Taking a tour of Austin’s planted environment - What’s Out There Weekend offers 27 landscapes for free guided tours.

The first Austin acreage designated as parkland was Pease Park along Shoal Creek in 1875. Yet from the very beginning, the city cultivated cultural landscapes, sometimes in fits and starts.  More than two dozen of them — from the Elisabet Ney Museum and Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center to the Capitol grounds and Zilker Botanical Gardens — are now part of a national registry put together by the Cultural Landscape Foundation. This Saturday and Sunday, experts will guide folks through these landscapes during What’s Out There Weekend. The tours are free, but you must register in advance at tclf.org/wotw.