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Covert Park at Mount Bonnell
3800 Mt Bonnell Rd, Austin, TX
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Hours | Daily 5am-10pm | |
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Transportation | Take Mt. Bonnell Rd. 1 mile past the west end of W. 35th St | |
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Phone | No phone | |
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Prices | Free admission | |
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For the best views of the city, Lake Austin, and some of the Hill Country stretching out westward, take a drive up to this hilltop park. It's 785 feet tall and the highest point in Austin. The oldest tourist attraction in town, it has also long been a favorite spot for romantic trysts, and rumor has it that any couple who climbed the 106 stone steps to the top together would fall in love (an emotion often confused with exhaustion). The peak was named for George W. Bonnell, Sam Houston's commissioner of Indian affairs in 1836, while the far-from-secret park at the summit gets its moniker from Frank M. Covert, Jr., who donated the land to the city in 1939.
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