South Congress
South Congress is a neighborhood located on South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas known as a shopping and cultural district with many eclectic small retailers, restaurants, music and art venues and, more recently, food trucks.
South Congress is a neighborhood located on South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas known as a shopping and cultural district with many eclectic small retailers, restaurants, music and art venues and, more recently, food trucks.
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Worth seeing in and around South Congress
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01The Austonian
The Austonian is a residential skyscraper in Downtown Austin, Texas, USA. At 683 feet tall with 56 floors, the building is the third tallest in Austin, overtaking the 360 Condominiums and behind The Independent and Sixth and Guadalupe. It is also the third tallest building in Texas outside of Houston and Dallas, and the second tallest all-residential building in North America west of the Mississippi River.
1.7 km · residential skyscraper in Downtown Austin, Texas · Wikipedia - 02Diocese of Austin
The Diocese of Austin is a diocese of the Catholic Church in Central Texas in the United States, with the see city in Austin. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.
0 m · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia - 03Blanton Museum of Art
The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest university art museums in the U.S. with 189,340 square feet devoted to temporary exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, storage, administrative offices, classrooms, a print study room, an auditorium, shop, and cafe. The Blanton's permanent collection consists of more than 22,000 works, with significant holdings of modern and contemporary art, Latin American art, Old Master paintings, and prints and drawings from Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
3.6 km · art museum in Austin, Texas · Wikipedia - 04St. Edward's University
St. Edward's University is a private, Catholic university in Austin, Texas, United States.
1.9 km · university in Austin, Texas · Wikipedia - 05Texas State Cemetery
The Texas State Cemetery is a cemetery located on about 22 acres just east of downtown Austin, the capital of the U.S. state of Texas. Originally the burial place of Edward Burleson, Texas Revolutionary general and vice-president of the Republic of Texas, it was expanded into a Confederate cemetery during the Civil War.
2.8 km · historic cemetery in Austin, Texas, USA · Wikipedia - 06Moody Center
Moody Center is a multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas. The arena, which replaced the Frank Erwin Center, stands on a former parking lot located immediately south of UT's soccer/track and field venue, Mike A. Myers Stadium.
3.9 km · indoor arena in Austin, Texas · Wikipedia - 07University of Austin
The University of Austin is an unaccredited private liberal arts university located in Austin, Texas, United States. The university established a campus in Downtown Austin's Scarbrough Building, enrolling its first undergraduate cohort in the fall of 2024.
3.9 km · private liberal arts university in Austin, Texas · Wikipedia - 08Frost Bank Tower
The Frost Bank Tower is a skyscraper in Austin, Texas, United States. Standing 515 ft tall with 33 floors, it is the 15th tallest building in Austin.
2 km · skyscraper in Austin Texas · Wikipedia - 09Perry–Castañeda Library
The Perry–Castañeda Library is the main central library of the University of Texas at Austin library system in Austin, Texas. PCL is located at 21st Street and Speedway in Austin, TX. The UT Austin campus library system holds nearly eight million volumes, ranking it as the fifth largest library among academic institutions in the United States, and the eleventh largest overall in the country.
3.8 km · library · Wikipedia - 10Cathedral of Saint Mary
Saint Mary Cathedral is the cathedral parish of the Catholic Diocese of Austin located in Austin, Texas, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, as St.
2.5 km · church in Texas, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to South Congress
- Airports
- Austin Bergstrom (AUS), 10 km · San Antonio (SAT), 106 km · George Bush Intercontinental (IAH), 234 km
- San Antonio → South Congress115 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · $10–14
- Houston → South Congress236 km · quickest by road, 3h 46m · $21–29
- Dallas → South Congress297 km · quickest by road, 4h 24m · $25–35
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for South Congress
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for South Congress. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are a selection of buses, taxis, ride share (Uber & Lyft), shared ride shuttles and car rentals to get you into town and back.
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Next door to South Congress
South Congress is 2 km from Austin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Sixth Streethistoric district in Austin, Texas, United States2.2 km