Start with a trailhead
The city’s Barton Creek Greenbelt guide lists distinct access points along the main trail. Its trailhead map helps separate a short outing from a longer route across the greenbelt.[1]
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Barton Hills is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas boundary dataset. The saved source records its planning status as suspended. These mapped categories differ from colloquial neighborhood names. Districts people name in conversation, like South Congress, Rainey Street or the Sixth Street entertainment district, are not separate areas in this dataset; they sit inside a planning area or straddle two. This boundary is a single polygon in the city's file, and the city last modified it on . The dataset stores the name as BARTON HILLS.
Barton Creek gives this part of Austin its outdoor rhythm: limestone terrain, a network of trailheads and a regional trail still taking shape. Choose a specific access point and route before setting out; the greenbelt extends far beyond any one neighborhood boundary.
3 linked sources · CheckedThe city’s Barton Creek Greenbelt guide lists distinct access points along the main trail. Its trailhead map helps separate a short outing from a longer route across the greenbelt.[1]
The city identifies limestone cliffs and habitat for protected species along Barton Creek. Treat the creek corridor as a natural landscape, with conditions that differ from a paved neighborhood walking loop.[1]
The Violet Crown Trail begins at Zilker’s greenbelt entrance. The city describes both completed sections and work extending toward Hays County; the full proposed route should not be read as one finished trail.[3]
No. The city’s project page distinguishes open trailheads from extensions under construction. Check the current segment information before planning a continuous trip.[3]
The city identifies its beginning at the Barton Creek Greenbelt entrance at Zilker Park. The regional route extends beyond Barton Hills.[3]
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Boundary drawn from City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas, as last modified September 22, 2021. Markers are placed from geocoded street addresses, so a record whose address we cannot geocode is listed below but not pinned. The panels under the map are the full text equivalent.
The 25 most recently issued inside this boundary (page limit 25)
Austin Public Health · up to 15 most recent inside this boundary
Texas Dept. of Licensing & Regulation filings · up to 15 inside this boundary
Texas Comptroller mixed-beverage filers we placed inside this boundary
We hold geocoded coordinates for none of the 100 filers in ZIP 78704, 78701, 78703, 78745, 78746 that would place them inside this boundary. Placement uses our address cache, so this is a gap in our data, not a claim that Barton Hills has no bars.
Barton Hills is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin neighborhood-planning boundary dataset. Its status in the saved source is suspended. Inclusion in this file does not by itself mean a neighborhood plan was adopted. Well-known districts such as South Congress, Rainey Street and the Sixth Street entertainment district are not separate areas in this dataset; they sit inside a planning area, or straddle two. The Barton Hills boundary is a single polygon in the source file. The city last modified it on September 22, 2021.
City of Austin Development Services has issued 6,538 building permits that it has geocoded inside the Barton Hills planning-area boundary, the earliest dated February 1, 1978 and the most recent September 30, 2026, for a combined declared construction value of $520,224,382. Declared value is the figure the applicant put on the permit application, not market value or finished cost. Counted from the city's Issued Construction Permits dataset (3syk-w9eu), building permits only, over every issue date in that dataset. The boundary test needs a mapped coordinate, and about one building permit in seven (13.8% as published on 2026-07-26) carries no location, so those rows cannot be placed in any neighbourhood and are not in this figure.
No ZIP code centroid falls inside the Barton Hills boundary, so we search the 5 nearest instead: 78704, 78701, 78703, 78745, 78746. We match ZIP codes to planning areas by testing each ZIP's centroid against the boundary polygon, so a large ZIP can overlap an area without its centre landing inside it. Use the boundary, not the ZIP, as the authority.