Rooms · 340 sq ft
Pen Room
Each door carries its original pen number. Ours are numbered 1 to 260 and nobody has renumbered them.
From$139/ night
Check datesFort Worth, Texas
Bought, sold,
and worth it
Two hundred and sixty rooms in the 1911 livestock exchange. The auction ring is now the dining room, the pen numbers are stencilled on the doors, and the gaming hall is the old sale barn.
01Rooms and suites260
02Year the exchange opened1911
03Restaurants and bars6
04Auction ring, intact1
Where you sleep
The rooms, from smallest to silliest
No two floors are identical, which made the build harder and the stay better. Rates shown are the lowest of the next ninety days.
All accommodationRooms · 390 sq ft
Drover Double
The trusses were rolled in Pennsylvania and shipped down. They are still carrying the roof.
From$159/ night
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Rooms · 430 sq ft
Exchange King
Two exposures onto Exchange Avenue, which is loud on Saturdays and worth it every time.
From$195/ night
Check datesSuites · 780 sq ft
Commission Suite
The original roll-top desk, the safe, and a window onto the ring below.
From$355/ night
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Suites · 1300 sq ft
The Ringside
Two bedrooms and a long room with a glazed opening straight down into the ring.
From$689/ night
Check datesEat and drink
What is open, and when
Reservations open sixty days ahead for the rooms that take them. The rest are walk-in and always will be.
All venues| Venue | Kind | Hours | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Ring | Steak | Dinner nightly | $$$$ |
| Exchange Bar | Saloon | 11 AM–2 AM | $$ |
| Chuck Wagon | All day | 6 AM–3 PM | $ |
| Branding Iron | Barbecue | 11 AM–10 PM | $$ |
| The Sale Barn | Private dining | By arrangement | $$$$ |
What there is to do
Reasons to leave the room
You can do all of it in a long weekend, though we would rather you did about half.
Everything here
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The Sale Barn
Gaming
Forty-four thousand square feet in the old sale barn, iron trusses overhead and the original concrete underfoot. Seven hundred machines, 32 tables and a sportsbook.
More about The Sale Barn02 / 04
The Auction Ring
History
Kept exactly as it was, sawdust included, and used for dinner service. A tour at eleven explains how a hundred thousand cattle a week went through it.
More about The Auction Ring
03 / 04
The Drive
Outdoors
A cattle drive down Exchange Avenue twice daily, which you can watch from the front steps without paying anybody anything.
More about The Drive04 / 04
The Scale House
Spa
Six treatment rooms in the old scale house, a steam room and a cold plunge where the dip tank was.
More about The Scale House
260
Rooms and suites
1911
Year the exchange opened
6
Restaurants and bars
1
Auction ring, intact
Offers
Reasons to come sooner
If a better public rate exists on the day you book, tell us and we will match it and take off another five per cent.
Code DROVERDrover's Rate
Third night free, year round
Three nights, pay for two, with no blackout dates whatsoever.
Terms and bookingRingside
Dinner in the ring
Two nights and a table in the auction ring, which is the only table anybody asks for.
Terms and bookingStock Show Weeks
Book early for January
The stock show fills the whole district. Four-night minimum, booked from the previous March.
Terms and bookingGetting here
140 Exchange Avenue
Fort Worth, TX 76164
- Free self-parking for every guest
- Twenty minutes from downtown, with a shuttle on the hour
- (817) 555-0188 — reservations, 7 AM to 9 PM
