Irving Travel and Things to Do Guide

Welcome to Cvent's Meeting and Event Planning Guide to Irving, a city guide for meeting professionals. The gateway to Dallas and Fort Worth, Irving offers the very best when it comes to meeting location, amenities, entertainment and service. The city boasts a new 100,000-square-foot convention center, 200,000 square feet of hotel meeting space, including a luxury resort, and is the global headquarters of six Fortune 500 companies. A perfectly situated mid-sized city, Irving offers a central location in the heart of the Metroplex that's between Dallas and Fort Worth and is extremely convenient to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field Airport.
Irving sits adjacent to the sprawling Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, which serves approximately 158,000 daily passengers and 191 worldwide destinations. As an American Airlines hub, the airport ranks third in operations and ninth in passengers worldwide with more than 900 flights per day. Situated about 15 minutes outside of Irving, Dallas Love Field serves as home base to Southwest Airlines. Both Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field Airport offer direct access to Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) light rail service. DART also operates daily commuter rail, bus and light rail service throughout Dallas and 12 surrounding cities, while the Trinity Railway Express (TRE) connects downtown Dallas and Fort Worth with at two Irving stations. The DART Orange Line light rail provides direct service to the Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas via its light rail to both DFW Airport and downtown Dallas.
Situated on a 40-acre tract in Las Colinas Urban Center, the Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas features nearly 100,000 square feet of meeting and exhibit space. The center's three main levels include the Exhibition Hall Level, which houses the 50,000-square-foot exhibit hall for up to 5,000 guests, features a show manager's office overlooking the show floor. The Meeting Rooms Level features 20 breakout rooms, each approximately 1,000 square feet, including eight meeting rooms that can be combined to create an 8,000-square-foot junior ballroom. The Grand Ballroom Level includes a 20,000-square-foot ballroom and prefunction space with expansive views of the Las Colinas Urban Center, Lake Carolyn, and the Dallas skyline.
Aside from its cutting-edge Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas, Irving is home to a number of special event venues perfectly designed for group functions and events. The 10-acre Irving Arts Center complex houses two fully equipped theaters, four galleries, meeting, classroom, reception and rehearsal facilities and a scenic sculpture garden. Guests can hold events throughout the center's more than 91,500 square feet of performance and visual arts space, including the 710-seat Carpenter Performance Hall, 257-seat Dupree Theater and 275-peson IAC Rehearsal Hall, among many other spaces. Irving's National Scouting Museum serves as the official museum of the Boy Scouts of America and offers huge collection of Scouting-affiliated artifacts, one of the world's largest Norman Rockwell collections and interactive activities, as well as three meeting rooms for up to 225 guests.
Situated within a short drive of Irving, the Dallas Museum of Art is lauded as one of the country's leading art institutions, as it features more than 22,000 works spanning 5,000 years, innovative exhibitions and educational programs for all ages and experience levels. Also in Dallas, the Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Garden is home to 66 acres of display gardens, as well as more than 12 garden venues. No trip to Irving is complete with a stop at the nearby Southfork Ranch in Parker. Made famous by the Ewing family of the Dallas television series, this former authentic Texas ranch is now a popular attraction.