 PM. Admission is $2.50 per person in addition to admission to Billy Bob’s. Billy Bob’s Texas has real live bull riding INSIDE the huge entertainment center, with the best bull riders in the world competing weekly. Billy Bob’s Texas offers facilities for full service meetings, conventions, and parties. We can accommodate from 20 to 5,000 fun-loving folks. Hold your next group meeting, party, or wedding rehearsal at Billy Bob’s

Website: http://www.billybobstexas.com/

Address: 2520 Rodeo Plz, Fort Worth, TX

Phone Number: (817) 624-7117

Hours of operation:  Monday – Saturday from 11 AM until 2 AM

Sundays from 12 Noon until 2 AM.

Home cooked fired chicken,  fall off the bone ribs,  chicken fried steak,  mashed potatoes, green beans, and some biscuits.  You hungry yet?  That is just a sampling of the made for scratch dishes you will find at Babe’s Chicken.  Whether you need to feed your family or cater a corporate event,  Babe’s is here to serve.   From the Hampton  Inn & Suites Alliance/ Fort Worth start out east on Keller Haslet Rd toward Old Denton Rd,  Turn right onto Alta Vista Rd,  turn left onto Alliance Gateway Fwy/ TX-170 E,  turn left onto US-377/ Denton Hwy,  continue to follow US-377,  turn right onto Main St,  take the 1^st left onto N Oak St, Babe’s will be on the right.
On April 22, 1993, Paul and Mary Beth Vinyard opened the first Babe’s in Roanoke, Texas, located North East of Ft. Worth and West of Grapevine. It has only 155 seats and is located in a warehouse building built in 1908. “Babe” is Mary Beth’s nick name; she developed the recipes so we named the restaurant Babe’s.  The Babe’s in Garland was opened in May of 1994. Over the years we have developed a broader menu for this Babe’s, including many of the items we now serve in the other Babe’s locations. Because we are cooking in our restaurants everyday (unlike specialty catering companies which start and stop depending on business) you can count on getting competitive pricing since we can easily add your needs to our daily food production.  We work hard to make it as easy for you as possible. And with our experienced management and friendly employees, we are equally at home serving a corporate function or a church social.  We hope you’ll give us the opportunity to make your next event that much better

Website: http://babeschicken.com/

Address: 104 N Oak St, Roanoke, TX

Phone Number: (817) 491-2900

Hours of operation:  Monday-Friday Lunch – 11a.m. to 2 p.m.  Dinner – 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Saturday  All Day  11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Sunday All Day 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Alliance is a community within the Fort Worth TX area that has taken on a city namesake all its own.  The 17,000-acre AllianceTexas development is unparalleled in its vision of a dynamic and diversified community. In total, the development encompasses 31 million square feet, 260+ corporate residents, 30,000 employees and more than 7,400 single-family homes .  This area continues to grow and provides a wide range of business, residential, and recreational activities.

AllianceTexas, developed by Hillwood – a Perot Company, is a 17,000-acre master-planned, mixed-use community located in north Fort Worth. AllianceTexas offers a variety of commercial real estate options, including new industrial, office and retail. Anchored by the inland port known as the Alliance Global Logistics Hub, AllianceTexas is home to 260+ companies, 30,000 employees and 7,400+ single-family homes. Alliance includes the following business and retail communities,  Fort Worth Alliance Airport, Alliance Global Logistics Hub, Circle T Ranch, Alliance Town Center,  and Lone Star Crossing.  A 2,500-acre mixed-use, master planned community in Westlake, Texas, Circle T Ranch presents the corporate campus, championship golf and recreational component to AllianceTexas. With more than 700 acres of open space and golf, Circle T Ranch showcases some of the most picturesque land in the state. Westlake, Texas was recently ranked the nation’s most affluent community by Forbes and named a Scenic-City Gold Medalist by Scenic Texas and the Texas Muncipal League. Corporate residents of Circle T Ranch will benefit from the same economic advantages and business services provided at Alliance

Website:  http://www.alliancetexas.com/Home.aspx

Address: Fort Worth / Alliance TX

Fort Worth TX has a rich history of cattle drives, war, oil gushing, and even devastating tornados.  Within in all that, Fort Worth was the fast growing large city in the United States from 2000-2006 and was voted as one of American most livable communities.  The most recent census showed that Fort Worth had a population of 741,206,  that is up 38.6% from just ten years ago.  The prominent population in Fort Worth is white with 43% being non – Hispanic white.  Of the total of 195,078 housholds there were 34.7% of them that had children under the age of 18 and 45.8% were married couples living together.  Forth Worth stands as the ninth-safest  US city amoung those with a population over 500,000 in 2006.

