Dallas on Veterans Day: City Offices, the Court and Every Library Are Closed Today — but the Trash Runs, the Shelter Is Open and 3-1-1 Is Answering
The City of Dallas's own holiday notice, in one useful split: all city offices, Municipal Court and every library location are closed for Veterans Day, while garbage, recycling and brush collection continue as scheduled, the animal shelter keeps normal hours, Fair Park and the golf courses stay open, and 3-1-1 representatives are taking service calls all day.
DALLAS — If your Wednesday errand runs through the City of Dallas, check which side of the holiday line it falls on. All City offices are closed today, Wednesday, November 11, in observance of Veterans Day, the city said in its official closures notice, read in full this run — and so are Municipal Court and every Dallas Public Library location, though the library's online services run around the clock as always.
The working half of the city is larger than the closed half. Garbage, recycling and brush and bulky-item collections continue as scheduled — only the Sanitation administrative offices are closed — and the McCommas Bluff Landfill and transfer stations remain open during regular hours for residential self-service disposal. Dallas Animal Services' administrative offices are closed, but the shelter is open for normal business hours and Animal Services officers respond normally to requests through 3-1-1. Fair Park remains open to the public as usual with security operating 24 hours a day, and the city's golf courses and tennis centers are open during normal business hours, even as Park and Recreation's administrative offices, recreation centers and maintenance facilities close.
For anything that breaks today, the front door is 3-1-1. Customer Service Representatives are available to take service-related calls — water main breaks, downed trees and limbs, signal lights out — and requests can also be filed online or through the Dallas 311 mobile app. Dallas Water Utilities' administrative and customer service offices are closed, with service requests routed to the same 3-1-1 channels.
The cultural map splits the same way: the Office of Arts and Culture's administrative offices, the Bath House Cultural Center and the Juanita J. Civil Rights House & Museum are closed, while the South Dallas Cultural Center, Oak Cliff Cultural Center and Latino Cultural Center operate normally. Everything on the closed list reopens on the normal schedule Thursday — a one-day pause, published by the city itself, and worth the two minutes it takes to check before you drive.
