Jan 30, 2026 | 10:59 am
The Butler Trail’s long-awaited final link is here, and Austin is celebrating. The Trail Conservancy and the City of Austin will host a Wishbone Bridge & Unity Underpass ribbon-cutting celebration on Saturday, February 7, from 10 am to 12:30 pm at the Wishbone Bridge plaza near Longhorn Dam.
The event will include music, activities, and the opportunity to be among the first to experience the newly completed stretch of the trail.
With the opening of the Wishbone Bridge and Unity Underpass, Austin’s Ann and Roy Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail becomes a continuous, traffic-free loop, closing the final major gap in the trail’s roughly 10-mile circuit around Lady Bird Lake. The roughly $25 million project represents the culmination of years of planning to fully connect one of the city’s most heavily used public spaces…