Here's a Sneak Peek of the Lady Bird Lake Boardwalk (Austin)

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The boardwalk provides some new views of downtown from near water level.


Sections of the boardwalk are built over land and surrounded by trees.

The Lady Bird Lake Boardwalk is set to open to the public on June 7.

The 1.3 mile boardwalk will complete a ten-mile loop of trail around the lake. Howard Lazarus with Austin’s Public Works Department says the boardwalk will play a key role in expanding biking and pedestrian options throughout the region.

“We have work over on the Southern Walnut Creek trail which ties into the Lance Armstrong Bikeway, so you’ll be able to see opportunities to get around that will, over the next couple of years, take you from all the way up near Manor down through the center part of the city, down to Oak Hill [and] Circle C,” Lazarus says.

He puts the total price tag of the boardwalk at around $27 million. Much of that came from a 2010 transportation bond with additional funding from Austin’s Trail Foundation and others.

More to the story and additional photos at http://kut.org/post/photos-heres-sneak-peek-lady-bird-lake-boardwalk .

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1. So glad to see this new walkway - since I've moved from Austin, hadn't seen it.

The trails around the lake are already legendarily beautiful, and this new part just adds to the convenience and beauty of them.