Cotton Bowl Stadium Shuttle (Red River Rivalry at the State Fair)
The Cotton Bowl is one of the largest stadiums in America, and on its biggest days it sits in the middle of the State Fair of Texas. A door-to-door shuttle to Cotton Bowl Stadium drops your group at the gate and gets you out of Fair Park without the three-hour parking exit. Texas Shuttle runs fixed-fare, whole-vehicle service 24/7 across Dallas, with pickups from both airports, hotels, homes or any address. State Fair of Texas shuttle page
How is Your Service Different?
- Any Address - We pick up and drop off at your home, business, hotel or any airport.
- Better - most rides are non-stop and no sharing in a Nice Car, SUV or Shuttle.
- Flexible - we pick you up on your schedule 24/7. It's also always free to change the date or time if your flight changes.
- Safer - we don't leave you at a bus stop, and all our drivers go through nationwide fingerprint background checks.
- Faster - most rides take half the time, because it's just you in the vehicle. No need to stop and wait everywhere.
- Convenient - Door to Door means no need to arrange or pay for a Taxi or Lyft to get home.
- Affordable - once you add it all up, it's the same price or less than other shared ride shuttles for two or more people, or less than Uber with just one person.
Event transportation to Cotton Bowl Stadium
On Red River Saturdays, more than 90,000 ticketed fans converge on Fair Park at the same time as fair crowds, and the surrounding streets and fair lots back up for hours before kickoff and again after the final whistle. A private shuttle replaces that grind with a scheduled ride. Dallas shuttle page
- Door-to-door pickup anywhere in Dallas and drop-off at the stadium gates, no fair-lot shuttle transfers.
- Whole-vehicle pricing: sedans for up to 3, SUVs for 4 to 7, or 14-passenger vans for the watch party.
- Fixed fares locked at booking, no surge pricing on rivalry Saturdays or for 5 a.m. airport runs.
- Round trips booked together save 10 percent off each way with the promo code ONLINE.
90,000 seats in the middle of the State Fair
Cotton Bowl Stadium sits in Fair Park in Dallas and holds 92,100 seats. The stadium hosts the Red River Rivalry, the annual Oklahoma versus Texas game played during the State Fair of Texas each October, under an agreement that keeps the game at the Cotton Bowl through 2036, and it also hosts postseason college football, the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, plus fair-season soccer and concert dates. Love Field shuttle page
The State Fair of Texas runs roughly three and a half weeks from late September into October, so the stadium's busiest weekends are also the fair's busiest. That combination - a full stadium inside a fairground with its own attendance records - is what makes driving your own car such a poor option. Fair parking fills early, exit lines stretch into the evening, and the streets around Fair Park absorb both crowds at once. A shuttle driver plans the arrival window and the pickup window around all of it. DFW airport shuttle page
How the door-to-door shuttle works
Reserve one vehicle for a flat whole-vehicle quote: tolls, wait time and bags are included, and there is no hourly billing. Your driver is normally 5 to 10 minutes early at home, hotel and business pickups, and coordinates drop-off and post-event pickup against the stadium and fair schedule.
Flying in for the rivalry game? Airport legs carry your flight number, and pickup is scheduled 30 minutes after a domestic landing or 45 minutes after an international one, adjusted to the actual arrival, from either Dallas Fort Worth International or Dallas Love Field. Kickoff times move with TV windows; changes to date, time, address or flight number are free.
Coverage and booking
Texas Shuttle covers the entire Dallas metro - uptown, downtown, the suburbs, DFW Airport and Love Field - and connects Dallas with Austin, Houston and San Antonio for visiting fans. A full 14-passenger van split across a group of fans usually beats fair parking plus rideshare per person, with no designated-driver problem.
Reserve online or by phone and confirm the fixed fare before travel. Book the game-day inbound and the post-game pickup together to lock in the 10 percent round-trip saving with the promo code ONLINE.