Deep Eddy Pool, Austin: walk Tarrytown from the oldest pool in Texas before a showing

Where do you start a walk through Tarrytown, Austin?

Houses for sale in Tarrytown, Austin, reveal more from a public park than from a driveway, and the City of Austin's park directory gives you five to choose from inside ZIP 78703. Reed Neighborhood Park at 2614 Pecos Street covers 6.369 acres and has a free outdoor pool; Tarrytown Neighborhood Park at 2106 Tower Drive covers 2.2502 acres; Mayfield Park, listed at 23.331 acres on West 35th Street, is open every day from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Lions Municipal Golf Course at 2901 Enfield Road covers 155.62 acres; and the Johnson Creek Greenbelt at 2001 Enfield Road covers 59.47 acres. Eilers Park at 401 Deep Eddy Avenue, 8.2789 acres around Deep Eddy Pool, sits at the neighborhood's southern edge.

Each starting point gives the surrounding streets a different scale. From Reed Park the walk runs through the middle of the neighborhood's residential grid; from Mayfield it starts at a walled garden and a preserve, where the City asks visitors never to approach or feed the peafowl and does not allow pets; from Eilers Park it starts at the pool and the lake and climbs. Pick the one nearest the house you are considering, check the City's page for that park the morning you go, and note that the directory counts 382 parks and 18,228.0980 acres of dedicated parkland citywide, so a park name on a listing means less than the specific park's acreage and hours.

Our Tarrytown neighborhood guide explains why none of these figures can be rolled into a Tarrytown-wide number: the City's planning layer contains no boundary named Tarrytown, and ZIP 78703 is larger than the neighborhood. The walk is the substitute for the missing boundary.

Sources: City of Austin Parks and Recreation ↗

What do the transitions between street, sidewalk and front door tell you?

The point of walking Tarrytown is not to pick a favorite facade. It is to read the transitions between road, sidewalk, garden and front door on each block, because those transitions are what you will live in every day and what a listing photograph crops out. Notice where sidewalks exist and where they stop, how far houses sit back from the curb, whether the front walk climbs steps or a slope, and how much of the street is under tree canopy at the hour you are there.

Trees deserve a second look. Austin's tree ordinance, which our post on checking trees before buying an Austin home covers, regulates what can be done near a protected tree, so a lot that feels generous under a live oak may have less buildable room than its size suggests. Note which trees stand between the house and the street and which shade the roof.

Then vary the time. A quiet midday block and the same block at 5:30 p.m., when Exposition Boulevard and Enfield Road carry the commute, are different places. The Austin Strategic Mobility Plan, adopted April 21, 2019 and amended November 30, 2023, records that 74% of Austinites drive alone to work and sets a goal of a 50/50 mode share by 2039; on a Tarrytown walk that statistic shows up as driveways, curb cuts and the sound of MoPac from a back garden. Write the observations down as questions about a specific lot rather than as a score for the neighborhood.

Sources: City of Austin Transportation and Public Works ↗

Is Tarrytown a historic district, and which neighborhood plan applies?

Tarrytown is not a City of Austin local historic district, and it is not inside the Old West Austin National Register district either, although listings often imply both. The City's historic-districts page names eight local historic districts: Aldridge Place, Castle Hill, Harthan Street, Hyde Park, Mary Street, Robertson/Stuart & Mair, Rogers-Washington-Holy Cross and Smoot/Terrace Park. In those districts, exterior changes to contributing properties require review and approval by the Historic Preservation Office or Historic Landmark Commission, and all ground-up construction must comply with the district's design standards.

The Texas Historical Commission's atlas entry for the Old West Austin Historic District, listed on the National Register on September 12, 2003, describes it as “roughly bounded by West 13th, Lamar Blvd., W. 35th, and Mo-pac Expressway,” with styles recorded as late 19th and 20th century revivals and American movements across periods from 1850 to 1974. Tarrytown lies west of MoPac. What can still apply to a Tarrytown house is an individual landmark designation, which is a property-level fact to confirm on the City's Property Profile tool, with the City's own caveat that “some data may not reflect recent changes or updates.”

On planning, the City's list of adopted neighborhood plans includes the Central West Austin Combined plan, adopted September 2010, whose summary covers land use, transportation, recreational areas and community life; its future land use map, dated September 23, 2010 and last revised May 27, 2021, draws a planning area that runs from Lake Austin east across MoPac, which by our reading of the map takes in Tarrytown. The Old West Austin plan of June 29, 2000 covers the area east of MoPac. Because the City's planning layer has no boundary named Tarrytown, the plan and future land use category that govern a particular address are still a Property Profile question. Our guide to Austin zoning and deed restrictions explains why the deed can matter more than either.

Sources: City of Austin Planning ↗ · Texas Historical Commission atlas ↗ · City of Austin Development Services ↗

What are Deep Eddy Pool's hours and history, and how do Tarrytown's pools fit an ordinary week?

