Ripley’s Guinness World Records Museum is officially amazing. They are one of the first museums in the world to give guests a chance to earn an official Guinness World Record Title. Are you ready to challenge millions to claim your title? Join the new Attempt Arena, where you participate in daily live shows featuring official Guinness World Records adjudicators. Not ready just yet? That’s okay! Walk around and enjoy the combination of world record artifacts, exhibits from groups of sports, space, animals, food, and human achievements. You can enjoy videos, touchscreen computers, games, and interactive trivia spread throughout 16 themed galleries.
Strap on your favorite hiking boots and get ready to be amazed at the Government Canyon State Natural Area, a tranquil park featuring multi-use trails perfect for the experienced to the beginner hiker. Offering more than 40 miles of trails where you can camp, attend a program or guided hike, geocache, picnic, take nature photos, and look for birds and other wildlife. Check out the only known dinosaur footprints on public land where scientists think that the Acrocanthosaurus and Sauroposeidon dinosaurs left the tracks nearly 110 million years ago.
The annual Poteet Festival gives Poteet strawberry growers plenty of locations on the festival grounds to sell their crops. Along with selling delicious berries, the festival features non-stop live music from nationally known Country and Tejano performers and local bands. There are gunslingers, a carnival midway, and live rodeo performances that include Bull Riding, Bronc Riding, Barrel Racing, and Junior Events that offer cash prizes.