Park
Hippie Hollow Park
Steep limestone shoreline on Lake Travis, the only legally clothing-optional public park in Texas.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Hippie Hollow Park in Austin traces how Texas's only clothing-optional public park got that way, starting with a nineteen-seventies sheriff who decided enforcing nudity laws here wasn't worth his deputies' time. It follows the park's formal opening in nineteen eighty-five and the family who challenged a nineteen ninety-five age ordinance through the courts. Listen from the limestone overlook above the water, where the argument over who belongs here has played out for decades.
This audio guide was created using AI.