Panther Island Pavilion

Awful! The rink is extremely small and its melting like a pond. I’m a fairly good skater but the ice terrible — gross & slushy. Don’t waste your money. Skate at one of the many Dr Pepper stars centers in the area. And, did I mention the bees flying around?!?

We arrived 30 minutes to close, luckily they let us in! The views at Panther Island are pretty amazing, they had a live band and the atmosphere was real chill.
Coming from Dallas it’s a real treat to pay $ 10 for three beer and we even get to keep the glass!
Parking was a little pain in the butt, unless you have a truck you better park in the street. It’s really muddy, so watch out!

I had the opportunity to check out the awesomeness that is the Panther Island Pavilion this past weekend at a local half marathon. The start and finish line was here and then the race went up down and all around the beautiful Trinity Trail. I’m very thankful to the city of Ft. Worth for having such a nice venue here to hold concerts, races and events year round! I could definitely see some fun times going down here in the spring or summer when it’s balmy out. There’s plenty of land to stretch out, come here for a picnic or just to enjoy nature. Again, Ft. Worth does a stellar job of providing free parking in the city.

Awesome experience for Octoberfest!!! Very focused on a good time with traditional music. I have been to wurstfest, and this is better smaller and very fun! Would recommend to anyone.

Panther Island Pavillion is a music venue, however my experience with Panther Island is as a good old fashioned swimming hole! We regularly come out here on weekends to take a nice swim to help us endure the sweltering heat. Backwoods is usually there on the weekends to rent out canoes, kayaks and paddle boards. On Sunday Funday there are even beer stands and food trucks.
I personally have not seen a concert here, although it looks like a great place for it. I mean there is a stage on the beach as well as a cool stage over the water on the far side of the river that would be perfect to watch while you floated around in front.
There are showers, port a potties and water fountains close by. When there isn’t an event going (including Sunday Funday) you can bring a cooler with you. For having concerts there, there is actually less trash than you’d think.
The crowd is very nice and courteous. You can bring your dog too and let them cool off, which is a great bonus. So if it is burning up outside and you don’t have easy access to a pool, definitely consider loading up a cooler and coming out for a swim. This is a great oasis right there in downtown.

They really should post online if the river won’t be open for tubing. They had it posted that it was opening night but when we got there it was posted that all water activities were closed. There was a good amount of people there that were all dressed for tubing and like us, we’re disappointed to see it closed. I gave it two stars because there was lots of parking and the staff that I spoke with were very friendly. I’ll be back again I think but I’ll be sure to call before going to make sure the river is up and running.

A good place to see a concert but be prepared to get dirty. My feet were not just dusty but caked with dirt by the end of the night.

Parking was $ 5, which is a bit disappointing. No one includes parking in ticket prices anymore. Sigh.
Anyway, it’s an interesting location, on the flood plain of the Trinity, located on a bend in the river, with great views of downtown Ft Worth.
I do wish they had more bathrooms. Or bathrooms at all, really.
My husband went to the Ft Worth Music Festival and said the VIP section was right by the stage and totally worth the price, so when we went again for Dia De Los Toadies, it was a no brainer.
Except they moved the VIP section. It’s nowhere near the stage. They had it up on top of the hill, not facing the stage, and had seriously rickety stairs leading up. I have fibromyalgia, so I am really glad it was a «good day» and I could make it up — they had no way up to the VIP if you’re handicapped that I could tell. the VIP section was CROWDED as all get-​out and didn’t have half the seating it needed. The special restrooms trucked in for the VIP section had a half hour wait in line to use. You also had to hike down the hill to get any food.
We eventually gave up on the VIP section and sat down on the lawn on a blanket we brought. I am so disappointed. What a waste of money.
Overall, though, I enjoyed the concert and the food trucks.

