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Lake Travis is well known for its outdoor recreation opportunities, including fishing, boating, swimming, scuba diving, picnicking, camping, and zip lining. [13] Hippie Hollow Park, located near the eastern end of Lake Travis, is the only legal clothing optional park in Texas. Lake Travis is generally considered one of the clearest lakes in Texas.
The Oasis on Lake Travis is a restaurant on the western edge of Austin, Texas, United States. [2] Established in 1982, the restaurant promotes itself as the "Sunset Capital of Texas" with its terraced views looking west over Lake Travis. [3] It is one of the largest restaurants in the world and serves American and Tex-Mex cuisine.
Lake Travis High School is a public high school located in unincorporated Travis County, Texas, United States, approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of Austin, near Lake Travis. The preparatory is accredited by the Texas Education Agency and rated as an exemplary secondary by TEA standards. [ 2 ]
Hippie Hollow Park has been used as a nude swimming spot for years, because the area was along a particularly remote section of the shoreline of Lake Travis. The area became more popular in the 1960s due to the cultural changes of that era and, after Woodstock, the nickname 'Hippie Hollow' was born.
Lake Travis Independent School District is a public school district headquartered in Austin, Texas, . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was created on June 12, 1981, after school board members decided to split the Dripping Springs Independent School District in order to handle the growing population of the Lake Travis area.
The river is an important source of water for farming, cities, and electrical power production. Major man-made reservoirs on the river include Lake Buchanan, Inks Lake, Lake LBJ, Lake Marble Falls, Lake Travis, Lake Austin, Town Lake now called Lady Bird Lake in Austin. Collectively, these lakes are known as the Highland Lakes.
Lago Vista, Texas ("Lake View" in English) is a lakeside community located on the northern shores of Lake Travis. The city is located within Travis County, Texas, United States, and is less than 20 miles from downtown Austin. Much of Lago Vista is located on a peninsula that extends across 15.52 square miles of Texas Hill Country.
Lake Travis is located near Hudson Bend. Hudson Bend is located 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Austin on Lake Travis. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 6.7 square miles (17.3 km 2), of which 4.0 square miles (10.3 km 2) is land and 2.7 square miles (7.0 km 2) (40.27%) is water.