A three-acre spring-fed pool at 68°F all year. On a hot Austin afternoon there is nothing better, and it costs a few dollars.

Pink granite, taller than the one in Washington, and free to tour every day. Look up in the rotunda.

Two sister resorts on one lift ticket: Jack Frost for families and learners, Big Boulder for the park crowd, night skiing and tubing.

Sixteen acres of bare ice-age boulders in the middle of a forest, a 25-foot waterfall and a sandy lake beach. Free.