Local Attractions

Widely known in recent decades as a music mecca, Austin has a spirit of diversity and fun that's typical of a college town.

• Texas Memorial Museum (a natural science center)
• The Irwin Center (a venue for everything from basketball to the circus)
• If you're lucky, you may get to see the campus tower lit with orange lights (that means the Longhorns won the game)
• The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
• Downtown's Congress Avenue Bridge: go at dusk, when 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats emerge
• West 6th Street Artists' Market (weekends)

And Nearby...

• Colorado River (15 miles east, near Webberville)
• Hamilton Pool (30 miles southeast; underground cave with swimmable natural pool)