Govalle Neighborhood Park — Attraction in Austin

I absolutely love this place. Been coming for years even before the update. The pool upgrades have been great. Disappointing how the female lifeguards have little patience and were constantly making rude faces as I was trying to clean up my kids. The male lifeguard was very polite and said the pool closes at 7 but there's no rush. You can still use the showers and bathrooms to clean up. But as soon as we were in the bathroom we kept getting rude faces from the female staff. Even spraying cleaning chemicals around us. I was very vocal with my children to hurry because they wanted to leave and all I got was eye rolls from the lifeguard till another one came to also hurry us out. I told her we were trying to go as fast as we could cause some of my children were special needs but was met with another eye roll instead of some sort of understanding or compassion. Next time I won't be so nice to hurry my children with such...

This park is great for just about anyone : walkers, runners, skaters, basketball players, cyclists, families and pets!

I also come here to have picnic or do yoga. My puppy love to come and walk and meet new friends. Everyone keeps their pups on a leash while walking the trail, but also allow them to mingle in open area unleashed. The park never feels overcrowded and the trail is about 10miles and easy to navigate.

The parking on a Weekend can get a bit tricky, but you should be fine in every season, besides late summer. I’m not sure what it would look like when the new apartment complex start leasing.

I have never used the pool, but I see families in it during the summer. Overall great park all...

The start of the Southern Walnut Creek Trail! This trail is an amazing mostly-paved trail that leads for several miles across East Austin all the way to Decker Lake. Govalle Park, the southern terminus, is a small but nice park on the east side of Austin. Fortunately it offers a fair amount of parking as the hike and bike trail is quite popular on weekends. The buildings and grounds seem well-maintained. But please, reopen the bathrooms! A porta potti is certainly not safer with regard to covid than a real bathroom. I have not used the swimming pool here but it I’m sure it offers a welcome break from Texas heat in the summer. Austin really does a great job of providing parks, trails, and...