From this location you can see Buford Tower (information below). Nereby there is a really nice lookout point (with the Texas Star) though, unfortunatley usually crowded with homeless people. There is access to the hike and bike trail from here and a quick walk to the Congree street bridge and 1st street bridge.
Buford Tower (formerly the Austin Fire Drill Tower) is a tower standing along the north shore of Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin, Texas. The structure was originally built in 1930 as a drill tower for the Austin Fire Department, but it now serves as a bell tower and landmark. Named after fire department Captain James L. Buford, the structure has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2016.
Austin first established a professional fire department in 1916, creating the need for a drill tower where the firefighters could train. On December 26, 1929, the City authorized construction of a fire drill tower on a parcel of land along the Colorado River, where the river could provide water for testing fire hoses and extinguishing training fires. The tower was built in 1930 at a cost of $6,200 and it immediately began to be burned and flooded regularly during training exercises and the testing of equipment.
On August 23, 1978 the tower was rededicated as Buford Tower, named after Austin Fire Department Captain James L. Buford, the first Austin firefighter to die in the line of duty.