Round Rock, the “Sports Capital of Texas,” is home to the Round Rock Express, the AAA affiliate of the Houston Astros. The Express home games are played on the Dell Diamond. For more outdoor adventures and sporting activity, visit one of Round Rock’s spacious parks -- Old Settlers Park and Williamson County Park.
Old Settlers, Round Rock's largest
park, claims 570 acres including baseball, softball,
football, soccer, tennis, sand volleyball and disc
golf amenities.Round Rock’s brand new Rock’N River
Family Aquatic Center, located within Old Settlers
Park, opened in June 2006 and features a lazy river,
crazy slides and a water playground.
Round Rock's seven golf courses include the 8,427-foot Forest Creek Golf Course, one of the biggest in the U.S. Round Rock’s visitors also have numerous choices for dining, shopping and accommodations. Round Rock’s 150 fine and casual dining locations offer American, Asian, Italian, Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine, bakeries, coffee shops, delis, barbeque and seafood.
The newly-opened Round Rock Premium Outlets shopping center features 120 designer and name-brand outlet stores as well as a 14-screen, state-of-the-art movie theater. The IKEA in Round Rock presents 50 different room settings, three complete homes, a supervised children’s play area and a 250-seat restaurant serving Swedish specialties and American dishes. And Round Rock, recently named the 13th safest city in the U.S., offers visitors a choice of 2,000 welcoming hotel rooms.
The city offers historic walking tours of downtown and an outdoor history display. Visitors can choose between a traditional walking tour or a ghost tour of downtown to discover the history of Round Rock. That history includes “The Crossing.” After the Civil War, the major source of income for Texans was cattle. Trail drivers, such as Jesse Chisholm, led their cattle to market in Kansas on The Chisholm Trail which ran from Kansas south, through Round Rock and to the Rio Grande.
Texas sculptor Jim Thomas was commissioned by the city to create a 1.5 scale 22-figure bronze sculptural composition depicting life along the Chisholm Trail in the late 1800s. The trail passed through Round Rock at a specific spot at Brushy Creek, marked by the round limestone rock for which the city is named -- a crossing point for thousands of cattle. It is at this location, “The Crossing,” that the commemorative site and sculpture park is located.
