In the final days of the Georgetown Running Club’s 2020 Summer
Tour, I was able to find a place I hadn’t been before to explore. Extra points!
Hoody hoo! I’ve lived in Austin
for years, and this was a place which I drove by a lot, and I thought it was
only a playground area. Thanks to
looking on Google Maps I saw there were some trails to explore. This place is at the corner of Duval Road and
Amherst Drive, and initially appeared to be an open grassy area. But the trail actually took you along a
stream (dried up) which had a lot of tree cover.
This was mostly pavement, and I did see some bicyclists here and
there. After a short time, there’s a
Y-intersection. One branch will take you
up an incline which eventually circles you back around to the park near
Amherst. The other direction brings you
right to Mopac. The trail becomes part
of the sidewalk so you can cross a narrow pedestrian bridge, which will loop
you underneath the Mopac, and out to the other side. The trail resumes following Walnut Creek, and
eventually will lead you to the Gracywoods Neighborhood Park (and the Walnut
Creek Metropolitan Park a bit beyond that).
I obviously didn’t go that far on this trip, but I knew I’d have
something new to check out on a later trip.
I did have to point out that near the “under-Mopac loop” there
were was another side trail which paralleled the train tracks going north. There were also other areas where it appeared
the trail went off in the woods (heading in the westerly direction, back
towards the district park). There were
some No Trespassing signs at most of these sections, so I didn’t explore
them. Even looking on Google Maps it
showed that area to be just woods, so I don’t know who owned it to put the
signs up. One of the trails had an
archway with some pretty flowers on it.
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