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Your A-List: Best Park
Home to weekend picnickers, soccer fanatics, kite-fliers, festival-goers, and at one point or another anyone else in Austin not found under said umbrella, Zilker Park is winner of the Your A-List poll for Best Park.
The 351-acre natural retreat set along the Colorado River offers some of the best views of the downtown skyline, but feels miles and miles away from the crowded and noisy streets of the city’s center. Ask any local or visitor to the city what their favorite things are about Austin, and you Zilker Park is all but guaranteed to be near the top of that list.
From the City of Austin’s Web site:
In 1918, A.J. Zilker deeded the 35 acres surrounding Barton Springs to the City of Austin. In 1932, Zilker agreed to give the military school established during the First World War an additional 330 acres, joining the 35 acres on the north side of the original tract if the city would buy the acreage from the school for $200,000. This action was approved in a bond election and despite the economic depression of the 1930’s, the land was developed into Zilker Park.
Others receiving votes
- Barton Creek Greenbelt, 14 percent
- Auditorium Shores, 6 percent
- Bastrop State Park, 5 percent
- Hippie Hollow, 5 percent
- Pace Bend Park, 5 percent
- Bull Creek Park, 3 percent
- Umlauf Sculpture Garden, 3 percent
- Waterloo Park, 2 percent
- Republic Square, < 1 percent
Write-ins: McKinney Falls State Park, Rollingwood Park
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