Austin hosts many parks and lakes which are popular for hiking, biking, swimming and boating. With plentiful opportunities to be immersed in nature, the Hike-and-Bike Trail around Lady Bird Lake is one of the city’s main outdoor attractions, enticing about 1.5 million visitors each year to its 10-mile trail adjacent to the Colorado River. Barton Creek Greenbelt allows locals to enjoy wooded hiking trails, creeks and swimming holes. On the grounds of Zilker Park, you’ll find the popular Barton Springs Pool. This “pool” measures three acres in size and is filled entirely with water from nearby natural springs which help maintain its average temperature of 68ºF–70ºF making it the ideal watering hole for beating Austin’s summer heat.

For many years, Austin’s mainstay for nightlife was the Sixth Street District, known by locals as ‘Dirty Sixth,’ but areas like Rainey Street (just south of downtown), South Congress and East Sixth are now popular alternatives. Each district offers its own charm and character and are lined with bars, pubs, and live-music venues.

If you visit Austin over the summer, be sure to check out one of the “weirder” attractions: The Congress Avenue Bats. Each evening at dusk the Congress Avenue Bridge fills with spectators awaiting the nightly flight of a migratory colony Mexican free-tailed bats as the emerge from under the bridge and fly across Lady Bird Lake to feed themselves. It is the world’s largest urban bat colony, with up to 1.5 million bats residing under the bridge in summer and wintering in Mexico.

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