Day Trip Idea: Visit the Ennis Bluebonnet Trails Festival Today

April 16, 2023 | Shelby Skrhak | | Second Shelters

Type 100 N Dallas St. into your Google Maps and hit up the Buc-ee’s for Beaver Nuggets on the way because we’re going on a road trip to the Ennis Bluebonnet Trails and Festival TODAY. The annual springtime event showcases our state flower of Texas, the bluebonnet, in its full showy bloom.

Day trippers across the state have been venturing to Ennis in northeast Texas all throughout April, but today is the culmination of the 71st annual Ennis Bluebonnet Trails Festival taking place from April 14 to Sunday, April 16. Admission prices are $5 for adults; kids 12 and under are free.

While you’re there, say, “Hi” to Gene Robinson, owner and developer of Mullican Place Ranchettes. For years, Robinson and his family have enjoyed the colorful displays of wildflowers blanketing the family’s Bar-M Ranch along FM 660. “The bluebonnet trails actually run right along Mullican Place and make such a scenic backdrop,” Robinson says. “Photos of these colorful patches of bluebonnets don’t even do it justice.”

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Shelby Skrhak

Shelby is Associate Editor of CandysDirt.com, where she writes and produces the Dallas Dirt podcast. She loves covering estate sales and murder homes, not necessarily related. As a lifelong Dallas native, she's been an Eagle, Charger, Wildcat, and a Comet.