 Lake Travis
www.laketravis.com/main_about.htm
Located on the Colorado River northwest of Austin, Lake Travis is 63.75 miles long. There are 270 miles
of shoreline around the lake and it has a maximum depth of 210 feet. Lake Travis was created by the impounding of
the Colorado River by the construction of Mansfield Dam in 1937-41. It is best known for its warmer water
which makes for excellent water skiing conditions and also for it’s beautiful summer Regatta/sailing races.
Zilker Park
www.ci.austin.tx.us/zilker
This beautiful park is the heartbeat of Austin’s park system. It is located along
some of Town Lake’s shores and offers several soccer, football, baseball, and rugby fields, as well as many
picnic areas. There is a rowing dock along the inlet of this lake where the Parks and Recreation Department
concession promotes rowing and other family watersports. In the summer time there are free monthly plays, etc,
performed by the Zilker Hillside Theatre...bring your picnic blanket and basket and relax on a Friday night.
|
Austin Bats
www.batcon.org/discover/congress.html
One of the most amazing sights in Austin takes place every evening at dusk from March to
early November, when 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats emerge from their roosts under the Congress Avenue
Bridge. On these nightly outings from under this bridge, the Austin bats eat from 10,000 to 30,000 pounds of
insects, including agricultural pests. This is the largest urban bat colony in North American. It is
estimated that more than 100,000 people visit the bridge to witness the bat flight each evening.
|
Lake Austin
www.highlandlakes.net/lakeaustin
Lake Austin is the 6th lake down in the chain of Highland Lakes on the Colorado River in
central Texas. The lake starts where Lake Travis ends at the Mansfield Dam and ends at Tom Miller Dam
near downtown Austin. Lake Austin is considered a relatively constant level lake which is fed by the waters in
Lake Travis. Every other year around the months of January/February the waters are lowered approximately 12 feet for
everyone to clean and work on their bulk heads, boat docks, and the freezing and removal of duck weed which grows
in the lake. It is an excellent water skiing lake.
LBJ Library & Museum
www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/museum.hom/directions.shtm
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum is one of ten presidential libraries
administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. The library houses forty million pages of
historical documents which include the papers from the entire public career of Lyndon Baines Johnson and also
from those of close associates. These papers and the vast administrative files from the presidency are used
primarily by scholars.
The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
www.thestoryoftexas.com/about/about.shtm
Located in downtown Austin, the Museum tells the “Story of Texas” with three floors of
interactive exhibits, special effects shows in the Texas Spirit Theater, and Austin’s only IMAX theatre. A
35-foot-tall bronze Lone Star sculpture greets visitors in front of the Museum, and a colorful terrazzo floor
in the Museum’s rotunda features a campfire scene with enduring themes from Texas’ past. The Museum also has a
café with indoor and outdoor seating.
|
