Get to Know Plano With These Top Tours

Get to know Plano on a variety of tours led by teams of experts who cover an array of topics. Whether you escape to the make-believe world of television, surround yourself with true tales of history, or simply explore the region’s natural beauty, the best Plano tours will help you better understand this fascinating city.

Go Ape

Let loose, run wild and fly high with Go Ape, a treetop zip line and adventure course in the lush green landscape of Plano's 800-acre Oak Point Park and Nature Preserve. Fling yourself into the air on two Tarzan swings and soar through the sky on five zip lines on the high-energy TreeTop Tour. The excursion lasts from two to three hours and is reserved for those age 16 and older. The one-hour Treetop Junior Tour is for younger guests and features 20 obstacles and two zip lines. A 30-minute safety and training session precedes every tour.

Travel Back in Time

Take a trip back in time with a visit to the Heritage Farmstead Museum, an 1891 Victorian farmhouse that now serves as a living history museum. Learn more about the struggle and toil of pioneers living on this Blackland Prairie property as you take a tour of the museum. The guided excursion offers only one tour each day. It features a narrated history as you stroll across the 4.5-acre grounds and gardens, and it includes access to the farmhouse and several outbuildings like a potting shed, carriage garage and blacksmith shed. The tour guide explains the importance of numerous tools, furnishings and textiles.

Other Side of the Tracks

Located inside Haggard Park, the Interurban Railway Museum offers educational exhibits on the science and technology behind the streetcar-based Texas Electric Railway. Housed inside a former 1908 railway station, the museum’s exhibits include photographs, visual aids, artifacts and documents pertaining to this once prominent mode of regional transportation. The museum also hosts weekly story time sessions where kids can listen to tales about various trains and railways. Get a free tour inside the preserved railway car known as Car 360 where a tour guide will provide the history behind the powerful and majestic piece of machinery.

Prime Time Ranch

If you stayed awake at night worrying about the lives, loves and misadventures of the fictional Ewing family, Southfork Ranch is definitely a must-see attraction. This lavish Texas ranch served as the primary homestead on Dallas, television’s favorite prime time soap in the 1980s. Located in the small town of Parker, 13 minutes northeast of Plano, the home is now open to the public for tours. See props and memorabilia from the show, and make the fun last a little longer when you add a horseback ride and lunch to your tour.

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