Out of Bounds puts improv, sketch and stand-up from Texas and across the country on Austin's stages for four nights in November. Here is the city round them: choose a show, see what is near its door, save the places you want and plan the hours either side.
Choose one of the festival's shows and its room comes with it, or choose a room yourself; every place below is measured from there. Before or after the show, the planner on your Vision Board does the sums.
A show's published start time is not its door time or its end. Tickets and changes: the festival's own site.
The end time is yours to set: festivals publish starts, not finishes.
Thirty-seven places, from the Capitol and a bridge full of bats to a two-step lesson and a day at the Alamo. Each card's picture is its own pin.
37 places
Free guided tours of about forty minutes leave the South Foyer every 15 to 30 minutes, from 9am (noon on Sundays) to the last at 4:15pm. Or go round on your own: the doors open 7am to 8pm on weekdays and 9am to 8pm at weekends.
1100 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701
Texas history a few blocks north of the Capitol, open every day 10am to 5pm; adults pay $22. Its IMAX screen is six storeys high and takes a ticket of its own, and the Star Cafe needs no museum ticket at all.
1800 N. Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701
The University of Texas's art museum, open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am, to 8pm on Saturdays and 5pm other days; adults pay $15, and Tuesdays are free. Nothing to eat or drink in the galleries, not even water; big bags go in free lockers.
200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Austin, TX 78712
Free galleries on the university campus, open Tuesday to Friday 10am to 5pm and weekend afternoons from noon. Among the treasures: one of just five complete Gutenberg Bibles in the US, and Niépce's heliograph, the oldest camera photograph still in existence.
300 West 21st Street, Austin, TX 78712
Open every day 9am to 5pm, last entry at 4pm. Tickets can always be bought at the door ($16 for adults) and visitor parking in lot 38 is free; when UT plays at home, expect heavy traffic round it.
2313 Red River St., Austin, TX 78705
Up to 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats live under the bridge, the biggest bat colony in any city on earth. They fly south to Mexico as the first cold fronts arrive, late October to mid-November, so an early-November flight is a maybe. Watch for free from the Statesman's Bat Observation Area on the southeast side; the bat boats stop after October.
Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge, Austin, TX
Three acres of water fed by springs that hold at 68 to 70°F, so people swim here all year. Open 5am to 10pm, except on Thursdays, when it shuts for cleaning from 9am to 7pm (5 November is a Thursday). Visitors pay $9; no food, coolers, glass or alcohol.
2201 William Barton Dr, Austin, TX 78746
More than 350 acres where Barton Creek meets Lady Bird Lake, with Barton Springs Pool, the Zilker Botanical Garden, the Nature and Science Center and UMLAUF inside it. Parking goes to whoever gets there first, and the weekend charge runs only from spring break to Labor Day; bus 30 goes through.
2100 Barton Springs Road, Austin, TX
About ten miles of path round Lady Bird Lake. Roughly half of it has no lights, worth knowing after an evening show, and the boardwalk closes from midnight to 5am. The I-35 crossing over the lake is shut while the highway is rebuilt: cross at South Congress or the Wishbone Bridge.
Ann and Roy Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail, Austin, TX
A sculpture garden and museum over the road from Barton Springs Pool, open Tuesday to Friday 10am to 4pm and weekends 11am to 4pm; adults pay $8. Sunday 8 November is its free Family Day, 11am to 4pm. You may touch the outdoor bronzes, gently.
605 Azie Morton Road, Austin, TX 78704
Stone steps climb a 784-foot rise above Lake Austin to a view over the water, downtown and the hills beyond. Open every day, 5am to 10pm.
3800 Mount Bonnell Rd., Austin, TX 78731
The University of Texas's 284-acre botanic garden, open 9am to 5pm, last entry 4pm. Buy tickets ahead: adults pay $18 Friday to Sunday and $15 earlier in the week, by card only. Its café is shut for remodeling, so eat before you go.
4801 La Crosse Ave., Austin, TX 78739
Six walkable blocks of South Congress, Nellie Street to Annie Street, full of local shops, murals and places to eat; the "I Love You So Much" mural is on the wall at Jo's Coffee. Street parking is paid through the ParkATX app.
South Congress Avenue, Austin, TX
On the National Register of Historic Places since 1985, among East Austin's historic sites. Where the street meets the lake, the Rainey Street Trailhead opened in 2024 on the lakeside trail, with a lawn, a playscape and a floating dock.
Rainey Street, Austin, TX 78701
Bands on South Congress every night since 1955: roots, rockabilly, country, swing, rock and blues. The neon over its door is one of the street's landmarks, and the city has named the club a historic landmark too.
1315 South Congress Avenue, Austin, TX
A Texas dancehall since 1964, open Tuesday to Saturday from 4pm. There's a free early show over dinner from 6 to 8pm, two-step and swing lessons Wednesday to Saturday from 8 to 9pm, and the dancehall doors open at 7:15pm.
3201 S. Lamar Blvd., Austin, TX 78704
The blues club Clifford Antone started in 1975, with a show on every night of the festival, Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham among them on Saturday 7 November. Shows are for over-21s unless the listing says otherwise; the Westin across the street sells valet parking.
305 E 5th Street, Austin, TX 78701
Live music on South Lamar for over-21s, from 4pm (fall game days can change that), with happy hour until 6pm and some free happy-hour sets; most nights carry a cover. Food comes from Wrigleyville South Dogs & Beef, just outside the front door.
