Best places: Hiking areas in Austin, United States

This popular urban natural area offers opportunities for biking, hiking, swimming & rock climbing.

👍👍 Love this place. Helps me set myself up for rest of the day! Great easy trails. plenty of spots to stop and enjoy the view and wildlife.

7,250-ft. boardwalk along & across the lake, offering views of the shoreline, city & turtles.

Picturesque, riverfront park offering a popular forested hiking trail, waterfalls & wildlife views.

👍👍 Excellent 2.8- 3 miles of a nature trail! Beautiful scenery, a mixture of incline/ decline, elevation, water views. This is an off- leash dog trail🐾. I go to many different trails throughout Central Texas- this is hands- down the busiest trail (people and dogs) that I have been to. I went on a Satu...

😠 Lovely trail. Awesome river. Unfortunately marred by an ongoing issue of safety. The parking lot is full of broken glass from cars being broken into. Our car was broken into and items were stolen. Not safe, and the Austin Police Department doesn’t really seam to care despite this being a COMMON issu...

👍👍 Nice greenbelt park. Everyone was respectful. It's very clean so please keep it that way and pick up your trash.

80-acre nature center features educational exhibits including replicas of fossils & dinosaur tracks.

👍👍 There are 3 entrances to this Trail. Google Maps will take you to on entrance that is close to the Scottland Weil Lift Station. There is parking for 3 Cars there. This is the best entrance for joggers, specially if you are coming to the trail from any point on Spicewood Springs Rd. We drove to the...

👍👍 Great through hike with running water. Playscape has a nice variety.

👍 Always have such a wonderful hike on the greenbelt, but have had an alarming increase of disrespectful hikers that have been trashing the place. That's why I started a Facebook group called Project Clean Up Austin Trails. A group of us head out for a hike and pick up trash on our way out. Always s...

Serene, wooded green space along a creek featuring a tree-lined trail & BBQ pits.

Long & leafy, this public park has soccer fields, a paved trail & ample picnicking facilities.

Portal for a 30-mile hiking & biking trail through forested parkland & neighborhoods.

😠 Bug was sweet but you could tell it was her first time on a tour. She forgot the stories and did apologize profusely; however, the nerves really got to her. She shook a lot in the legs and messed with her water bottle a lot making it a little uncomfortable to watch. The walk was a little boring and...

Grotto network in a preserve with some crawl-through narrow spaces & a large chamber used by cavers.

👍 Quiet, convenient nature trail right in the heart of suburban North Austin on either side of Duval Road. Basically a strip of undeveloped woodland running mostly alongside a normally dry creek bed that lies perpendicular to Duval, below the street level, and flows under it. Well-trodden dirt trail...