Deep Eddy Municipal Pool at 401 Deep Eddy Avenue is, in the City of Austin's words, “the oldest swimming pool in Texas”: in 1915 A.J. Eilers Sr. bought the land around the swimming hole and built the concrete pool, and the City says the water that fills it today is pumped from the same aquifer by on-site wells and the pool is “filled daily with natural, untreated aquifer water.” The deep side is 33 yards long with 8 lanes and runs 4 to 8 feet deep; the shallow side goes from zero depth to 4 feet. The 2026 season ran March 14 to October 31, with lap swimming 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and recreational swimming 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and from April 21, 2026 the pool closed every Tuesday for cleaning and maintenance; the City lists a pool hotline at (512) 974-1189 and says Deep Eddy charges admission.

Tarrytown's other public pool works on a different calendar, and the difference decides which one belongs in a weekly routine. Reed Pool at 2614 Pecos Street is free to enter, 20 yards long with 4 lanes and 3 to 5 feet deep, with a chair lift and an outdoor shower; as of September 26, 2026 the City lists it closed for the winter season with summer 2027 schedules to be posted in the spring.

The City operates seven regional pools, three community pools, 22 neighborhood pools, one wading pool, Barton Springs Pool and 10 splash pads, and charges admission at only six of them, March through October: Bartholomew, Barton Springs, Deep Eddy, Springwoods, Northwest and Garrison. A Tarrytown address therefore comes with one of the free pools and one of the fee pools within its own parks, on opposite schedules.

The third amenity is a trail. The Johnson Creek Greenbelt runs from 2001 Enfield Road toward the lake, and The Trail Conservancy's all-access map draws the Johnson Creek Trail as a connecting trail into the Ann and Roy Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail at its Johnson Creek at MoPac trailhead, beside Deep Eddy Pool and Eilers Park. Whether that connection is a comfortable walk from a given house is exactly the kind of route our post on choosing a Butler Trail connection you will use tells you to test.

Sources: City of Austin Parks and Recreation ↗ · The Trail Conservancy ↗

How do you get to and from Tarrytown without driving?

Three CapMetro routes have stops on Tarrytown's own streets, by our reading of the agency's GTFS schedule feed dated August 26, 2026. Route 18 Martin Luther King stops on Enfield Road at Norwalk Lane and on Exposition Boulevard at 8th Street; Route 663 Lake Austin/UT stops on Lake Austin Boulevard at Exposition; and Route 335 35th/38th stops on Exposition at Northwood Road. East of MoPac, the 35th and Jefferson stops add Route 30 Barton Creek/Bull Creek, Route 491 Allandale and the 982 Pavilion Express. These are measurements from the feed, not CapMetro's description of its service, and the agency's trip planner gives the times.

CapMetro says its High-Frequency Network is 14 routes that run every 15 to 30 minutes from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week; the schedules page does not list which routes those are, so check the route page for any line you would depend on before assuming that frequency. For a Tarrytown house, the honest test is the one our moving-to-Austin route test describes: the actual trip to work, to groceries and to one place you go for pleasure, at the hour you would make it, by whatever mode you would really use.

Sources: CapMetro ↗

What do houses for sale in Tarrytown cost, and why is 78703 not the answer?

No published figure describes what houses for sale in Tarrytown cost, because Unlock MLS reports its August 2026 release by metro, city and county only. The City of Austin median sale price was $560,000 in August 2026, down 4.3% from a year earlier, on 844 closed sales, with 4.6 months of inventory and an average close-to-list price of 93.3%; Travis County's median was $489,000 and the metro's $412,000.

A ZIP-code index is the usual substitute, and our Tarrytown guide quotes one for 78703 with its caveats, but 78703 contains Clarksville, Old Enfield, Pemberton Heights and Bryker Woods as well as Tarrytown, and the guide shows how widely the named areas inside it diverge. Treat any 78703 number as a description of the ZIP, not of a Tarrytown street.

The citywide figures still tell you the market's temperature: 4.6 months of inventory and a 93.3% close-to-list average mean that City of Austin sellers, on average, were conceding time and some price in August 2026. For an offer on a specific house, the number that matters is closed sales on comparable Tarrytown streets from the last few months, which David can pull from the MLS. The market page carries each Unlock MLS release, and the payment estimator turns an asking price into a monthly figure at this week's rate.

Sources: Unlock MLS ↗

What separates the Tarrytown neighborhood from the lot?

A West Austin location does not establish waterfront access, flood conditions, a development entitlement or a school assignment; those belong to the specific property and the current records. Lake Austin Boulevard is a street name, not a shoreline, and a house near Johnson Creek or Eilers Park should be checked against the City's floodplain maps before its view is priced in. The City defines the 100-year floodplain as land predicted to flood in a storm with a 1% chance of occurring in any given year, mapped today for 10.2 inches of rain in 24 hours and being redrawn for almost 13 inches in some areas; check the exact parcel on FloodPro, as our guide to reading the Austin flood map explains.

Zoning, overlays and any landmark designation come from Property Profile; permit history comes from the City's permit records, which our post on checking a home's permit history walks through; and the appraisal, deed and tax records come from the sources listed on the property research desk. School attendance boundaries are a district question to confirm with Austin ISD for the address, not something a neighborhood name settles.

After the walk, write down what you would revisit: a route, a housing type, a park, a question about a particular lot. That shorter list is the useful output. Bring it, with the address, to David, and he can add the closed comparable sales and the parcel's records; send the address to start.

Sources: City of Austin Watershed Protection ↗ · City of Austin Development Services ↗