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Looking for things to do in Austin with kids? The Scary Mommy Travel Guide was created because there is nobody better to help you survive traveling to a unfamiliar destination than a mom who lives there. Read the ever growing guide here, or submit your own hometown!
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1. Safari Champ. This is a hidden gem in the suburbs of Round Rock but is ideal for the mommy blogger. I mean kids of mommy bloggers, of course. A huge, crazy-fun indoor playscape for them, and tasty caffinated beverages and free WiFi for you. You may never leave.
2. Ice cream on the cows at Amy’s Ice Cream at the Arboretum. Is there anything more awesome than sitting on a lifesize stone cow and eating the magical frozen fruits of their udders? I think not.
3. Zilker Park. Free, unless you have to pay a couple bucks to park, and hours of fun. You can play on all the playscapes, feed the ducks, splash in the creek, ride the train – plan at least a whole morning or an entire afternoon – an hour won’t be enough.
4. Austin Children’s Museum. It’s really just flippin’ fun – for everybody. It’s one of those “Get out of the way, kid, and let mommy play” kind of places. You’ll love it, too.
5. Camp Mabry. Closed army base with a museum, big grounds to run around on, and lots of cool weaponry for the kids to play with.
6. Boggy Creek Farm. Pick your own fruits and veggies. Fun, educational AND nutritious! Win for everyone.
7. One of the 4 Food Trailer Parks for Lunch. They’re usually cheap, there’s something to please everybody, and there’s plenty of room to run around and get the crazies out.
8. Visit the giant downtown Farmer’s Market on Saturday. It’s huge and well priced and there’s lots of strange dogs to pet and new foods to try – open year round, rain or shine!
9. Texas State Capitol. It’s cheesy and “touristy” but it’s really gorgeous and fun – and can be educational, but doesn’t have to be. Take your time and poke around, it’s very accessible!
10. The Drag. A popular section of Guadalupe, a street near the University of Texas campus, it’s full of trendy shops, an open air market, cool divey restaurants, college kids and weird “Drag rat” kids who attempt to look homeless before going home to their suburban mommies and daddies.
Got any other tips for getting the most out of Austin with kids? Leave them in the comments!
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Love Austin! And while so much of my time there is spent as a grown up without kids there are so many fun things to do with the little people! Mine love to see the bats under the bridge and yes, they are big fans of walks around parts of the lake.
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I was raised in N. Austin and all of my family is still there so we often travel back to visit. Last time we where there we hit up S. Congress and went to the food trucks and shops. You definitely hit the highlights!! And for Summer visitors I would add the Quarry Splash Pad in Leander. We got rained out in July (I know, HARD to believe) but it is really fun and only a $1 a kid!
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This is awesome!! I’ve never been to Austin with kids, and all I’ve done there is drink, go to football games and go to concerts! This will come in handy whenever I get down to Texas again!
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Oh Austin. The farm sounds great! Austin is the only place in Texas I would remotely consider living, because it is full of awesomeness. This is coming from a New Yorker.
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Amazing especially the ice cream.It will surely make it less scary!
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We LOVE Austin! It is a relatively short drive from the DFW area for a get-away and it is beautiful! I love to watch the rowing teams on the river in the morning! You can fish, walk around downtown for hours and shop – they have really cool vintage stores!
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Austin is on my to do list Great to find out the most fun things to do from a true native Evin!
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Wow, wonderful blog layout! How long have you been blogging for?
you make blogging look easy. The overall look of your site is
wonderful, as well as the content!
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Whenever we travel, I always make sure to load up my kids iPod with audio books. I downloaded some great short stories for kids for free at this stie. http://www.twirlygirlshop.com/stories-for-kids I hope it’s ok to post that. Just had to share.