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Hotel Drover, Autograph Collection
Fort Worth, Texas, United States · Autograph Collection · High Luxury
Purpose-built for Fort Worth's Stockyards Historic District, Hotel Drover opened on Mule Alley in March 2021 with 200 rooms in HKS's Stockyards Rustic language of timber, brick, and hand-hammered metal. Travel + Leisure readers named it the No. 1 hotel in Dallas-Fort Worth in 2022, 2024, and 2025, and Michelin awarded it a Key. Twice-daily cattle drives on Exchange Avenue pass near the door. In 2022 the property also acquired the historic Stockyards Hotel next door.
- 200 rooms
- Opened 2021
- Neighborhood: Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District
About Hotel Drover, Autograph Collection
- It holds a Michelin Key; signature restaurant 97 West is known for steaks and game including antelope and pheasant.
- Lobby decor includes a ten-foot antler chandelier, a cowboy neon-sign display, and a life-size sculpture of drovers.
- Each Christmas it hosts the 12 Days of Drover with Cowboy Santa and live reindeer; the hotel also appeared in the series Landman.
History
Hotel Drover occupies a purpose-built structure in Fort Worth's Stockyards Historic District, the 125-acre stretch of Exchange Avenue and Stockyards Boulevard that was once the largest livestock market in the American West. At its peak in the early twentieth century, the Fort Worth Stockyards processed millions of cattle and hogs annually, and the district was a working industrial landscape of holding pens, packing houses, auction barns, and commission offices that defined the economic life of the city and the region. Fort Worth called itself Cowtown, and the Stockyards were where it earned the name.
The decline of the meatpacking industry and the shift toward regional feedlots gradually drained the Stockyards of its commercial purpose across the mid-twentieth century, leaving behind a collection of historic brick structures and the cultural apparatus of the cattle trade — the Stockyards Station, the Cowtown Coliseum, the daily cattle drives on Exchange Avenue — that eventually became a tourist destination and a protected historic district. The Mule Alley section, a row of former horse and mule barns along the south side of the district, was chosen as the site for a major hospitality development that would anchor a broader revitalization of the western end of the Stockyards.
Hotel Drover opened in 2021, designed by HKS of Dallas in what the firm characterized as a Stockyards Rustic architectural language — exposed timber, warm brick, wide-plank floors, and hand-hammered metalwork that speaks to the livestock trade heritage without becoming a theme park. The 200-room property was developed as a flagship for the broader Mule Alley revitalization, which brought restaurants, retail, and event space into the renovated barn buildings around it. Autograph Collection, Marriott's portfolio of independent-spirited properties, proved a natural fit for a hotel built around a specific regional identity rather than a chain prototype.
The hotel has earned a MICHELIN Key designation and strong recognition from Travel and Leisure, reflecting the quality of its execution and the authenticity of its setting. The twice-daily cattle drive down Exchange Avenue, a Stockyards tradition maintained by local ranchers, passes close to the property — an unrepeatable piece of living history that no amount of design can manufacture and that gives Hotel Drover a context no urban boutique hotel can replicate.
The setting
4 miles from Kimbell Art Museum. 2 miles from Interstate 35W.
Restaurants and bars
- 97 West Kitchen & Bar — Restaurant · New American
Amenities
- Pool
- Hot tub
- Fitness center
- Pet-friendly
Awards
- MICHELIN One Key (2026)
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