Guided Tours in Austin
Self-guided walking and driving tours in Austin, Texas. Tap any tour for the story and where it starts, then follow every stop with maps and audio in the Texas Roam app.
Pioneers & Settlement · Free
Texas Capitol & Congress Avenue
The Main Street of Texas — from the pink dome to the bats under the bridge
Architecture
Old Pecan Street: The Sixth Street Historic District
Victorian storefronts, a livery-stable opera house, and the birth of the party street
Architecture
The Bremond Block & Victorian Austin
One city block, one merchant dynasty, and Austin's finest surviving Victorians
Pioneers & Settlement
Texas State Cemetery: Where Texas Buries Its Own
The Father of Texas, nine governors, and a congresswoman who changed the nation
Pioneers & Settlement
Waterloo: The Birth of the Capital
How a buffalo-hunting camp on the Colorado became the capital of Texas
Haunted
Haunted Austin After Dark
The Driskill's ghost bride, a restless Governor's Mansion, and Oakwood at dusk
Fun Parks
Keep Austin Weird: Moonlight Towers & Roadside Curiosities
The 1890s "artificial moonlight" and the murals that keep the city strange
Live Music
The Live Music Capital
Austin's greatest music rooms, from the blues to the honky-tonk to Willie
Architecture
Literary Austin: A City of Writers
The capital's bookish heritage, from O. Henry to the Ransom Center
Civil Rights
Separate and Unequal: East Austin's Civil-Rights & Education Trail
From Tillotson's classrooms to the fall of Jim Crow schools
Pioneers & Settlement
Silicon Hills: How Austin Became a Tech Capital
The people and places behind Austin's tech boom
Fun Parks
Barton Springs & Zilker: Austin's Front Yard
The spring-fed pools and parkland that made Austin fall in love with itself
Civil Rights
Freedom Colony: The Churches of Emancipation
The congregations freedpeople built the moment they were free
Architecture
Great Museums of the University
A museum hop across the Forty Acres
Live Music
Sixth & Red River: The Downtown Club Crawl
Austin's two live-music districts, on foot
Fun Parks
South Congress: Keep Austin Weird
A walk down SoCo's neon, boots, and rockabilly strip
Food & Drink
The Austin Plate: BBQ, Tex-Mex & the Breakfast Taco
A drive through the family kitchens that built Austin's food reputation
Civil Rights
The Victory Grill & the Sound of Black Austin
Blues on the Chitlin' Circuit and the culture of East 11th
Food & Drink
Trucks, Tacos & Icehouses: The Modern Austin Table
How trailers, taquerias and beer gardens built the casual side of a food town
Comedy
Austin Stand-Up: The Comedy Clubs
From Esther's vaudeville to the Mothership — the capital's stand-up corridor
Sports
Fast Cars & Big Leagues: Austin Goes Pro
The stadiums and speedways of a city that finally went major-league
Outlaws & True Crime
Gamblers, Gunmen & Rogues: Old West Austin
When Congress Avenue had faro tables and the city marshal was a gunfighter
Civil Rights
Juneteenth: How Emancipation Came to Austin
From freedom's morning to the city's oldest celebration
Sports
Longhorn Country: UT Sports Legends
The stadiums, the arena, and the track where Texas plays
Civil Rights
Lost Freedmen Towns of Austin
The independent Black villages that ringed the capital after 1865
Pioneers & Settlement
Oakwood: Austin's First City of the Dead
1839 — the capital's oldest ground, from Alamo survivors to segregated sections
Film & TV
Reel Austin: The Film City
How a college town became a movie town — Linklater, Rodriguez, and the studios in a hangar
Live Music
South Austin Honky-Tonks: SoCo & South Lamar
Dance halls, songwriter rooms, and the cosmic-cowboy soul of South Austin
Civil Rights
Tejano East Austin: From Parque Zaragoza to the Camposantos
The Mexican American community that segregation built — and the culture it kept alive
Architecture
The Capitol & Museum Row
Texas history along Congress Avenue's north end
Architecture
The Forty Acres
A walk across the heart of the University of Texas
Pioneers & Settlement
West of Congress: Clarksville, Treaty Oak & the River Bluffs
The freedman's village, a 500-year-old oak, and Austin's oldest swimming hole
Architecture
Elisabet Ney and the Sculptors of Austin
The German artist who carved Texas's founders
Presidents
LBJ's Austin
The 36th president, Lady Bird, and the city they shaped
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Follow every one of these tours stop by stop with maps and audio narration — plus all the hiking trails and historical markers near you.
