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A crackling bonfire and the sweet smells of candied apples, popping kettle corn, and comforting hot cocoa tease your senses at one of the greatest Austin holiday traditions of all time. Oh, yes. Trail of Lights is back.
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Whether you’re dipping your toes into Barton Springs Pool, jamming out at a Blues on the Green concert, or cycling around Lady Bird Lake, Zilker Park will keep you busy every second of the summer. There’s another adventure to add to this year’s list of things to do around our beloved park: Woodland Faerie Trail at Zilker Botanical Garden.
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Let’s go fly a kite at the 90th ABC Kite Fest on March 31, 2019! Whimsical freedom whooshes through the air as tangled colors dance in the wind. Heads are cocked up at the splendiferous Austin skyline, while live music pumps throughout the friendly ambiance.
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Scene from The Comedy of Errors at Zilker Hillside Theater (Credit: Sam Zavieh)
Free Shakespeare in Zilker Park is an experience I look forward to every year. It combines three of my favorite things: Shakespeare, being outside under the stars on an early summer evening, and free stuff. That’s right! Shakespeare in the Park is completely free theater, although they gladly accept donations.
This is a great place to take a special someone or your group of friends, and let the Bard’s words wrap around you while the fireflies dance. [Read more…]
Celebrate 100 years of Zilker Park at Free Day this Sunday (Credit: JTPics.com)
It’s an unfortunate irony. We tend to put off doing and seeing the things that are in close proximity to us. We know the view from Mount Bonnell is arguably the best in Austin, but we haven’t been there in ten years. We’ve thought about taking a boat tour during bat season, but we’ve never done it. Those things are “too touristy,” and that’s not cool.
For too many of us, so it goes with Zilker Park. Never mind the huge events. Every day of the year, there’s something to do there: Barton Springs Pool, Zilker Botanical Garden, Austin Nature & Science Center, Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum, the Zilker Zephyr. [Read more…]
Zilker Park (Credit: Jared Tennant Photography)
There is never a day that Zilker Park lays dormant. If there isn’t a festival forming a patchwork over the grassy expanses, then the acres are still alive with visitors exploring its many attractions and arteries. Zilker Park isn’t a place you can fully experience in a day or even a week. It takes a full year to take in all of its faces, and a history lesson to understand how the park came to be the cornerstone of everything we Austinites hold near and dear. [Read more…]
The 87th Annual Zilker Park Kite Festival is March 1, 2015 (Credit: David King)
One of the best ways to forget yourself and all the baggage that comes with you is to buy or make your own personal aircraft. You can use string, paper, sticks or whatever’s handy. Just make sure you’re finished by March 1, 2015, when Zilker Kite Festival returns for another year. [Read more…]
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Splash around before the movie at Deep Eddy Pool
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There’s nothing like summertime in our city. For today’s podcast episode, we’ve put together a list of our top 4 outdoor summer events in Austin.
You don’t want to miss these events. Many of them have been around Austin for years and have become summer traditions for many Austinities. Maybe you’ll become one of them! [Read more…]
Brushy Creek Park, my top pick
This guest blog post is by Ashly Howard.
As a mother of three, I want to make sure my children have just as much fun at the park as I do at the casino. I want to make sure their hair blows in the wind and their minds race deciding what they want to do next, as they explore their magical plastic wonderland.
But I may be a bit overprotective when deciding which park to take them to, and I do my research ten-fold. Though I want to get my children out of the house as much as possible, I don’t want to take them to a place that’s dirty or infested, or that is so busy that it’s impossible to keep up. [Read more…]
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Austin is a huge city for the sport of disc golf, and getting started is easier than you might think.
In fact, this weekend is the perfect time to get involved because Austin’s Waterloo Disc Golf Club is hosting the World’s Biggest Disc Golf Weekend at Zilker Park. Stop by Zilker between 9 AM and 5 PM this Sunday, May 6th, to meet the community and show off your skills on the fairway. Or, in our case, to wrestle through groves of trees looking for lost discs.
Seriously, you don’t have to know what you’re doing to come out to the World’s Biggest Disc Golf Weekend. It’s an event designed to raise awareness of the sport and get new people excited and involved. Play is free is you have your own discs. If you don’t have discs yet, they will be available at Zilker Park for an affordable price.
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