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Barton Springs, Austin, TX

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Description

Giant pool of clear water, limestone perk, 64,000 gallon daily flow.

Nearest Address

Zilker Park, Austin

Directions from Nearest Address

Giant pool of clear water, limestone perk, 64,000 gallon daily flow.

Vital Information

  • Fee: Last checked was $6 daily pass.
  • Access: Public
  • Flow: Continuous
  • TDS: N/A
  • Temp: 68° F
  • pH: N/A

Hours Spring is Open:

Dawn to dusk most days.

GPS: N/A

Map Link: Barton Springs Map

Submitted by: Mac

Category : Texas / USA
  • Avocadess

    GREAT for swimming — not for drinking! Part of the problem we have here in Central Texas is a LOT of limestone (which equals BAD CALCIUM in the water)…!

  • TexasBoy

    You are right. Limestone is the signature feature all through the Hill Country. That is why the spring water is there in the first place.

    As you say, it is a swimming pool, not a drinking-type spring. It was dammed in the 1920′s to make a deeper pool.

    Folks might want to know that there might sometimes be some nude sunbathing in that vicinity and has been a “hippy hangout”for many years. Some families might not like all that.

  • Ryan

    Where do you guys get your water in Austin?

  • Emmylouwho

    We use the municipal water supply but we filter our water with a Berkey water filter..Its hands down the BEST water filtration system…. We have saved soo much money switching from bottled water to the Berkey…Not to mention the thousands of bottles we have saved from being dumped in the landfill!

  • Dsrajer8

    I live in Austin where the Barton Springs are located. It is great to swim but don’t think you are able to fill up a container with the spring water. It just bubbles up directly into the natural pool that is made of damming the Barton creek. The creek itself is polluted with the runoff from paving on surrounding hills when it rains. The fee is $3 not $6 in summer, free in winter. Some people swim year round, the temp. stays F68 year round as well.
    I am still in shock learning that It is not to my benefit to use my water ionizer that I bought specifically to try and alkalize my body in fight with cancer. It has a supposedly good filtration system filtering to 0.01 microns. Perhaps I will just use that and not the alkalizing feature.

  • Mboniface75

    AKA ” Hippie Holler “

  • Ca

    Yes, I agree about Berkey which our family also use. We live out near Lockhart.

  • Ca

    I also am dealing with cancer. We use the Berkey filtration system and also an under the sink filtration system, plus a filter on our fawcett and shower.

  • Lynn

    Does anyone know of a spring anywhere in the area that we could fill from???

  • JasonQA

    We’ve bio-energetically tested Berkey filtered water. It tests poorly for “compatibility with the complex 4 polarities of human bio-energetics”. This may be due in part to the synthetically produced plastic vessel it uses.

  • Eoes

    I am sure the water at Barton Springs is good to use. If your concerned just filter the barton springs water through a Berkey Gravity filter using the black berkey filter.

  • Eoes

    It would be better to use the Barton Springs water with the Berkey gravity water filter. The municipal water is too contaminated to deal with.

  • Melanie

    Not to interfere, however PLEASE check into Baking Powder for keeping your entire body in an Alkaline State. It DOES work, I’ve seen it myself. GOD BLESS!!

  • Matthewwduplichan

    so is there no where to bottle your own water in austin??