AT&T Stadium map
32.75° N · 97.09° W · Arlington, Tarrant County · opened 2009
AT&T Stadium is the Dallas Cowboys' ground, and it is not in Dallas: it stands in Arlington, roughly midway between Dallas and Fort Worth, in a district of stadiums and theme parks south of I-30. It has a retractable roof, glass doors that open both end zones, and a video board slung over the middle of the field.
The stadium sits between Collins Street and the ballparks. Everything ringed around it is parking.
Where it is and how to get there
The stadium is in Arlington's Entertainment District, south of I-30 and west of SH-360, with Collins Street (SH-157) on one side and Randol Mill Road on the other. I-20 runs a few miles south. From Dallas it is about 20 miles west on I-30; from Fort Worth about 20 miles east on the same freeway. DFW International Airport is roughly 15 miles north by SH-360. Grand Prairie adjoins the district on the east, in Dallas County.
There is no rail service into Arlington. The Trinity Railway Express between Dallas and Fort Worth passes several miles north of the district, near the airport, and event shuttles rather than trains bridge the gap. In practice almost everyone drives, and event-day traffic on Collins, Division and Randol Mill is the thing to plan around.
How the building works
| Element | Description |
|---|---|
| Sunken bowl | The playing field sits well below ground level. The building is dug into the site, which is why it looks lower from the road than its interior volume suggests |
| Roof arches | Two enormous box-truss arches run the length of the building and carry the roof, so no columns interrupt the seating bowl |
| Retractable roof | Panels slide along the arches to open a long slot over the centre of the field |
| End-zone doors | Glass door assemblies at each end retract to open the building end to end onto the plazas outside — the largest of their kind when built |
| Centre-hung board | The four-sided video board hangs over the field, its main screens running most of the distance between the twenty-yard lines. It was the largest in any stadium when it was installed |
| Party plazas | Standing-room platforms at each end behind the doors, on several levels |
| Concourses | A large collection of commissioned contemporary art is installed through the public concourses and clubs rather than in a separate gallery |
| Parking | Numbered surface lots surround the building on all sides, the largest spreading north toward Randol Mill Road |
The Entertainment District
The stadium is one of several venues packed into about a square mile. Globe Life Field, the Texas Rangers' retractable-roof ballpark opened in 2020, stands immediately southwest. Between them is the Rangers' previous open-air ballpark, still standing and now used for other events. North of I-30 are Six Flags Over Texas and its adjoining water park, the original of the Six Flags chain and the reason this district exists at all — see the Six Flags Over Texas map. A restaurant and hotel development, the convention centre and a purpose-built esports arena fill the blocks in between, and a museum devoted to the Medal of Honor has been built on the same ground.
Arlington has around 394,000 residents and is the third city of Tarrant County after Fort Worth. Its street grid is a plain one, but the district's road pattern is not: several streets close or reverse for large events.
Beyond football
The building is used year-round — college football, international soccer, motorsport events staged on temporary surfaces, concerts and championship fights. The roof and the doors let the same room be an outdoor venue in March and a sealed one in August. Elsewhere in the metroplex, Irving holds the Cowboys' former stadium site and the team's earlier headquarters, while the club now trains in Frisco, 40 miles north.
Lot assignments and closures change by event; the district's own signage overrides any static map on a game day.