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Austin Parks and Recreation Department. Open. Year-round. 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.
Emma Rowena Gatewood (née Caldwell; October 25, 1887 – June 4, 1973), [1] better known as Grandma Gatewood, was an American ultra-light hiking pioneer. After a difficult life as a farm wife, mother of eleven children, and survivor of domestic violence, she became famous as the first solo female thru-hiker of the 2,168-mile (3,489 km) Appalachian Trail (A.T.) in 1955 at the age of 67.
The Emma Matilda Lake Trail is a 10.7-mile (17.2 km) long hiking trail located within the Grand Teton National Park in the U.S. state of Wyoming. [1] This trail and the adjacent lake are named after the wife of William O. Owen, who in 1898 was among the first four climbers in recorded history to climb to the summit of Grand Teton.
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 ...
Max. depth. 60 ft (18 m) Surface elevation. 555 ft (169 m) Lake Walter E. Long (also known as Decker Lake) [1] is a reservoir on Decker Creek in Austin, Texas. It was officially impounded in 1967 and provides cooling water for a power plant that produces electricity from petroleum -based fuels. The dam and the lake are managed by the City of ...
Walnut Creek Metropolitan Park. A trail in the park. Location. 12138 N. Lamar Blvd. Austin, Texas, USA. Coordinates. 30°24′00″N 97°41′10″W / 30.400°N 97.686°W / 30.400; -97.686. Walnut Creek Metropolitan Park is a 293-acre (119 ha) public park in Northeast Austin, Texas. [1] The park features 15 miles of hiking trails ...
This is a list of notable long-distance trails in the United States, with a minimum length of 30 miles (48 km). Linear path traveling through the Appalachian and Allegheny Mountains. Loop trail in Moshannon State Forest. Passes through Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky (Southern Route), Indiana, Illinois, Iowa (Northern Route ...
1970. Designated TSAL. 5/28/1981. The moonlight towers in Austin, Texas, are the only known surviving moonlight towers in the world. They are 165 feet (50 m) tall and have a 15-foot (4.6 m) foundation. A single tower casts light from six carbon arc lamps, illuminating a 1,500-foot-radius (460 m) circle brightly enough to read a watch.