Since the 1990s, the south side of Duncan Park has been used as a BMX bicycle jumping/trail spot. It has been hand built by the local riders with very minimal involvement from the City of Austin and absolutely zero compensation.
© OpenStreetMap contributors
House Park Skatepark
A 30,000-square-foot public, concrete skate park next to the ACC Rio Grande Campus.
Austin Museum of Art
Reflecting the unconventional spirit of Austin, AMOA-Downtown offers informative and informal art experiences oriented towards the interests of a broad general audience. The galleries serve as the Museum's primary exhibition site and present continually changing exhibitions and education programs that showcase an array of twentieth-century and contemporary art. To complement the art on view, the Museum presents a broad range of accessible, interdisciplinary, and hands-on public education programs for school children, families and adults. AMOA-Downtown also features the Community Room, a place for activities and private functions with gallery access.
Stateside at the Paramount
Feature a wide variety of plays and acts, from Broadway touring shows to Chinese acrobats to plays and unique dance companies.
The venerable PBS show was filmed at Studio 6A in the Communications Building B at the University of Texas from 1976 to 2010. In February 2011, it moved to the Moody Theater at 310 Willie Nelson Blvd in Downtown Austin.
Managed by the Austin Improv Collective. You can always find improv comedy there.