About 1.5 miles from Northwest Balcones Park and Tanglewood Park is Mountain View Park, part of the upper Bull Creek area. Mountain View Park Mountain View Park is also a City of Austin park that services the surrounding neighborhoods, but it is a few acres bigger than Northwest Balcones. I expected a view like Mt. Bonnell from its name, […]
Category: Playgrounds
Springwoods Park in Northwest Austin is one of our favorite parks! There are two large playscapes (one for bigs and one for littles), a sand volleyball court (read: a giant sandbox – bring shovels!), athletic fields, covered pavilions, a tennis court, restrooms, a walking trail that meanders through a mini forest-like setting, and so many […]
The kids and I have been to Schroeter Park twice in a week just because they really like this playground. This is a neighborhood playground that the City of Austin maintains. There is no parking lot, just along the street, and the kids like walking up the little gravel path, passing cactus, bluebonnets, and other […]
Tanglewood Park is one of our favorite parks in the Northwest Austin area, very close to Canyon Vista Middle School on Spicewood Springs. It is not the newest (nor the oldest) park around, but this small neighborhood park has handicapped accessible features which also makes the larger playing structure easy even for my toddler to navigate and use […]
In the Northwest Austin’s Milwood neighborhood, there are two wonderful parks—Robinson and Rattan Creek—operated by the North Austin MUD #1. The parks are linked together by a series of walking trails. Robinson Playground Park is the smaller of the two, and as the name implies, this is truly a playground park. This is one of […]
