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Steck Valley Greenbelt

Type: Trail

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Rating:

(2.67)3

Difficulty: 2point5stars

(2.83)

Solitude:

(4.17)

ADA Accessible: No

Bikes Allowed: N/A

Dogs Allowed: N/A

Interpretive Guide: N/A

Address: 8403 Adirondack Trail

City: Austin

County: Travis

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In the area nearing the trailhead at the end of Steck Ave, the trail becomes hard to recognize. There are a few downed trees over the trail that you must pass over. (Photo by heatharcadia)

Here is the spider whose web was blocking our path. We turned around instead of destroying its web, so I am unsure how much farther the trail goes heading towards 360. (Photo by heatharcadia)

one of the creeks (Photo by jimmy peace)

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Short hike for when you're looking for some solitude
By heatharcadia on 9/2/2019
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Distance: 1.52 Miles Duration: 1 hour, 4 minutes
This was a short hike at an area I had never been to. We did not see anyone else while we were out, though there were several places where we could hear noise from the roads or houses surrounding the area. We began at the trailhead at the end of Hyridge Dr, hiked to the end of the trail off of Great Hills Trl, turned around, hiked a bit towards 360, turned around again when the path became narrow because a cool spider had built a large web in the trees across the trail and we did not want to disturb it, then hiked down towards Steck Ave and back up to where we started. We noticed a few smaller trails branching out from the main trail. We did not go down any of those. For the most part. the trail is well-defined. The only confusing portion we encountered was nearing Steck Ave when the trail disappears into a creekbed for awhile. There were a couple of creek crossings, but no water at this time. I'm unsure how easy it would be to navigate it when there is water in the creeks.

a greenbelt i had not conquered
By jimmy peace on 5/27/2019
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Distance: 1.40 Miles Duration: 1 hour

very quiet and secluded

Caching and hiking
By Austin Explorer on 1/25/2015
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Distance: 0.60 Mile Duration: 26 minutes

Coppertone and I found five caches along the trail here on a recent visit back to attend a friend's wedding. We had seen this greenbelt on the maps, but had never visited before.

We parked on Adirondack Trail, at the end of Steck Avenue. The trail starting here is a bit more informal and at times appears more than a path along the creek bed. The trail is a bit more defined after it meets up with the trail coming in from Hyridge Drive.

Due to recent rains the creeks were flowing a bit more than normal and so we were unable to make it all the way to the trailhead on Great Hills Trail and had to turn back. If we had been in hiking boots we would have given it a shot, but we were wearing our only pairs of non-dress shoes so retraced our steps back to Adirondack Trail.