Everything’s cooler on ice, so, cool off at Chaparral Ice, Austin's only indoor ice skating recreation venue with an NHL regulation-size rink available to the public. Visit during open skating sessions or schedule lessons. With fun and safety at their core, classes are provided and have fundamentals for recreational skating and a solid foundation for achieving success in figure skating, hockey, and other ice sports like curling and broomball. Whether it’s your first time on the ice, or you’re returning to a favorite pastime from childhood, or you wish to continue training for competitions, classes will guide you through the process with focus, fun, and safety.
Create a masterpiece at Ceramics Bayou, a paint-your-own pottery studio where you can choose from more than 400 art pieces to decorate and take home. Voted one of the top five family outings in Austin.
Don't let the musical event of the year pass you by. Buy a 3-day pass to the Austin City Limits Music Festival, a 130+ band outdoor festival every September on the banks of Lake Austin at Zilker Park. New artists like The National share the stage with heavyweights like Dave Matthews Band and Norah Jones.
Riverside Golf Course brings visitors a step back in time. The public course is steeped in Austin history and boasts excellent course conditions year-round, and is known for its mature, stately trees and big, open fairways. The 18-hole regulation course is located 3 miles from downtown Austin and offers 6562 yards of enjoyable golf. The course was designed by renowned architects J. Press and Perry Maxwell, and the historic site was the training and proving ground for Tom Kite and Ben Crenshaw. Breathtaking and distracting scenery gives this course much of its charm with its stately oaks, pecans and maples lining the fairways and slick Bermuda grass greeting golfers on the greens.