Mount Bonnell
Viewpoint · Austin, Texas
A limestone bluff above Lake Austin, around seven hundred and eighty feet up and one of the highest points inside the city, reached by about a hundred stone steps. The view takes in the lake, the Colorado River valley and the Hill Country rolling west. People have been climbing it since the 1850s; it has been a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark since 1969 and on the National Register since 2015, and it is free.
3800 Mount Bonnell Road, Austin, Texas, 78731, United States
Open daily 5 AM - 10 PM. FREE, including parking. ⚠ About a hundred uneven limestone steps to the summit, unlit after dark. The small car park on Mount Bonnell Road fills at weekends and around sunset, and the approach is a narrow residential road with restricted parking.