Lake Austin TX Real Estate Summary

Lake Austin Living

Both lakes are great locations for fun on the water. Lake Austin is a popular boating and fishing spot and it is easy to see why. At the end of a fun-filled day, stop at The Pier to listen to live local music. Along Lake Austin, you will find Emma Long Park, which features great mountain biking trails. Lady Bird Lake (formerly known as Town Lake) is a placid lake, making it ideal for canoeing, sculling or paddle boating. Lady Bird Lake also features trails where you can take a nice long walk or do a little jogging or bike riding. Much of the park’s landscaped beauty surrounding Lady Bird Lake can be credited to the former First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, who in the 1970s focused her attention on the Town Lake Beautification Project. Lady Bird Lake and the surrounding area is a magnet for rowing, jogging and cycling. Some 15 public golf courses are easily accessible along with a range of sporting events, concerts and theatrical productions that take place throughout the city.

Music venues on the banks of Lady Bird Lake are home to a number of events year round, including the Austin City Limits Music Festival in the fall, the Marley Fest in the spring, and many open-air concerts at Auditorium Shores on the south bank, and Fiesta Gardens on the north bank. The late Austin resident and blues guitar legend, Stevie Ray Vaughan, played a number of concerts at Auditorium Shores and is honored with a memorial statue on the banks.

Austin is a thriving city, as CNN.com recently ranked it among the “Top Ten Cities for Job Growth,” and Kiplinger.com rated it among the “Coolest Cities” for young professionals, citing the University of Texas, strong economy and vibrant nightlife as contributing factors to the Capital City’s “cool” factor.

Austin is proud to be totally unique from the rest of Texas. There is always something new and unusual along Sixth Street to Congress Avenue, and no shortage of burnt orange-clad University of Texas students. The UT Longhorns Football team claimed the National Collegiate Championship title in 2005 and they are looking for a repeat. The entertainment areas along Lady Bird Lake include everything from four-star restaurants to down-home barbecue joints. Here, corporate CEOs and struggling musicians alike enjoy the laid back atmosphere. It’s hip and trendy, yet in a vintage sort of way. It's high-tech and laid-back. It's politically charged and culturally rich. It's eclectic by nature and creative by design. Most of all, it's a place where people like to have a good time.

Austin stakes a claim to being the "Gateway to the Hill Country." Along the western edge of the city, the Balcones Escarpment rises up to separate flat prairies from the rolling hills. Blessed with an undulating landscape and 300 days of sunshine a year, Austin lives for the outdoors. Three lakes surround the city, with Lady Bird Lake bisecting downtown. Some 10 miles of hike-and-bike trails border the lake. Each night from March through October, more than 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats fly out from beneath the Congress Avenue Bridge of Lady Bird Lake.

Recognized among the world's top creative cities, Austin supports a thriving arts and cultural scene. Austin was ranked as the city having the highest creativity index score in Richard Florida's ground-breaking book The Rise of the Creative Class. The cultural offerings include some 20 museums, dozens of art galleries and more than 60 performance companies.

The Mexic-Arte Museum exhibits art traditions of Mexico, while Arthouse features changing exhibits of contemporary Texas artists. The Austin Museum of Art maintains collections in two locations, downtown and at Laguna Gloria, a historic villa on Lake Austin. A newly expanded George Washington Carver Museum reveals the city's deep-rooted African-American heritage with permanent and changing exhibitions. Outstanding cultural resources are found on the campus of the University of Texas, where the Blanton Museum of Art opened a new facility showcasing an extensive collection spanning from Latin American folk art to contemporary masters. The renowned Harry Ransom Center ranks among the country's top cultural archives, housing such treasures as a rare Gutenberg Bible, the world's first photograph and Woodward and Bernstein's Watergate collection. The Lyndon B. Johnson Library & Museum chronicles the rise of a young Texas man from a humble upbringing to the pinnacle of power.

With more than 200 city parks, nearly 75 miles of maintained hike-and-bike trails, thousands of acres of nature preserves and 2.3 million acre-feet of water surrounding Austin, the city is addicted to the outdoors, recreation and sports. In addition to being a prime destination for participatory activities, the city is also home to The University of Texas Longhorn Athletics program and to several professional sports groups.

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