More: Camping, Cabins, and Hiking in Dallas It is just short of 4 hours from Plano (two hours northwest of Austin). You go right through Glen Rose if you’d like to stop to break up the drive. More: We ...

This small town southwest of Dallas is known as the “Dinosaur Capital of Texas.” More than 100 million years ago, an ancient sea covered much of Texas, and present-day Glen Rose sat at the water’s ...