Lady Bird Lake is a river-like reservoir on the Colorado River in Austin, Texas, United States. The City of Austin created the reservoir in 1960 as a cooling pond for a new city power plant. The lake, which has a surface area of 416 acres (168 ha), is now used primarily for recreation and flood control. The reservoir is named in honor of former First Lady of the United States Lady Bird Johnson.
View from Lady Bird Lake toward Downtown Austin.
Longhorn Dam impounds Lady Bird Lake.
View of Lady Bird Lake and the Downtown skyline seen from the East Riverside neighborhood.
Many Austinites take advantage of the Butler Trail to keep fit by walking, running or cycling.
The Colorado River is an approximately 862-mile-long (1,387 km) river in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the 11th longest river in the United States and the longest river with both its source and its mouth within Texas.
Colorado River in Austin as seen from Mount Bonnell
Oblique air photo of the Colorado River where it crosses from Colorado County into Wharton County near Nada.
Pennybacker Bridge crossing the Lake Austin portion of the Colorado River
The Colorado River 5 mi (8 km) from its source along the Caprock Escarpment, the border of Dawson and Borden County.
