Visit Mineral Wells

08/20/2026

New Park Upgrades coming your way 🙌

Ready for one more adventure at West City Park? 🎉

Join us for our Last Play at West City Park on Thursday, September 3rd at 5:00 PM before the playground closes for an exciting transformation!

🚧 Renovations begin the following week, and the park will be closed throughout September and October while we build a brand-new inclusive playground.

Come make a few more memories on the current playground, then get ready for a whole new level of fun when we reopen this fall! 🌳🛝✨

08/13/2026

Our director of tourism Zach Balch and social media manager Whitney Hill joined the Texas Film Commission for an industry mixer at Texas Live in Arlington. Meeting with a room full of creatives leaves us with a feeling that anything is possible when we write our own stories.

Cheers to the creators, dreamers, schemers, movers, and shakers out there! You are welcome in Mineral Wells.

Shout out to TJ for capturing this moment for us.

08/03/2026

Texas Highways just spilled our secret: Mineral Wells has a park where you keep the 300-million-year-old fossils you dig up. Crinoids, shark teeth, trilobites... free for the taking, no science degree required.

🦴 Mark your calendar: Crazy Fossil Dig, Saturday, October 17th | 8am - 8:30pm

Tool displays, fossil ID help, museum-quality specimens, activities for the kids. Rain or shine.

The Fossil Park is free and open daily.

📍 2375 Indian Creek Road. Fossil Dig Kits available at the Visitor Center.

📖 Read the story and plan your visit: visitmineralwells.org/mineral-wells-fossil-park

Here's a secret most grown-ups forget: 300 million years ago, Mineral Wells was underwater. Not "big lake" underwater — actual ocean, full of sharks, sea lilies, and creatures with more legs than you can count. Then the ocean left, time did its thing, and it buried the proof right here.