Bats Underneath Congress Bridge - Austin Things To Do

  • Address: 100 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701-4072
  • Phone: 5124165700
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  • Website:www.batcon.org
Average Rating
4.5
 87+ reviews
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Yelp
4.0
 57+ reviews
Yahoo! Travel
5.0
 30+ reviews
Bats Underneath Congress Bridge
100 Congress Ave
Austin, TX 78701-4072

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Descriptions from Across the Web

  • The Congress Bridge over Town Lake houses approximately one and a half million bats in mid-summer. In the spring, the pregnant female makes her way north to roosting sites in the Southwestern United States. They each give birth to a baby and at five weeks of age the pups can fly. Hundreds of peop... more on Yahoo! Travel
  • The Austin bridge is where nearly 1.5 million bats live. more on TripAdvisor
  • Though it may look like your average overpass, Ann Richards Congress Avenue Bridge houses one of Austin's natural wondersthe world's largest urban bat colony. From March through November, approximately 1.5 million bats consider this simple structure their summer home. The Mexican free-tailed bats... more on NileGuide

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3.0
Not that great as expected

Its just a hype and sight millions of bats flying is good but up to what I expected. Worth one visit. ... A Yahoo! User, a user of Yahoo! Travel. Read full review on Yahoo! Travel

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5.0
I'm batty over the bridge!

I was recently in Austin on business and decided to check out this tourist attraction. I really had low expectations--after all, how exciting can a bunch of bats be? We called the Bat Hotline (--) to find out the "take-off" time and got to the bridge about 30 minutes before. We settled down next ... ppconnell, a user of Tripadvisor. Read full review on TripAdvisor

4.0
Christopher N. 's review

We watched them returning home before sunrise. Pretty neat. a user of yelp.com. Read full review on Yelp

5.0
Batty

A nice way to segue day into night at the capitol city. Bring a blanket and lay on the grass to really enjoy the spectacle. watsonsinelgin, a user of Yahoo! Travel. Read full review on Yahoo! Travel

4.0
Jaime M. 's review

Fun experience the first time, then again with some people who had no idea what they were getting themselves into, but I wouldn't do it more than once every ... a user of yelp.com. Read full review on Yelp

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