What better way to bond with friends and family than showcasing your Uzi skills? The Range features a state of the art facility and immersive experience that begins the moment you step inside.
Your party's Safety Officer will run you through the protocol and demonstrate proper usage of your gun s. The Range Safety Officer is there to assist your party from start to finish and make sure you're prepared for the next invasion.
Often catering to Austin's elite, the boat scene at Devil's Cove has earned its nickname with boats tying together creating a dance floor that rival's Austin's best night clubs. Party Cove on Lake Austin is a little closer, more intimate, and equally fun. Both lakes have active wakeboard and skier scenes. The guys at Float On Boat Rentals make access easy with an assortment of boat rentals options that cater to any and all boating needs in Austin. The sunset tours are BYOB so you can pick up a bottle of wine, meet some new people, and check out some really cool real estate while enjoying a beautiful sunset.
Located in Southwest Austin, Magic's Theater offers a full auditorium sized Magic show on Saturday nights and a close up magic show on Friday nights.
It also doubles as a magic museum with pieces from Harry Houdini's collection, and offers a snack bar. One worthwhile feature is that you can bring your own wine with a small corkage fee. You and your crew can take a private ride from your location in Austin to three celebrated distilleries: Dripping Springs Distilling, Treaty Oaks Distillery, and the Desert Door Distillery. Maybe take some notes on how to make your own hooch in case prohibition circles back to the new America. Or just enjoy drinks at each location and soak in the views.
The guys at Austin Tour Company make it fun, safe, and legal to let go a little. Definitely one of the more popular tourist activities in Austin, Barton Springs Pool offers a natural water hole that stays a chilly 68 degrees all year round.
See some killer photos and learn more using the button below. The Flats is known to host large gatherings, even the occasional drum circle. Twin Falls offers one of the better waterfalls, and Sculpture Falls is known for a little solitude.
There's also great rock climbing, mountain biking, hiking, and other outdoor activities that appeal to a wide array of outdoorsy types. It's best when the water if flowing, even if it's low just 15 - 20 cfs.
Rainey Street District is probably the most unusual nightlife scene in Austin. The first bar to open in Rainey was Lustre Pearl located in an old home. Not too long after other homes converted into bars and now the area is covered with bars, hotels, restaurants, and food trucks, offering one of Austin's most unique nightlife districts.
Nothing cures a hangover from a night out on Rainey Street like Austin's favorite meal of the day! Rallying your squad for a boozy brunch is an Austin tradition. Consider a "brunch crawl" for some elevated day drinking and the perfect pre-party for another big night out.
The team at Twisted Texas Tour offers several brunch experiences with private and public options available. From a bus with a live band to walking tours around our city's favorite neighborhoods, they've got you covered. There are two large river boat operations on Lady Bird Lake that are super packed during warmer months taking people on bat watching tours.
When they bats leave, they still offer great tours of Lady Bird Lake. Capital Cruises offers evening sunset tour and afternoon sightseeing tours on the weekends. Both tour operators have optional menus for private cruises that cater to parties ranging in size.
Capital Cruises has a smaller boat that goes out with people. Both companies can handle large parties ranging from 30 - Use these buttons to learn more. It wasn't until they finished the boardwalk on Lady Bird Lake that you could circle the entire trail without a few treks on the road. Now there's a full We love getting our bikes out there when the weather is right.
Six years later a marvellous sculpture garden opened here on the verdant south bank of Barton Creek. In style they run the gamut from lyrical abstraction to abstract expressionism, and subjects range from female nudes to religious symbols, animals and mythological figures. The largest urban bat colony in the world resides under the roadway of this bridge carrying Congress Avenue across Lady Bird Lake. The 1. At dusk, crowds gather on the crossing, and people even paddle up in kayaks, to watch hundreds of thousands of bats spiraling into the half-light.
The bats first moved in after the bridge was reconstructed in , making themselves comfortable in little crevices.
At first they were viewed with fear, but these city dwellers are harmless and great for pest control, consuming up to nine tons of insects like flies, wasps and moths. The cottage is now rented out for weddings, and the space immediately around it, enclosed by a stone wall, was turned into a lush botanical garden in the 20th century.
The wooded area outside the wall is a preserve, where trails weave along creeks and next to the Laguna Gloria lagoon. Peacocks go where they please on the grounds and are happy to pose for photographs. On the south shore of Lady Bird Lake on the waterfront trail is a park laid out in and with a dizzying social calendar. The biggest annual event is South by Southwest when you might find a free concert or two, but this is also the place to marvel at the 4th of July fireworks, soundtracked by the Austin Symphony Orchestra, and ring in the new year.
Texas bluesman Stevie Ray Vaughan played Auditorium Shores plenty of times and was honored with a bronze memorial statue by the trail following his death in a helicopter crash in Source: drafthouse. This fast-spreading cinema chain for true movie lovers was born in Austin in , founded by two Rice University alumni in a parking garage in the Warehouse District.
Food and drink have starring roles too, and the chain even concocts special menus for many movies. Source: thecontemporaryaustin. One new space is the Moody Rooftop, an enclosed gallery with high windows and a front-row view of the Austin skyline. At the Jones Center you can check out exhibitions by leading contemporary artists Nicole Eisenman in , shop at the museum store and attend talks, opening receptions and more.
