Most neighborhood guides to Tarrytown lead with the tree canopy and the proximity to downtown. Anyone who lives here already knows those things. What actually organizes a Tarrytown week in August 2026 is a pair of calendars that changed quietly this year, both attached to public institutions older than the neighborhood's oldest homes.
Lions Municipal Golf Course sits on the western edge. Deep Eddy Pool sits on the southern edge. They are roughly a mile apart, both over a century old, and both operating under new 2026 schedules that a resident feels more sharply than any tourist. If you have not adjusted your Tuesday plans yet, you are about to.
Two Institutions, One Neighborhood Edge
The argument for Tarrytown as a place to spend a life, rather than a place to visit, has less to do with the housing stock than with what borders it. On one side, Lions Municipal Golf Course, nicknamed Muny, is a municipal golf course at 2901 Enfield Road in Austin, Texas, occupying 141 acres of land the City of Austin leases from the University of Texas since 1937 as part of the greater Brackenridge Tract. On the other, Deep Eddy Pool is an historic, man-made swimming pool and is the oldest swimming pool in Texas, filled from underground springs that hold the water at roughly the same temperature all year.
Neither is a private amenity. Both are woven into how residents move through the neighborhood on foot, on a bike, or in the ten minutes between school pickup and dinner. When their hours shift, so does the shape of a Tarrytown week.
What Actually Changed This Summer
The two calendars residents care about were rewritten within the last few months.
| Institution | 2026 change | Effective |
|---|---|---|
| Deep Eddy Pool | Closed every Tuesday for cleaning and maintenance | Began April 21, 2026 |
| Lions Municipal | Course closed for aerifying, reopens next day at noon | August 17–18, 2026 |
| Lions Municipal | Closed every 3rd Monday of the month, holidays and major tournaments excepted | Ongoing |
| Save Historic Muny District | Preservation board extended | Through May 2027 |
The Tuesday closure at Deep Eddy is the newer, more disruptive one for daily use. Beginning April 21, 2026, Deep Eddy Pool will be closed every Tuesday for cleaning and maintenance. For lap swimmers who used a Tuesday morning slot before work, that is a real change to a routine that had held for years. The city notes separately that Deep Eddy Pool is filled daily with natural, untreated spring water and fill times can be variable, which is why the scheduled maintenance day matters more than it would at a chlorinated municipal pool.
The Muny calendar is more granular. The course is closed every 3rd Monday of the month excluding holidays and major golf tournaments, and closed for aerifying March 10-11, June 15, and August 17-18, opening the following day at 12 noon. If you are used to walking the perimeter along Enfield or teeing off after work in late August, plan around that mid-month window.
The Question Sitting Under the 8th Hole
Muny's schedule is easy to check. Its future is not.
The 141 acres are leased from the University of Texas as part of the greater Brackenridge Tract, and the course has been subject to ongoing controversy due to the recommended termination of the current term by the University of Texas in 2019. As of 2019 the city was paying UT $500,000 per year to lease the golf course land. That figure, set against a tract that outside estimates place well into nine figures, is the tension that has kept the course in limbo for decades.
The 2026 update matters because it is legislative rather than rhetorical. The Texas House initially approved House Bill 2421 to keep the "Save Historic Muny District" alive for another two years, covering the course that was the first in the southern U.S. to voluntarily desegregate in the 1950s, with the district set to continue through May 2027. In practical terms, that gives the Muny Conservancy a defined runway to negotiate with UT rather than watching the clock run out.
Why this belongs in a neighborhood guide rather than a policy brief: the 8th hole runs along Exposition Boulevard, and across from O. Henry Middle School, MUNY is home to O. Henry's golf team as well as more than a dozen local school teams. The course is a school field, a walking loop, and, as the Conservancy has repeatedly pointed out, a wildlife sanctuary sitting over a water recharge zone. The preservation timeline is a Tarrytown question dressed as a real estate question.
Deep Eddy Without the Weekend Line
Because Deep Eddy is now closed Tuesdays, the traffic patterns on Wednesday morning and Sunday afternoon have shifted noticeably. If you have been going on weekends out of habit, a Wednesday at 9 a.m. is the quietest window it has been in years.
Two details worth knowing if you are new to the neighborhood or new to the pool:
- The pool is fed with clear, cold water from two wells, one at 300 ft and a second new one at 400 ft, and is not chlorinated, with water temperature varying between 68 and 75 °F. That is why it feels sharper than the pool at your friend's house in Westlake.
- In summer months, the pool sponsors Splash Party Movie Nights, showing family films on an inflatable movie screen visible by swimmers and waders. The lineup varies week to week, and the schedule is worth checking rather than assuming.
For context on how young this all is not: In May 1935, the City of Austin bought the property for $10,000. The bathhouse standing there today was rebuilt during that same era through Depression-era public works.
The Half-Mile Between Them
Between Muny at Enfield and Deep Eddy at 401 Deep Eddy Avenue, most Tarrytown residents have a preferred sequence for a good weekend morning. Ordered, not ranked:
- Coffee at Tiny Boxwoods in Kerbey Lane Village. Austin's own Tiny Boxwoods is tucked amidst trees and greenery in Bryker Woods, steps from the picturesque shops and cottages of Kerbey Lane Village, including the walk-up bakery, Milk & Cookies. The 35th Street location closes Mondays, which lines up cleanly with Muny's occasional 3rd-Monday closure if you are trying to consolidate errands.
- A morning loop around Muny's perimeter or a tee time if you booked early. Online tee times for Monday through Thursday open at 9 a.m., seven days in advance, and tee times for Saturday and Sunday open the preceding Monday online only at 8 p.m.
- A swim at Deep Eddy, followed by the short walk to Pool Burger next door. The pipeline is well established enough that visitors write it on itineraries and residents don't need to.
None of this is exotic. That is the point. The reason Tarrytown holds value across decades has less to do with any single house on Windsor Road than with the fact that this half-mile sequence has been available, in some form, since the 1920s.
What A Resident Actually Notices
A short list of things you learn only by living here:
- The grain on Muny's greens matters. Longtime players say the grass always grows toward the setting sun. If you have wondered why your putt broke the wrong way on the 4th, that is why.
- Lions also hosts Texas' oldest amateur tournament, the Firecracker Open, which quietly reroutes neighborhood traffic on its dates.
- The Muny Conservancy hosts an annual Imagine Muny gala at ACL Live and a separate 19th Hole Party, both of which draw a Tarrytown-heavy crowd and are the two evenings a year when it feels like everyone on your street is at the same event.
- Deep Eddy's lap and wading sections keep separate calendars from the bathhouse building. Lap swim is usable in shoulder months when the wading pool is closed, and admission is free for intrepid lap swimmers throughout the late Fall and Winter.
A Practical Note on August 17
If you have a Muny habit and a Deep Eddy habit, August 17 is the one day this summer where both are constrained. Muny is closed for aerifying that Monday. If it falls on a Tuesday in a future year, Deep Eddy will be closed the same day. Circle it, or plan a longer drive to Barton Springs.
For anyone considering a move into Tarrytown, or debating whether to stay through another Austin summer, the honest case for the neighborhood is not the housing stock. It is that two of the oldest, most argued-over public amenities in the city sit at either end of the same walkable half-mile, and both are still, as of this week, doing what they were built to do a hundred years ago.
If you are thinking through what a home in Tarrytown looks like for the next chapter, or weighing a sale in this pocket of Central Austin, Leslie Gossett would be glad to walk the neighborhood with you. Let's connect.
