My wife and I, and another couple from our ward, are flying into Dallas next week for the eclipse on April 8th. We booked a hotel in Midlothian(Marriott Courtyard) because it is close enough to the center of the action (time of totality, 4min7seconds) while still having some lodging options.*

So the question: Does anyone know of a great place near Midlothian to watch the eclipse?^ Ideally, it would be very connected to nature since it was pretty cool during the last eclipse to see cows and birds reactions, and hear insects sounding like it was dusk and then night. The other need is that a restroom is somewhat close since we will have two women with us and this ends up being about a three hour event. This is a very specific question I know, but if anyone has the answer, it is cougarboard.

One final note: if you reasonably have a chance to get to see this, I would definitely go out of my way to do so. We had seen annular eclipses (similar to a full eclipse but you can't look at it with the naked eye) before and thought they were cool, but not that cool. But the total eclipse thing is an entirely different feel; after going to the one seven years ago on a last minute whim, we decided then that we were going to this one.

*If we drove another 35 minutes on a non-eclipse day (so maybe 3 hours around the time of eclipse, we could get to about 4min21seconds). Dallas itself is about 3min50seconds. So we will stay in the general vicinity of Midlothian.

^From a map recon of the area, Hidden Haven Lake looks promising, but google maps says "temporarily closed"