Best Public SpaceDallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden 8525 Garland Road.
Open daily at 9 p.m.DallasArbotetum.org. It’s hard to imagine a time when the west coast of White Rock Lake wasn’t dominated by the 66 acres of lush public space called the Dallas Arboretum, but it didn’t open officially until 1984 — the same year Dallas Voice was founded.
And the two institutions have grown up together, with the arboretum being much more than just gardens of flowers and plants.