Small Town Convenience with Larger Town Feel
The Mill Pond Trail is a short 1 block walk down Fifth Avenue heading west. This trail offers a 0.88 mile walk around Austin's Mill Pond that crosses by the Austin Public Library, Austin's Municipal Pool and Park, and the Hormel Plant.
www.ci.austin.mn.us
This manmade lake is a 40-acre reservoir that is only three blocks from Webster Apartments. A wonderful trail loops around the lake and leads to a nice park. The park has ample parking if you drive to it and there is a great fishing pier. The park boasts a large pavilion shelter for picnics and gatherings as well as a nice fishing pier.
The Jay C. Hormel Nature Center features over 500 acres of prairie, forests, and wetlands. Keep your eyes and ears open for many kinds of wildlife as you explore the 10+ miles of trails!
www.hormelnaturecenter.org
The Historic Paramount Theater was built in 1929 as a first run movie house, it is a unique atmospheric theatre with a Spanish motif. Restoration of the Paramount began in 1989. Today, The Austin Area Commission for the Arts presents a full season of performing arts and makes the theater available to the community and artists for private rental.
www.austinareaarts.org
The City of Austin's 26,800 square feet Library opened in September 1996. It is situated so that it overlooks the historic Mill Pond and is adjacent to Horace Austin Park and the Mill Pond Trail. The library's circulation is over 90,000 volumes which include a wide variety of newspapers, magazines, CD's, and DVD's. The library also features public use of its computers, audio-visual equipment, and is a Free Wi-Fi Hotspot.
www.aplmn.org
The main floor of the ArtWorks Center houses a collection of handmade goods—from jewelry to pottery and mugs made in their very own clay studio—by artists from the area as well as across the nation. Take a peek at artists samples, sign up for an art class, but most of all, stop by to see it in person.
www.austinareaarts.org
The Spam Museum is an admission free museum located in downtown Austin, Minnesota dedicated to Spam, a brand of canned precooked meat products made by Hormel Foods Corporation. The museum tells the history of the Hormel company, the origin of Spam, and its place in world culture.
www.spam.com
The Hormel Historic Home was the treasured home of George A. and Lillian Hormel. It is now restored to its early 1900’s splendor and is open for tours as well as private rentals for weddings and events.
www.hormelhistorichome.org
A 7 screen first run movie theater showing all the latest movies.
austin.odysseytheatres.com
Austin’s newest Recreation Center featuring 105,000 square feet that opened in 2020. It has an indoor playground, 3 fitness studios, running/walking track, indoor pool, multipurpose gym, school age daycare, and so much more!
ymcaatacrc.org
The largest outdoor pool in Austin that features a separate diving pool with two different height diving boards, a separate children pool, large deck area, a rock wall, and slide. Great place to cool off from the summer heat.
austinmnpool.weebly.com
When you want to hit the ice, Riverside Arena is only 3 blocks away! Riverside Arena is home to the Austin Bruins which is a junior division hockey team in the North American Hockey League. Attendance is always very high and so is the excitement and enthusiasm for the team. If you are looking to do a little ice skating of your own, you can use the open ice-skating time periods to do so.
www.austinbruins.com
Hobby Lobby is primarily an arts-and-crafts store, but also includes hobbies, picture-framing, jewelry making, fabrics, floral and wedding supplies, cards, party ware, baskets, wearable art, home accents, and holiday merchandise.
www.hobbylobby.com
A great place to find a unique gift and it a perfect place to find a bouquet of flowers.
www.hardygeranium.net
A fun place to shop. For all of your athletic clothing needs and gear, check the place out.
www.scathlete.com
An American women’s clothing retail chain based out of Duluth, Minnesota. A great store with on trend fashions and good prices.
www.maurices.com
Austin’s version of a Fleet Farm, only so much better. It carries a wide array of home & farm supplies as well as outdoor goods. For the hard to find item, this store more than likely will have it.
www.runnings.com
Austin has several Kwik Trip locations with its closest one to Webster being only 8 blocks away. Great deals on produce, car wash available, and great in store selection of items.
www.kwiktrip.com
Torge’s Live Sports Pub & Grill Restaurant is a vibrant hangout with live music, 20+ flat-screen TVs, a great outdoor patio, plus bingo & karoke nights!
www.torgeslive.com
A circa 1949 restaurant located in an 1850’s old flour mill that overlooks the cedar river. The restaurant offers steaks, seafood, ribs, plus an extensive craft beer and wine selection.
www.oldmill.net
A great Mexican restaurant that offers fresh genuine Mexican food at reasonable prices.
1910fresh.com
This restaurant offers fresh authentic Italian food. The portions are very generous.
www.bellavictoria.org
Four Daughters Vineyard & Winery is a fully operational winery, cidery, restaurant and event center. Our sprawling estate includes a tasting room and large production areas, as well as a 6-acre vineyard on the property. Nestled in rural Southeastern Minnesota, the winery is now the exclusive home of Four Daughters wines, Sunflake wines and Loon Juice hard cider.
fourdaughtersvineyard.com
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