Fort Worth is the sixteenth-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas.   Located in North Central Texas, just Southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly 300 square miles.  According to the 2010 Census, Fort Worth had a population of 741,206.   It has been estimated that by 2030 it will have 1,211,665 residents. The city is the second most populous in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.  The city was established in 1849 as an Army outpost on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River. Today Fort Worth still embraces its Western heritage and traditional architecture and design.  Fort Worth went from a sleepy outpost to a bustling town when it became a stop along the legendary Chisholm Trail, the dusty path on which millions of head of cattle were driven North to market. Fort Worth became the center of the cattle drives, and later, the ranching industry. Its location on the Old Chisholm Trail helped establish Fort Worth as a trading and cattle center and earned it the nickname “Cowtown.” During the 1860s Fort Worth suffered from the effects of the Civil War, and Reconstruction. The population dropped as low as 175, as money, food, and supply shortages burdened the residents. Gradually, however, the town began to revive. In 1876, the Texas and Pacific Railway arrived in Fort Worth causing a boom and transformed the Fort Worth Stockyards into a premier cattle industry and in wholesale trade.[16] The arrival of the railroad ushered in an era of astonishing growth for Fort Worth as migrants from the devastated war-torn South continued to swell the population and small, community factories and mills yielded to larger businesses. Newly dubbed the nickname, “Queen City of the Prairies”, Fort Worth supplied a regional market via the growing transportation network.

Website:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Worth,_Texas

Address: Fort Worth

Get lost in the tranquility of Art in the Amon Carter Museum.  At any given time there is more then 600 works of art for your viewing pleasure. Many of these works are the museums own collection however they do host special exhibits and events.  Amon also provides levels of interactive art as well as education.  From the Hampton Inn & Suites Alliance/ Fort Worth start out going west on CR-4042 toward N Freeway,  turn left onto N Freeway,  Merge onto I-35W S via the ramp on the left,  then merge onto I-30 W towards US-377 A/ Abilene/ TX-180 W,  take the TX-199/ Henderson St exit,  then turn slight left to take the Henderson st ramp,  Keep right at the fork to go on Henderson St/ TX-199,  turn left onto W Lancaster Ave, turn right onto Camp Bowie Blvd,  Amon Carter Museum is on the right.

The Amon Carter Museum was established through the generosity of Amon G. Carter Sr. (1879–1955) to house his collection of paintings and sculpture by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell; to collect, preserve, and exhibit the finest examples of American art; and to serve an educational role through exhibitions, publications, and programs devoted to the study of American art.  Amon G. Carter, a legendary figure in Texas history, was for most of his life Fort Worth’s leading citizen and champion. Mr. Carter’s will provided for the establishment of a museum in Fort Worth devoted to American art. “As a youth, I was denied the advantages which go with the possession of money,” he stated in the will. “I am endeavoring to give to those who have not had such advantages, but who aspire to the higher and finer attributes of life, those opportunities which were denied to me.”

Website:  http://www.cartermuseum.org/about

Address: 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX

Phone Number: (817) 738-1933

Hours of operation:       Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday:  10 a.m.–5 p.m.

Thursday: 10 a.m.–8 p.m.

Sunday: Noon–5 p.m.

Closed Mondays and major holidays.

The Livestock Exchange Building in Fort Worth’s Stockyards Historic District is the home of the Stockyards Museum . They still hold special longhorn auctions here even though the regular cattle auctions are a thing of the past.  Come back to the history and enjoy a visit with us along with others that visit from all over the world.   From the Hampton Inn & Suites Alliance/ Fort Worth start out going west on CR-4042 toward N Freeway,  turn left onto N Freeway,  Merge onto I-35W S via the ramp on the left,  take Exit 54A toward TX-183/NE 28^th st,  turn slight left onto N Freeway,  then turn slight right onto NE28th st/ TX-183 W,  turn left onto N main St/ US-287-BR, turn left onto E Exchange Ave,  The Stockyard Museum is on the left.

The Stockyards Museum is located in the classic 1903 Livestock Exchange building in the heart of the Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District. The North Fort Worth Historical Society first opened the Stockyards Museum in 1989 using a small space to be able to share its historic archives with the public. From this modest beginning, the Stockyards Museum has now grown to host thousands of visitors who come from all over the world. In addition, the museum is a highly respected resource for writers, academics, historians, restoration specialists and genealogists. The Stockyards Museum is a casual, friendly place welcoming families and permitting cameras. It’s a great place to spend some time capturing the true feeling and history of the Stockyards. Volunteers from the NFWHS are present to offer explanation and further information on all of the photographs and artifacts on display.

Website:  http://stockyardsmuseum.org/

Address: 131 E Exchange Ave Ste 113, Fort Worth, TX

Phone Number: (817) 625-5087

Hours of operation:       10a.m.—5p.m. Mon.―Sat.