All Blog Austin’s Ann and Roy Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail Transformed: TEMPO Project Announces Selected Artists Austin, TX – Tuesday, January 30, 2024 – The Trail Conservancy, in collaboration with the City of Austin Economic Development Department’s Art in Public Places Program (AIPP), is pleased to announce the artists selected to participate...
For Immediate Release: Media Contact Megan Paul megan@gwpr.com 646.943.4600 The Trail Conservancy Announces Leadership Change Celebrating Heidi Anderson’s Tenure AUSTIN, TEXAS – November 2, 2023 – The Trail Conservancy (TTC) announced today that Heidi Anderson will step down as Chief Executive Officer of the organization at the end of December...
As a part of the launch of The Trail Conservancy’s Arts + Culture plan in May of 2023, TTC teamed up with local art collective dadaLab to create a site-specific laser installation, The Current Underneath. The piece was installed inside the former water intake facility of the Seaholm Power Plant, future site of the Seaholm Waterfront...
Arts + Culture Plan In 2022, The Trail Conservancy (TTC) partnered with the Austin Parks and Recreation Department (PARD) and the City of Austin Art in Public Places (AIPP) program to create an Arts + Culture Plan for the Butler Trail that would contribute to the space and elevate the user experience, while not overwhelming, […]
We’re giving away a pair of 3-day (sold out) VIP passes to a lucky set of Trail users this year. Follow @ACLfestival and @TheTrailConservancy on Instagram or Facebook and tag your favorite Trail buddy who you’d like to go to ACL with this year for a chance to win these 2 VIP passes plus a […]
Michael Barnes Austin American-Statesman Returning the trail around Lady Bird Lake, one of Austin’s defining features, back to its grassroots origins, the city’s parks and recreation department has conferred primary stewardship of the Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail to a newly renamed nonprofit, the Trail Conservancy. Created as the...
Published by KUTX By Mose Buchele Published September 14, 2022 at 4:07 PM CDT The City of Austin has officially opened a new section of the hike and bike trail along Lady Bird Lake. The quarter-mile stretch of trail connects what officials said was the last remaining gap in the 10-mile lakeside loop. Before Wednesday, […]
Hi TTF Community! My name is Anna, and I am an Ambassador Girl Scout in 12th grade working on my Gold Award! The Gold Award is the highest achievement within the Girl Scouts of USA and is essentially a service project in which a girl scout strives to help solve an issue near and dear […]
Eric and Maria Groten would not be sharing a last name, four kids, and their last 23 years together if not for the Butler Trail. Their first meeting happened in the wake of Eric’s loss of his twin brother, Kurt, who died along with his three young children in a fiery crash with an 18-wheeler. […]
VIEW THE FULL REPORT The Butler Trail Urban Forestry and Ecological Restoration work has elevated the ecological function and user enjoyment of the 200+ acres of riparian forest and parklands around the Butler Trail at Lady Bird Lake. The Trail and the broader Austin urban area will continue to benefit from this ongoing work. […]
Kids on Bikes in Parks is a free cycling event presented by Violet Crown, The LeadOut Foundation, and The Trail Conservancy. We have a closed course of 1000 ft of grassy parkland for children ages 5-15 to ride their bikes on. We will have open track time with experienced cyclists present to teach lessons and at the top of every hour, we will have timed laps for kids to test themselves and track their progress.
Location: 1920 E Riverside Drive, Suite A-120 PMB 223 Austin, TX 78741
Phone: 1-855-44-TRAIL
The Trail Conservancy is a non-profit, tax-exempt charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Tax ID: 87-0699956.
Join us for the 20th Annual Maudie’s Moonlight Margarita 5K Fun Run on Thursday, June 8, 2023.
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