Park
Emma Long Metropolitan Park
Lakeside park with a swimming beach, campgrounds, boat ramp, and wooded hiking and biking trails.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Emma Long Metropolitan Park in Austin traces its swimming beach back to nineteen thirty-nine, when a Civilian Conservation Corps crew built the original City Park by hand. It follows what became of their proudest structure, and how the grounds came to carry the name of Emma Long, Austin's first woman city council member and later its first female mayor pro tem. You will hear why the stone bathhouse you can walk into today is not the one the corps built.
This audio guide was created using AI.