Garrison District Park

love this place. been coming here ever since i was a little kid. lot off trees. bar bee que grills and squirrels for my puppy to chase

One of the only shaded park in South Austin. You can spend a few hours here because there are picnic tables, trees, play structure and a pool! The bathrooms are also clean. HOWEVER if you come in summer, expect there to be LOTS of kids. Summer Camps come and spend most of the day. It tends to be crowded.

We were here this weekend for a party and long story short I like this park. It has a lot of tree cover which is very important on a warm sunny day. It was well maintained, clean and it seemed like our group was the only ones there. The combination of small shaded fields, open space and trees to hide behind were great for the kids playing laser tag and hide and seek. They also had quite a few picnic tables which allowed everyone to have a place for sitting and eating if they didn’t want to spread out on the grass.

This park is awesome! I stopped here with my family one afternoon to let my little nephew burn off some energy and get some play time in. This was the perfect spot just for that.
I love the tall trees that surround the area. I can imagine in the summer time it makes for a decent cooler place for kids to hang out and play. Now the playground was perfect too. The jungle gym part was great for kids of all ages and sizes. There was a smaller one for the little tykes too. I also like that there were two sets of swings; the ones that anyone can sit in and the ones that are for little kids to put their feet through. My 3.5 year old nephew was able to swing on the big swing and play on the big jungle gym without any issues.
Another thing I noticed was that there were plenty of benches throughout the park and in the middle of everything for parents to sit on and be close to what was going on. I have been to other parks where there might be one bench and it is located where you can not see everything that is happening. Loved the way this was all laid out.
There were also restrooms close by, a pool and a basketball court. There were walking paths throughout as well.
I am so happy we discovered this little park. You probably have driven by it tons as it is right off of Manchaca Rd. I definitely recommend it if you are looking to let the kids get out and play or if you need to get some exercise in.

This park is fan-​friggin-​tastic!
We came here with our dog, Walter Kronkite, a couple weeks ago for his 2^nd dog training lesson. And just like some of the other reviewers, the park is clean, quite large and has tons of live oaks for shade.
They really do well with the up keep and I will return here to train Walter as much as I can.
Really quite a beautiful park!

I absolutely love this park! It’s big, clean and shaded. What else could you ask for? There’s always birthday parties and bbq’s going on, when there isn’t a drought.
The pool is also very nice. Never too crowded, and the staff was very fun and attentive. One of my favorite parks in Austin.

What is left to say about Garrison Park, that hasn’t already been said?
I happened to visit here during the school year, while on a field trip, with my kindergartner.
Any place that can occupy (5) different classes of young children is winner in my book. There’s a ramp that is genuinely handy if you have a toddler who thinks he’s Spiderman and tries to climb the school-​age playground without avail.
The playground itself big – entertaining, and thankfully it’s actually covered by a mass amount of trees, so slipping down the slide doesn’t give your tot 2^nd degree burns in this Texas heat.
There happens to be standing bathrooms, bbq grills, plenty of picnic tables for a family outing, nice room to roam, and hello… a trail – perfect for biking, walking or whatever you desire. And there happens to be a pool! Check-​it-​out!

I go walking here, Sometimes take the kiddos for a stroll.
Don’t go too too early you may run into a bum sleeping or whatever. but this is Austin they are everywhere anyway.
Nice shaded area, when the pool is open it can get packed of course.
Restrooms are your average park/​public restroom. Gross.

This is a great park for the kiddos. My daughter loves the slides, swings, and the big ramp on the main playset — which is relatively low and safe for the little ones. There’s nice wooded areas for us to explore when she gets tired of swinging, and a random cannon that the kids can never seem to get enough of. We don’t live super close by, but end up going at least a couple times a month to meet up with other moms and kids.

I had the most unpleasant reason for visiting this park this evening — my electricity had been out for 2 hours and it was actually getting cooler outside with a breeze than inside my house if you can imagine that my car thermometer read 98. Since this was the only park in the area that I had yet to visit I headed over with my dog and camera to check it out. It is a nice park with many amenities I just would not suggest it as a safe place for a woman to walk alone at dusk since it is so heavily wooded.
I was able to explore and take some pictures before it got too dark. I counted 25 BBQ Pits next to as many picnic tables and 1 very long communal table, a covered pavilion with lots of seating that is reservable, 3 baseball fields, 2 basketball courts and a pool area with 2 separate pools.
When I first arrived at 8PM there were a couple people BBQing, a group sketching a woman, basketball court full of guys and a pool full of families with kids.
As I mentioned before the park is very heavily wooded which keeps it cool but can get creepy when it starts getting dark. I would recommend it for any family in the area for the pool alone. I do not live that close so I probably will not be back but if I did live close my dog and I would be here a lot for daily walks in the shade.