Today, we are attending the groundbreaking for the new Butler Rough Hollow Park in Lakeway.
The new park will include an amphitheater featuring limestone-block seating built into the hillside, facing a concrete stage area. Other features include a mountain bike course, bank-shot play court, multisport field, playground, ninja course, pavilion, restroom facilities, picnic tables, and benches.
A backstop and fence, baseball bases, portable benches, and portable soccer goals will be installed in the multisports field. The playground will include integrated shade, roller slides, swings, and multiple play levels for all ages. We are catered by Jefferys of Austin, and our entertainment is Spanky and Our Gang.
Menu
Veal medallions américaine – crawfish in sauce américaine fava beans, lardo & onion soubise
Roast guinea fowl – truffle mousseline, morel mushrooms, fiddlehead fern & buttered herb jus
Long Island Duck breast – sweet red California cherries, hakurei turnips, Moroccan spiced sauce
Alaskan halibut – spring ramp nage, beech mushrooms, caviar, crème fraîche
Red snapper â la barigoule – chorizo-encrusted snapper, poached fennel & spring vegetables
Roasted turnip – wood roasted turnip, kale furikake, carrot ginger-miso broth
16 oz Colorado rack of lamb, served with mint jelly
16 oz tomahawk pork chop, served with truffle butter
Let’s go
The welcome tent.
Visitors to the event can take a sapling home.
Cookies and water.
The shovels are waiting for the official moment. The big guy on the right has the day off.
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Good attendance.
The gang of seven. From left, Parks and Recreation Director Andrea Bennett, City Manager Joseph Molis, City Council Member Kent O’ Brian, Mayor Tom Kilgore, Forester Richard Leon, Council member Wes Hook, Assistant Director Parks and Recreation Ricky Gavett.
The ground is broken.
The map of the finished park in the summer of 2027.
We have our red oak tree, and now it is time to relax with music and Food. I hope you have a great week.
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This looks brilliant John and I love the fact there will be a ninja course, we are great fans… it sounds like there will be something for everyone… hugsx
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I think so, too. Thanks, Sally.
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How wonderful. This place will be amazing! Perfect song too.
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Thank you, Darlene. It is going to be swell.
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It’s great you will have a new park, John 🌳🌲
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We think so too. Thanks, Robbie.
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John, this is lovely. Thanks for taking us along.
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Cool that you get a sapling. Do you grow it at home and then donate it to the park?
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