Join Hill Country Conservancy, the City of Austin Public Works Neighborhood Partnering Program, and community partners to celebrate a new community amenity on the Violet Crown Trail! Located at the Violet Crown Trail's Dick Nichols Trailhead in Southwest Austin, the Whirlpool Patio will serve as an...

Join Hill Country Conservancy board and committee members on National Public Lands Day for a morning at the Dick Nichols Violet Crown Trail trailhead! We'll kick off the morning by learning a little about the exciting upcoming plans for Whirlpool Patio. Then, we'll head off down...

Hosted by the Hill Country Conservancy - Join Hill Country Conservancy on National Trails Day to celebrate the grand opening of the Slaughter section of the Violet Crown Trail! The inaugural 5K run and 1K walk-and-talk will begin on the VCT at Slaughter at 7:30 am and...

From the Austin Parks Foundation, Violet Crown Trail, and the Hill Country Conservancy - Stop by the Sheffield Education Center at Barton Springs this Saturday to explore ideas for improvements to the Violet Crown Trail at the Barton Creek Greenbelt. Your input on the improvement plan...

What are the biggest issues facing Austin today? The most common answers to that question are transportation and affordability. Well, Prop 1 affects both of them. Which means that this is the big one. This is the issue of this local election season. So now's the time to...

  Sponsored Post - from NATiVE At NATiVE, our mission is to lead the way to a sustainable future. We are building green homes to last generations, and we want our environment to last at least that long. We’re acutely aware of the rapid growth and diminishing...