Детали
Near the close of the millennium, the 700-acre patch of land wedged between Airport Boulevard, 51st Street, I-35, and Manor Road served ten airlines as a municipal airport named after former city councilor Robert Mueller. Unable to meet growing capacity but boxed in from expansion, the city chose to relocate the airport to the site of the recently closed Bergstrom Air Force Base. Partnering with Catellus Development Corporation, the City of Austin thoughtfully reclaimed the old airport space to help accommodate residential expansion.
Our 6.3 mile walk seeks to experience the neighborhood as it was envisioned, tracing its three peripheral greenbelts before visiting its bustling commercial center.
Along the way, we’ll encounter remnants of the old airport, including two airport hangars (one now a 20-acre movie production site, the other a food trailer park) and the iconic Croft Tower- once an air traffic control tower. While the neighborhood’s namesake Mueller Lake is landscaped, the Southeast Greenway maintains a restored blacklands prairie habitat. Southwest Greenway, built in collaboration with the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, reintroduces native plants. The Northwest Greenway serves as a stormwater management system.
By the end of the walk, we’ll be hungry but surrounded by an abundance of food options…so some of us will stick around.
TRANSIT LOGISTICS:
- 8 AM start, on our Summer schedule
- We’ll meet at the parking lot by Field 1 of the Delwood Sports Complex in Bartholomew District Park. If you have any trouble finding a spot, there should be plenty of street parking just north in Windsor Park on Sunny Brook, Westmoor, Suffolk, and other neighborhood streets.
- Official walk map