The future Walnut Creek Trail will ultimately be a 16-mile, 12 foot wide concrete trail from Balcones District Park in NW Austin to Govalle Park in East Austin. This runs through and connects to trails in Walnut Creek Metro Park, but doesn’t replace any of those mountain biking trails. Based on a presentation by Parks and Recreation Project Staff on …
Photos from Sat Copperfield & Tarrytown Park workdays
Alice from Copperfield Nature Trails and Elizabeth from Tarrytown Park sent us their photo albums from their successful (and chilly) Saturday morning volunteer workdays. Volunteers at Copperfield (photos here) worked on blazing another portion of their trail while volunteers at Tarrytown planted trees (photos here) with help from the Parks Dept Forestry team. Congrats to both groups on very successful workdays.
Sparky Park Puts Up a Wall (and its great!)
Sparky Park is a former Austin Energy substation that has been converted to a pocket park. The North University Neighborhood Association began work over three years ago to develop concepts for the makeover, which removed all of the towers and equipment, but left the really cool substation building (to be redone in a future phase). Then several wireless phone companies …
Another Successful Project Build A Park
Once again, the Austin Parks Foundation and SEATAG (SE Austin Trails & Greenways) partnered with the office of Student Life at Austin Community College to host the 7th annual Project Build A Park. For the third time, we worked at Country Club Creek Trail in SE Austin inside Guerrero-Colorado River Park to build more of the 1.5 mile trail, remove …
Playtime
Since my husband and I recently added a two-year-old to our household, I’m re-exploring Austin’s parks with a new perspective. One of my favorite neighborhood parks has long been Shipe Park, and it still is. Shipe is a small park, but I find it has everything I want. Here’s what I think makes a good park to bring small children …
ClifBar Greenotes Barton Creek Cleanup & Concert – Nov 1
Our thanks to ClifBar and REI along with Keep Austin Beautiful for helping us host the ClifBar Greenotes Barton Creek Greenbelt clean-up. 95 volunteers turned out to the Zilker Park Polo Fields Picnic Area to sign-in, grab trash bags and then clean-up portions of the Barton Creek greenbelt from a number of trailheads including Zilker, Spyglass, Loop 360, and Twin …
Brush Square @ Cap Metro Station Update: 10/28/08
Work continues to progress along 4th St, as well as portions of Trinity St for improvements to the south side of Brush Square. Sidewalks are being poured and finished, eight of the ten new Oak trees have been planted and crews are working to finish out the remaining sidewalks near the Hilton and installing street lights, a welcome addition to …
Palm Park – Thanks Texas Gas Service!
Beginning back in April, Texas Gas Service (TGS) crews labored to remove an old, hazardous tennis court along with fencing at Palm Park, located at 3rd Sts and SB frontage of I-35 in downtown Austin. They spread some soil we had delivered but it needed some more fill. Thanks to 10 truckloads of soil from the foundation’s Auction Oaks @ …
Brush Square – 4th St Work Continues
I must admit that I’m a little surprised at how much the construction of the new curbs, “great streets” sidewalk and tree area is taking out a chunk of Brush Square along 4th St. Cap Metro’s contractor assures us that everything will look better and we’ll end up with a better park. Unfortunately, due to a host of irrigation issues …
Volunteer Nov 1 to Clean-Up Barton Creek Greenbelt!
GreenNotes Concert and Cleanup, November 1 Join CLIF Bar, Austin Parks Foundation, Sierra Club, Keep Austin Beautiful, REI and Austin-based musician Ben Kweller for a Barton Creek Greenbelt cleanup and concert event from 10 am to 3 pm beginning at Zilker Park Polo Fields Clif Bar will provide the food to keep the energy up, and Ben Kweller will provide …