I saw Panther Island rocking from Main Street and the nearby Tarrant County College campus a few times, but I didn’t get a close look until this last year’s Dia De Los Toadies festival. It’s a great space:
— Plenty of parking available for $ 5, and getting in and out was easy and painless.
— There’s a great variety of spots to settle into, depending on what you’re there for. We came in on a hot and muggy day, and it was super relaxing laying out on the river bank in the shade, listening to music, and watching people tube.
— If you’re not the lay-​in-​the-​shade-​and-​watch-​people-​tube type, there’s a huge open field for seats or walking around, plenty of tents set up, a hill made for blankets and spreading out and an area for food trucks. Two stages if you want to get right up to the music. Seriously, something for everyone.
I’m tempted to dock one star because a few hours into the evening, the bathrooms were a mess… still, I’m definitely looking forward to heading back to Panther Island once the weather warms up. How can walking around with the sun on your face and a beer in your hand not be fun?

The fine folks of Fort Worth love their Trinity River, and Panther Island Pavilion pays beautiful homage to it. This humble sized stage overlooking the river is the center of several community music events — and there seem to be more scheduled every season.
I’ve been out here for the Rockin’ The River Music series, which offers a promising line-​up of fun (mostly local) bands every Thursday evening during June and July (and a few weeks in August). There’s food, plenty of beer to buy, and tubing… I love the concept, although I’m not too keen on actually submerging my body into that murky water. However, it’s adorable that there’s this tiny «beach» along the banks across from the stage. It’s a small amount of sand that people (mostly teens and young adults) approach in bikinis and swim trunks with a demeanor that says, «I’m on a sunny shore!» While this is certainly no ocean-​side, sandy paradise; it’s a sweet tribute to one. There is a place to go in Fort Worth where you can put your feet in sand and look out over water, and for that, I am thankful!
Tons of green space surround this pavilion as well, so there’s plenty of room for festivities to accompany concerts; food trucks, pop-​up bars, vendor booths, etc. Several runners and cyclists continually scurry through, and I’ve seen (and heard of) multiple 5K’s held here. It may be hotter than Hades 75% of the year, but it’s a joy to have this green oasis available, bringing Fort Worth together over music and the river.

What a great venue. Nice big lawn for outdoor concerts on a pretty bend in the Trinity River. Nice views of downtown Fort Worth. Bit annoying to have to pay for parking, but at least it was only $ 5 (at least for the Fort Worth Music Festival).

Okay, so after ending up here for some really, really, insanely cool events recently (Paste Untapped Fest and the FW Music Fest), I’ve reconsidered some of the thoughts I had about Panther Island Pavilion.
I still seriously question the thinking behind people getting in the water here (yeah, no thanks). But the Untapped Fest in the old Tandy Center parking lot and the FW Music Fest in the area across the river made me realize how versatile the area is for a lot of outdoor festival-​ey things. And the fact that it boasts a pretty great view of the city skyline on the bluff is nothing to take lightly, either. (Side note: what’s going to become of this place and the killer new drive-​in once the Trinity River Vision, praise be unto it, floods the north part of downtown, I wonder…)
So I hope they keep bringing really great events here. And I’ll keep going to them. But yeah, no thanks on the tubing.

what an awesome place! loving the fact that this is so close to home and it’s FREE. woohoo, check it out.

So I’m reserving the fifth star to see what Panther Island becomes, but for what it is now, it’s pretty promising: smallish stage overlooking the latest and greatest Trinity, a burgeoning schedule of events, from the first ever Solar Powered Fest (think music fest entirely powered by the sun) to the Rockin’ River Series, which steps into the summer with a weekly smörgåsbord of bands you can see by innertube, cold one in hand.
The fact is that Fort Worth’s take on the Trinity is pretty terrific, and Panther Island is home to lots of the natural extensions of same. It remains that there’s almost nothing better by my estimation than a late spring or early summer Texas by the beginnings of sunset, the hills and one giant ruby orb dipping into the recesses of the horizon beyond. That doesn’t solve everything everywhere, mind you, but it solves almost everything in your immediate future, should you find yourself in its orbit. And on days when you’re angling for that last bit of happy to send you into the stars, this is a fine place to start.