Balcones Park & Pool

A HUGE THANK YOU to all our volunteers for their help at Balcones Park’s It’s My Park Day on Sat. Nov. 1, 2025!

A special Thank You to Erik Harris who puts so much energy and time into this event and our park all year!

And big thanks to @LittleFree BakeryATX for keeping us sustained with delicious goodies!

A thanks for all the co-leaders and folks who helped before and after the event, including Austin Parks Foundation, @LittleFreeBakeryATX, Scout Troop 421, Pack 90, & Girl Scouts, Matt M. Ingrid H., Monica H, Celeste B and family, Mary Ann T, and all the volunteers who worked so hard!

Pictures of the event here!

A snapshot of what we accomplished:
-Over 2 miles of trail cleaned up
-7 pounds of Wildflower and native grass seed planted
-40 plus trees mulched
-Tons of trash removed from abandoned campsites
-Nandina shrubs reduced in Northwest corner of Park

We have never pulled out so much trash as this clean up did! We almost completely cleared out one abandoned camp in the park and now only have two more to go!

We are planning a follow up event to finish cleaning the campsite. If anyone wants to help with that, please let us know at: balconespark (a) gmail.com

Volleyball Court has new borders, new sand, new poles and more!

Go out and join a game!

Let’s celebrate summer, our pool & great neighbors at Balcones’ Potluck Pool Party
Saturday, May 31 from 2 to 4pm at Balcones Pool, 12017 Amherst Dr, Austin, TX 78759.

We welcome everyone to bring a main dish, side or dessert to help us make this a complete community gathering!  Please bring your own water bottles or drinks of choice (no glass).

Please RSVP HERE so we can plan accordingly.

Admission to Balcones Pool is ALWAYS FREE to all!

Please note that we will reschedule in the event of rain so check back or expect an email to the address you RSVPed with.

So come on out, bring a dish, meet your fellow neighbors, make friends with your soon to be swim team and swim lesson mates!

Swim Lesson Registration for Balcones Pool is ALSO Open! The Swim Lessons are in 2 week groups on every Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri for 30 minutes and only $57! Then you can stay and practice what you learn before and after! A great way to get your kids swimming!

And Balcones Barracudas Swim Team is a GREAT way to help become a proficient swimmer, all you have to do to join is be able to get across the pool, it doesn’t have to look good. Only $80 for the summer. Very relaxed and fun!

https://www.austintexas.gov/swimming

To Register go to & choose the Aquatics box in the first row of pics: https://web2.vermontsystems.com/wbwsc/txaustinwt.ws

We succeeded in raising almost $600 for the Park while also diverting 3 carloads, 1 large trailer and 1 van of styrofoam
plus almost 2 tons of oil, paint, batteries, etc!

Thank you to Karl Hanson with H&H Design and Build for sponsoring this event & providing the manpower, trailer & van!

Thanks also to our neighbor volunteers: Carolyn, Will, Dale, Bethany, Michael, Matt, Ashley, Cameron, Donna, Andy, Max, William, Sam, Meg, and more! And especially Bill who stepped in last minute to bring a large trailer to transport a FULL load of Styrofoam!

Start gathering those dead batteries, used oil and oil filters, leftover latex paint cans, and antifreeze PLUS clean/dry styrofoam and plastic film!

Because Milwood Neighborhood Association will be collecting Batteries, Oil, Latex Paint, Antifreeze, Styrofoam and Plastic Film on Saturday, May 17th, 2025 from 8:30-9:30am at St. Stephens Baptist Church (Cassady/Amherst/Brigadoon) at the back parking lot.

We must close at 9:30am or earlier if we fill up to be able to get the materials to the City site and unloaded there in time to meet our scheduled drop off time.

We need volunteers to pull this event off, please consider donating an hour or two of your time: Sign up HERE

Click HERE for the rest of the details.

A Big Thanks to the Scout Troop 421 and Pack 90 for their wonderful job cleaning up the trail!  They collected more than 600 gallons of trash on Saturday and made a huge difference in the appearance of our park’s trail!

Thanks to Miles Schulze, Beverly Schulze and Erik Harris for the leadership on this too!

Hi all, we are in need of a few volunteers to cleanup the greenbelt in 2 areas – just west of Mopac along the Northern Walnut Creek Trail and east of Mopac along the creek. We made a good start on the first area during Its My Park Day, but there are a couple of pockets we missed. Here’s the signup link if you’re interested. https://givepul.se/oylhrr

Thanks, Erik Harris

PS: Keep Austin Beautiful is sponsoring this event.

The Basketball Court at Balcones Park is up and running with new surfacing, new shorter baskets to accommodate kids, pickleball lining, four square AND lights on a timer. The lights do shut off at the park’s curfew of 10pm regardless of the timer. (We beg of everyone PLEASE don’t dunk on the goals or they won’t last long!)

It has been so great to see the increase in use since the amenities have been updated! A BIG Thanks to PARD for making this happen for our park!

Join neighbors and fellow park lovers to clean up and care for Balcones Park! There will be projects for all ages including:

Sign up here – Balcones Spring Clean

If you would like to help lead a work group, please let us know!

Please save the date to help clean up and care for Balcones Park.  There will be projects for all ages including:

Sign up link – https://givepul.se/urgbwl

If you would like to help lead a work group, please let us know!