Austin Zoo
Take an online interactive tour and play online games.
Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farm
(512) 837-1215
11418 Sprinkle Cut-off Road
Austin’s living history museum recreates the 1880’s- era of life on the farm in the black land prairies. The Farm is complete with authentic buildings and costumed interpreters. On Farm Family Days, activities include milking cows and churning butter.
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
(512) 292-4200
4801 La Crosse Avenue
This botanical garden showcases the native annual and perennial plants of the Hill Country in sprawling, groomed gardens and courtyards.
Lone Star Riverboat
(512) 327-1388
S. First & Congress Ave. Bridges
McKinney Falls State Park
(512) 243-1643
5808 McKinney Falls Parkway
www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/mckinney
A 744.4 acre state park located in southeast Austin is rich in local history.
Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex
(512) 472-6932
1156 Hargrave Street
Schlitterbahn Waterpartk & Resorts
(830) 625-2351
400 N. Liberty Street
New Braunfalls
Town Lake Hike & Bike Trail
The Colorado River turns into Town Lake as it comes through the city; some will refer to it as Lake Austin, but it is all the same body of water. Capital Cruises offers romantic evening dinner cruises, paddleboat rentals for the family, and canoes and kayaks for rent.
Visit the Stevie Ray Vaughan Statue memorial statue on the shores of Town Lake after your cruise or canoe adventure. A big loop around Town Lake, A good place for biking, running, walking, or taking the dog out for a nice run. Enjoy beautiful scenery while getting a good workout. Relatively easy hike.
Tubing the San Marcos River
(512) 396-5466
The Lion’s club of San Marcos
170 Bobcat Dr.
San Marcos, TX 78666
Tubing the San Marcos River in San Marcos, 25 miles south of town on I-35. There is no more quintessentially Central Texan thing than enjoying a summer afternoon lazily floating down the river. Rents tubes at around $4/person or canoes at $10/each. They take you to the river and pick you up.
Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve
(512) 327-7622
805 Capital of Texas Highway
Zilker Park
(512) 478-0905
2201 Barton Springs Road
This 400-acre park is home to natural spring-fed Barton Springs Pool, a miniature train that circles the park for children to ride, a giant plays cape, picnic grounds, rugby and soccer fields, a disc golf course and canoe and kayak rentals. At Christmastime, one of the city’s moonlight towers serves as the trunk for the Zilker Park Christmas Tree. Thousands of colored lights are strung to form the shape, and each year locals and visitors twirl around underneath the enormous structure.
Enjoy a number of musical, dance and theater events at the Zilker Hillside Theatre, where the Austin Shakespeare Festival is held each year. Or, visit the Zilker Botanical Gardens, where visitors spend the better part of a day enjoying the cactus, succulents, roses, butterflies and special gardens offered for free.
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