A boardwalk within a larger trail
The Trail Conservancy identifies the Boardwalk as a roughly 1.3-mile stretch of the Ann and Roy Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail, used by pedestrians and cyclists.[1]
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Riverside is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas boundary dataset. The saved source records its planning status as plan approved. 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, with ordinance 20061116-055 recorded in the source, and the city last modified it on . The dataset stores the name as RIVERSIDE.
The Boardwalk offers a distinctive stretch of the Butler Trail along Lady Bird Lake. Its access points and viewing areas make it possible to plan a focused outing without committing to the full loop around the lake.
2 linked sources · CheckedThe Trail Conservancy identifies the Boardwalk as a roughly 1.3-mile stretch of the Ann and Roy Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail, used by pedestrians and cyclists.[1]
The conservancy lists entrances at East Bouldin Creek, Blunn Creek on East Riverside Drive, the I-35 frontage-road corner and International Shores on South Lakeshore Boulevard.[1]
The conservancy provides standard and accessible trail maps, along with information about amenities and parking. Use the map suited to the trip you want.[2]
No. The conservancy lists multiple Boardwalk entrances, allowing a visit to that section without completing the lake loop.[1]
The Trail Conservancy’s Maps & Parking page links an accessible trail map and other route resources. Use those details for your specific access needs.[2]
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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
3 of 100 filers in ZIP 78741, 78702, 78701, 78704, 78744 placed inside this boundary. Each venue’s figure is its own gross receipts over its own filing months — there is deliberately no area total, because this is a sample, not a census.
Riverside is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin neighborhood-planning boundary dataset. Its status in the saved source is plan approved. 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 Riverside boundary is a single polygon in the source file. The city last modified it on September 22, 2021.
City of Austin ordinance number 20061116-055 is recorded against this planning area in the city's Neighborhood Planning Areas dataset, with planning status plan approved.
City of Austin Development Services has issued 2,871 building permits that it has geocoded inside the Riverside planning-area boundary, the earliest dated March 21, 1979 and the most recent September 11, 2026, for a combined declared construction value of $2,241,864,743. 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 Riverside boundary, so we search the 5 nearest instead: 78741, 78702, 78701, 78704, 78744. 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.