1320 S. Lamar, Austin, TX 78704
A jazz basement on Congress with music every night of the year since 1991. It opens Thursday and Friday at 5pm, Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 7pm, till 2am (1am on Sunday), and the $5 to $10 cover starts at 8pm. Over-21s only; you can't book.
315 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78701
A restaurant and music venue at 8th and Red River. The restaurant opens at 11am every day and serves until 10pm Thursday to Saturday. Most shows are standing only, sold through Ticketmaster, and whether all ages get in depends on the show. It has no car park: take a cab to 9th and Red River.
801 Red River St, Austin, TX
Concerts for all ages on Willie Nelson Boulevard, where anyone over one needs a ticket. Tickets live in the AXS app, never on paper, and the venue takes no cash; the box office on 2nd Street opens only on show days, an hour before doors.
310 W Willie Nelson Blvd, Austin, TX 78701
The Paramount is closed for its first full renovation since the late 1970s, with every one of its 1,200 seats being replaced. Until it reopens, its box office and its shows have moved next door to the State, its sister theatre.
719 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701
Ten screens and 817 seats, food and drink brought to your seat with an 18% service charge on the bill, and The Highball bar. Once the film starts, nobody else is let in, and under-18s need an adult with them.
1120 S Lamar Blvd., Austin, TX 78704
A stand-up club in the old Ritz Theater on Sixth Street, with two rooms, Fat Man and Little Boy. Over-21s only, with two drinks a head minimum; whoever bought the tickets must come with photo ID, and phones and watches are sealed in pouches. Sold-out shows keep a standby line.
320 E 6th St, Austin, TX 78701
A stand-up club for over-21s, with free shows and open mics among its listings and no minimum spend. Doors open half an hour before each show and seats go to whoever comes first; the bar keeps going until 2am, a food truck until midnight.
611 E 7th St, Austin, TX 78701
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 11am until the meat runs out, usually by 2 or 3pm, and shut every Monday. The line lasts hours, so bring a chair or borrow one of theirs; pre-orders are taken online.
900 E 11th Street, Austin, TX 78702
Barbecue with a Michelin star, from chef and owner Ali Clem, Wednesday to Sunday 11am to 6pm and closed Monday and Tuesday. Order online and collect it ready.
2401 East Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX 78702
Mexican cooking from sisters Reyna and Maritza Vazquez, who grew up in Mexico, with shops round Austin and Round Rock. The downtown one, in the Line Hotel, opens every day 7am to 10pm.
111 E Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78701
Tex-Mex on South Lamar since 1952, known for its fajitas and Bob's Famous Queso. Closed Tuesdays; open until 11pm Friday and Saturday, 10pm Wednesday and Thursday, 9pm Sunday and Monday. Join its online waitlist before you set off.
2613 S Lamar, Austin, TX 78704
In East Austin since 1962, with breakfast served all day, Tuesday to Sunday 6am to 2pm. After 9:30am at weekends, expect to wait 25 to 45 minutes. No Apple Pay or any tap-to-pay, and a 3% packaging fee goes on every bill.
2305 E 7th St, Austin, TX 78702
Austin-owned since 1980, with breakfast all day, pancakes and queso. The first one, on Kerbey Lane, opens every day 7am to 10pm; the South Lamar and University cafés stay open to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. No bookings, but the online waitlist cuts the wait.
3704 Kerbey Lane, Austin, TX 78731
Mexican breakfast and lunch in East Austin since 1980, every day 7am to 3pm, and home of the Don Juan taco challenge. Juan Meza himself still greets diners at the door.
2300 East Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX 78702
The original Uchi, which chef Tyson Cole opened more than twenty years ago. Dinner from 4pm, until 10pm Sunday to Thursday and 11pm Friday and Saturday, with happy hour daily from 4 to 6pm; book a table or walk in.
801 South Lamar Boulevard, Austin, TX 78704
A state park inside the city, 13 miles from the Capitol, where you can swim and fish in Onion Creek, which floods after rain. Entry is $6 a day for anyone 13 or older; weekend day passes sell out, so buy ahead. A burn ban means no wood fires.
5808 McKinney Falls Parkway, Austin, TX 78744
Every visit needs a booking, in a morning slot (9am to 12:30pm) or an afternoon one (2 to 5:30pm): $12 a car online, then $8 an adult at the gate, in cash. A swim is never promised, and the path beneath the overhanging cliff is closed for falling rock. No pets, not even left in the car.
24300 Hamilton Pool Road, Dripping Springs, TX 78620
The original Salt Lick, southwest of Austin at Driftwood, smoking meat on the same pit since 1967; open 11am to 9pm, to 10pm Friday and Saturday. Bring your own drink or buy wine and beer at Salt Lick Cellars in the same lot. All-you-can-eat Family Style is $33.95 a head, and only groups of ten or more can book.
18300 FM 1826, Driftwood, TX 78619
A day's trip southwest to San Antonio. The Alamo Church is always free to enter but needs a reservation; the site opens every day 9am to 5:30pm, and the new Collections Center, home to the Phil Collins Collection, closes at 5pm. Hats off inside the Church.
300 Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, TX 78205
Every place round the venue you chose, at its straight-line distance. Streets, rivers and stairs make the real way longer: the route link on each card asks a map for it.
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The festival's dates, its venues and the shows listed here come from Out of Bounds Comedy Festival's own pages: its schedule ↗ and its venues ↗. The shows are some of the festival's, not all of them. Checked 17 October 2026.
Every place links to its own site, which has the last word: hours, prices, bookings and what is on all change, so look before you set out. Distances here are straight lines between points on OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), never walking distances.
The pins' city scene is AI-assisted art from the Guide's own Pintastic Voyage kit (see the Credits).
