Austin Texas Real Estate and Neighborhoods

Neighborhoods in Austin Texas - Lake Austin Many people from around the world assume Texas has an awfully dry landscape filled with mesas and endless deserts. It's easy to make that assumption when you look at the way old cowboy movies and stories depict the Alamo, but Texas, the largest state in the continental United States, is anything but stereotypical. It is geographically diverse and in some areas water is actually plentiful. Unlike our worst visions of rolling dunes like that in the extraordinarily desolate Sahara desert, Texas actually has the eighteenth longest river in the United States - the Colorado River.

Both the source and mouth of the Colorado River are located in Texas. Texas cities, farms and electrical power plants are situated along the Colorado River. In fact Austin, the capitol of Texas, thrives on the Colorado River and its many manmade lakes and reservoirs. There are more than a few Neighborhoods in Austin Texas that enjoy the many lakes of Austin.

There are a total of seven lakes in Austin, they are as follows: Lake Marble Falls, Lake Travis, Lake Austin, Lake Buchanan, Town Lake, Lake LBJ and Inks Lake. These lakes are known as the Highland Lakes and are central and essential to life in Austin. Besides the drinking water, recreational activities and gorgeous views the Colorado River also supplies power plants that have fueled Austin's growth into a major metropolitan area.

Mount Bonnell is 780 feet above sea level and is a limestone mountain that overlooks the sublime Lake Austin on the Colorado River. Fine Austin Texas real estate can be seen from this vantage point. Indeed, one realizes from this height, 200 feet above the river, that the Colorado River and its manmade lakes make many areas in Texas quite lush. Austin, in particular, thrives as a green and prolific city. Refresh your mind, body, and soul at the luxiourious Lake Austin Spa Resort, with "the luxury of a world-class spa, the warmth of a best friend's lake house."

Austin's subtropical climate is humid and sometimes extraordinarily warm in summer time but winters are mild and comfortable. In fact, it very rarely ever snows in Austin. However, once every year or so an ice storm hits Austin and shuts down the city because of the mostly icy roads and downed power lines. Most of Austin's precipitation comes in the spring, with some in the fall; overall Austin receives only about 34 inches of rain per year. In the spring time it is not uncommon to witness spectacular and severe thunderstorms and even deadly tornadoes.

Far from being a desolate wilderness isolated from sources of water, Austin Real Estate is actually considered idyllic by millions of American's. In fact, more and more people are discovering that Texas and Austin offer so much more than they ever imagined. With plenty of space, water and other resources, Texas is so much more than we were led to believe by those early films and stories.