Balcones Park & Pool

Let’s celebrate summer, our pool & great neighbors at Balcones’ Potluck Pool Party
Saturday, May 31 from 2 to 4pm at Balcones Pool, 12017 Amherst Dr, Austin, TX 78759.

We welcome everyone to bring a main dish, side or dessert to help us make this a complete community gathering!  Please bring your own water bottles or drinks of choice (no glass).

Please RSVP HERE so we can plan accordingly.

Admission to Balcones Pool is ALWAYS FREE to all!

Please note that we will reschedule in the event of rain so check back or expect an email to the address you RSVPed with.

So come on out, bring a dish, meet your fellow neighbors, make friends with your soon to be swim team and swim lesson mates!

Swim Lesson Registration for Balcones Pool is ALSO Open! The Swim Lessons are in 2 week groups on every Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri for 30 minutes and only $57! Then you can stay and practice what you learn before and after! A great way to get your kids swimming!

And Balcones Barracudas Swim Team is a GREAT way to help become a proficient swimmer, all you have to do to join is be able to get across the pool, it doesn’t have to look good. Only $80 for the summer. Very relaxed and fun!

https://www.austintexas.gov/swimming

To Register go to & choose the Aquatics box in the first row of pics: https://web2.vermontsystems.com/wbwsc/txaustinwt.ws

We succeeded in raising almost $600 for the Park while also diverting 3 carloads, 1 large trailer and 1 van of styrofoam
plus almost 2 tons of oil, paint, batteries, etc!

Thank you to Karl Hanson with H&H Design and Build for sponsoring this event & providing the manpower, trailer & van!

Thanks also to our neighbor volunteers: Carolyn, Will, Dale, Bethany, Michael, Matt, Ashley, Cameron, Donna, Andy, Max, William, Sam, Meg, and more! And especially Bill who stepped in last minute to bring a large trailer to transport a FULL load of Styrofoam!

Start gathering those dead batteries, used oil and oil filters, leftover latex paint cans, and antifreeze PLUS clean/dry styrofoam and plastic film!

Because Milwood Neighborhood Association will be collecting Batteries, Oil, Latex Paint, Antifreeze, Styrofoam and Plastic Film on Saturday, May 17th, 2025 from 8:30-9:30am at St. Stephens Baptist Church (Cassady/Amherst/Brigadoon) at the back parking lot.

We must close at 9:30am or earlier if we fill up to be able to get the materials to the City site and unloaded there in time to meet our scheduled drop off time.

We need volunteers to pull this event off, please consider donating an hour or two of your time: Sign up HERE

Click HERE for the rest of the details.

A Big Thanks to the Scout Troop 421 and Pack 90 for their wonderful job cleaning up the trail!  They collected more than 600 gallons of trash on Saturday and made a huge difference in the appearance of our park’s trail!

Thanks to Miles Schulze, Beverly Schulze and Erik Harris for the leadership on this too!

Hi all, we are in need of a few volunteers to cleanup the greenbelt in 2 areas – just west of Mopac along the Northern Walnut Creek Trail and east of Mopac along the creek. We made a good start on the first area during Its My Park Day, but there are a couple of pockets we missed. Here’s the signup link if you’re interested. https://givepul.se/oylhrr

Thanks, Erik Harris

PS: Keep Austin Beautiful is sponsoring this event.

The Basketball Court at Balcones Park is up and running with new surfacing, new shorter baskets to accommodate kids, pickleball lining, four square AND lights on a timer. The lights do shut off at the park’s curfew of 10pm regardless of the timer. (We beg of everyone PLEASE don’t dunk on the goals or they won’t last long!)

It has been so great to see the increase in use since the amenities have been updated! A BIG Thanks to PARD for making this happen for our park!

Join neighbors and fellow park lovers to clean up and care for Balcones Park! There will be projects for all ages including:

Sign up here – Balcones Spring Clean

If you would like to help lead a work group, please let us know!

Please save the date to help clean up and care for Balcones Park.  There will be projects for all ages including:

Sign up link – https://givepul.se/urgbwl

If you would like to help lead a work group, please let us know!

Thank you to Karl Hanson with H&H Design & Build, Inc & all the volunteers for another successful BOPAS Collection Event!

We helped nearly 100 neighborhood families correctly dispose of their batteries, oil, paint, antifreeze, and styrofoam (BOPAS) with our event! All told, the collection filled a large trailer, plus three large vehicles! All the materials were dropped off at Austin Resource Recovery where they were disposed of properly.

The event this year was VERY heavy on styrofoam. Karl saved us by being willing to strap much of it down into his trailer bed. In addition, Matt Mitchell was a huge help with jumping in to help drive another car full of foam to the drop-off point..

Thanks to all of our other wonderful volunteers at the event: Michael Lewis, Carolyn Scherrer, Sharon Reed, Dale Butler, Bethany Metzger, Andy Davis, Max Davis, Sam Davis, William Davis, and Tanner Callais!

A special thanks to our event sponsor & neighbor, Karl Hanson with H&H Design and Build, Inc for making this event possible!

Start gathering those dead batteries, used oil and oil filters, leftover latex paint cans, and antifreeze PLUS clean/dry styrofoam and plastic film!

Because Milwood Neighborhood Association will be collecting Batteries, Oil, Latex Paint, Antifreeze, Styrofoam and Plastic Film on Saturday, April 13th, 2024 from 8:30-9:30am to St. Stephen’s Baptist Church.

We must close at 9:30am or earlier if we fill up to be able to get the materials to the City site and unloaded there in time to meet our scheduled drop off time.

Click HERE for the rest of the details.