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Auditorium Shores is an urban park located in downtown Austin, Texas, within the larger Town Lake Park. Its name refers to its location between the former Palmer Auditorium and the shores of Lady Bird Lake. The park is known as the site of major music performances at South by Southwest and Fun Fun Fun Fest, as well as a number of other events.
Longhorn Dam impounds Lady Bird Lake. The City of Austin constructed Longhorn Dam in 1960 to form Town Lake. The city needed the reservoir to serve as a cooling pond for the Holly Street Power Plant, which operated from 1960 until 2007. [2] Before 1971, the shoreline of Town Lake was mostly a mixture of weeds, unkempt bushes, and trash. [3]
In 1965 the Austin chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction approached the City with a proposal to contribute a civic structure to beautify the Town Lake shoreline. [2] On November 9, 1965, City Council approved NAWIC's plan to build a public gazebo that would provide a scenic view of downtown Austin and of the lake from ...
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Let's give that no-name peninsula a name. Recent articles in the American-Statesman about improvements to the Butler Hike and Bike Trail on the north shore of Lady Bird Lake in East Austin ...
From 1962 to 1998, the signature event absorbed much of the city, especially in and around Town Lake, now known as Lady Bird Lake. "Sponsored by the Austin Chamber of Commerce, early Aqua Fests ...
Emma Long Metropolitan Park is a large municipal park in northwest Austin, Texas (United States). The park is on the shores of Lake Austin and was originally called City Park. The park features open space, camp sites, boat ramps, picnic table sites and a designating swimming area.
Longhorn Dam is a dam crossing the Colorado River in Austin, Texas, United States, where it creates Lady Bird Lake.Completed in 1960, the dam was built by the City of Austin as the last in a chain of Colorado River dams in central Texas begun during the Great Depression.