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Win Free 3-day Passes to the Austin City Limits Music Festival!

Every month from now through September, Austin Parks Foundation will be giving away a pair of ACL Music Festival 3-day wristbands! All you have to do to be entered to win is join or renew your Austin Parks Foundation membership. Your membership helps maintain and improve Austin's 209 parks. Everyone who joins or renews at the $35 level or above from July 2 through September 17 will be eligible to win. We will draw a random winner once a month and notify the winner via phone or email. Thanks so much to Austin City Limits Music Festival organizers C3 Presents for making this great promotion possible! See the complete rules here.

Movies in the Park Summer Movie Series Begins! Join us at Republic Square Park, Saturday, July 19 for Clueless (rated PG13). Full details are on our Movies in the Park page!

Construction of Bike Lanes on Barton Springs Road in Zilker Park Begins

Construction will begin June 30, 2008, on five-foot bicycle lanes along both sides of Barton Springs Road within Zilker Park, beginning west of the Barton Creek Bridge, extending west under the Loop 1 overpass and terminating near Rollingwood Drive. More on our News page

Summer Newsletter Now On-Line

Our summer print newsletter, mailed to all our members, is now available on-line. In this edition, an update on grant projects around town, "Dogs in Parks: What Every Dog Owner Needs to Know", and more. Read it here.

It's My Park! Day, April 12, A Huge Success!

It’s My Park! Day is an annual city-wide community service day focused on improvements to Austin’s park system. Individuals and community groups lead projects ranging from simple cleaning and repair to trail building and playground installation.

Nearly 1,600 people attended 45 different events at parks all over town! For pictures and highlights, visit our It's My Park! Day page.

Find the Perfect Park

Is there an off-leash park in my area? Which parks have swimming pools? We've added a new feature to our celebrated Find-A-Park website that lets you answer these questions and more. Now you can search for parks by amenity, as well as by zip code, area, or name. Of course, it's also fun just to browse the random selection of parks and pictures that show up in the sidebar. A big thanks to our volunteer programmer, Roger Meador, and to all those who have contributed text and photographs! Check it out.

Other items of interest:

See pictures of volunteer events on our Flickr account.

Read about recent park projects by Austin Parks Foundation friends and Neighborhood Park Grant recipients.

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