Things to Do in Cedar Hill TX
Cedar Hill boasts a veritable feast of fun things to do, for in its 36-square miles, you’ll find friendly people, an outstanding quality of life with many social, entertainment, and recreational possibilities. Here you can really celebrate and live a full life!
Perhaps Cedar Hill’s most polarizing lures are the 7500-acre Joe Pool Lake and Cedar Hill State Park. After all, 2 million annual visitors making this the second most visited recreation area in the state cannot be wrong… In fact, they’re very much onto something–the joy of nature’s works of art!
Here, in all nature’s glory, you can catch shooting stars, often obscured by big-city light pollution. And in the 1,826 wooded acres of Cedar Hill State Park, you can grab your gear and boat, fish, camp, ski, swim, or head for Joe Pool Marina, kick back and go for a nice, leisurely sail.
Sandwiched between ‘dreamsicle’ sunsets and sunrises, you can bike on unparalleled mountain bike trails or hike the nature trails for unique birding or lush botanical delights. You can feed the ducks and catch the frenzy of thousands of fish swarming for breadcrumbs at the Oasis Pier. Or if you’re into sand volleyball, there’s a court just for you, as well as four beautiful playgrounds, 355 campsite with facilities, and 30 primitive campsites for those who really like to ‘rough it.”
To the delight of all seeking the lighter side of quality life, Cedar Hill’s just the city for you. If you prefer strolling hand in hand with their loved one amidst the gracious beauty of Mother Nature, that’s here as well. Plus, you’ll also find golf courses, a roller-skating rink and nearby Stars Ice Hockey Center, Cedar Hill community theatre, and 14 parks, including Valley Ridge Park with an amphitheatre and bowl seating for 2000. During the school year, Valley Ridge’s amphitheatre comes alive with the wondrous sounds of concerts in the park. Or if your recreation is reading, hit the local Zula Wylie Library.
For sports fans, check out Cedar Hill High School’s Longhorn Stadium with seating for over 7,000. What a gorgeous view you’ll find from the state-of-the art press box. On any given Saturday or Sunday afternoon, Cedar Hill’s fields and parks come alive with children laughing, running, and playing baseball, soccer, basketball, football or hide and seek.
It’s just another typically joyous weekend celebrations of life in Cedar Hill! Within minutes from Cedar Hill, you can be amazed by architecture at Dallas’ Mort Meyerson Symphony Center, Bass Brothers’ Concert Hall in Fort Worth or American Airlines Center. In fact, there are unlimited entertainment and recreational opportunities in Cedar Hill and the surrounding DFW area ranging from museums to the Marsalis Zoo’s ‘Boo at the Zoo’ annual Fall festival… That is if you can leave all the shopping options in Cedar Hill, for last, but certainly not least. Cedar Hill itself now proudly boasts shopping, shopping and more shopping–for those who choose to enjoy the entertainment of perusing local stores for treasure and values.
In fact, the EQ, or entertainment quotient of Cedar Hill seems to escalate up, up, up… When it comes to having fun, there’s simply no better place than Cedar Hill to work, live and PLAY, PLAY, PLAY!