East Sixth Street lives up to its nickname, Dirty Sixth, and on weekends is a tattered, neon-lit place to hit a dive bar, take in some live music and generally have a good time. Thursday to Saturday the street is closed to road traffic and fills up in the evenings with revellers. One of the largest and oldest culture and music festivals, the Pecan Street Festival, takes place here every September and May. This is the oldest operating hotel in the city, conceived by the cattleman Col. LBJ and Lady Bird went on their first date at the Driskill in , and it was here at the Jim Hogg suite that Johnson watched the results of the election come in.
The Driskill Bar is another shot of old-world Texas, with cowhide barstools, cattle branded carpets and a Texas longhorn on the mantelpiece. The Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium has been repeatedly enlarged since it was dedicated in , and when we wrote this article in a project on the south end zone would completely enclose the playing field and create new luxury suites and a state-of-the-art scoreboard. The 2,capacity venue puts on or so concerts a year, and is considered by those who know to have the best sound of any Austin stage.
Austin City Limits, the festival, goes down in Zilker Park across two consecutive three-day weekends at the start of October. Over , people show up for rock, hip hop, folk country, electronic and indie, on eight stages. The German-American sculptor, Elisabet Ney immigrated to Texas at the age of 39 when she was at the height of her powers. You can peruse sculpted medallions, more than 50 busts and full-sized sculptures of numerous important figures.
The permanent exhibition serves as a complete timeline for her story, with commissions by Ludwig II of Bavaria, Otto von Bismarck and Giuseppe Garibaldi from her European phase, as well the representations of Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin that she contributed for the Texas State Capitol. The 2. On an ordinary visit there will be dozens of fruit and vegetable stalls, as well as flowers, cheese, eggs, meat, honey, syrups, salsas and jams. Clara Driscoll and her husband Hal Sevier, editor of the Austin American, modeled their palatial residence after the villas on the shores of Lake Como, Italy.
Clara, a keen horticulturalist, spent decades perfecting the gardens until just before she passed away when she donated the property to be used as a city museum. The grounds, with live oaks, cypresses and palms, descend on terraces to the namesake lagoon, pulling off the Colorado River. West of the city, in the scenic Texas Hill Country, Austin Zoo is geared towards rescue, rehabilitation and education. Most of the residents are retired lab research subjects, animals involved in cruelty cases, re-homed exotic pets and exhibits from other zoos that have been retired.
For a brief run down, there are tigers, lions, cougars, bobcats, wolf hybrids, capuchin monkeys, ring-tailed lemurs, common marmosets, emus, macaws and a wide variety of reptiles including a Galapagos tortoise. The zoo also keeps lots of domestic animals like longhorn cattle, llamas, sheep, goats and miniature donkeys. Spark Shop is about tinkering, letting children and grownups tinker, build new toys and launch gliders.
Source: facebook. In a fast-moving city with so many nooks, secrets and subcultures it can be hard to know how to dive in. The Austin Visitor Center will help you get oriented with insider knowledge on shops, restaurants, bars, live music and outdoor activities.
There are piles of free maps and brochures to take with you, and the center has its own lounge with restrooms, charging stations, a media wall and free Wi-Fi. In Covert Park, this limestone ledge climbs to meters above the Colorado River Valley and is part of the cretaceous Balcones Fault, running from Del Rio in the southwest of the State, up as far as Dallas.
The parking area for Mount Bonnell is at the north end of Covert Park, and a trail leads you south along the cliff-top to the highest point, next to mountain laurel, live oak and cedar. Amid the high-rise towers this commercial street leading down to Lady Bird Lake has kept hold of some of its historic character. Just as in its earliest days, the historic Paramount Theatre on Congress Avenue puts on both live performances with movies.
Able to seat more than 1,, the auditorium welcomes famous recording artists, big-time stand-up comedians, sketch acts and podcast tapings. If you want to check out, you can usually buy a wristband from someone at the entrance. Zilker Park, aclfestival. Fredericksburg, the Texas Hill Country, is home to over 45 wineries and vineyards.
Fredericksburg TX, visitfredericksburgtx. You have to eat barbecue in Austin and the best experience is at Salt Lick because of the one-of-a-kind massive meat barbecue pit in Driftwood. Prepare to go home smelling like bbq. Cash only and BYOB. Even living in Austin for 10 years, I still love a quick hot slice of margherita pizza from the walk-up window at Home Slice Pizza and a topo chico. And then go try their sister restaurant, Uchiko.
Veracruz is loved by the locals for its all-natural ingredients and authentic, fresh tacos and salsas. Multiple locations, veracruztacos. What makes Austin special and different from Houston and Dallas is our love for patio dining and Contigo is at the top of the list with their outdoor restaurant that serves a farm-to-table menu. Also very family-friendly! These are not your ordinary doughnut shop doughnuts. There are tons of live music venues in Austin but Mohawk is one of the top picks in downtown Austin.
Everyone has to go at least once but nobody says you have to go more than twice. Watch out for horse poop. Container Bar is made entirely out of shipping containers. I did a staycation there last month and loved the chill vibe. Uncommon Objects is an antique and vintage shop that is filled with relics. You can easily spend hours here! Handpainted blown glass lingerie ornament from China? Vintage bowls from Morocco? Love to shop? I just bought a record player so Waterloo Records is on my shopping list.
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