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The City of Austin prohibits operation of most motorized watercraft on Lady Bird Lake.

As a result, the lake serves as a popular recreational area for kayaks, canoes, dragon boats, and rowing shells.

Austin's warm climate and the river's calm waters, nearly length and straight courses are especially popular with crew teams and clubs.

Along with the University of Texas women's rowing team and coeducational club rowing team, who practice on Lady Bird Lake year-round, teams from northern universities ( including the University of Chicago, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Nebraska ) train on Lady Bird Lake during Christmas holidays and spring breaks.

Other water sports along the shores of the lake include swimming in Deep Eddy Pool, the oldest swimming pool in Texas, and Barton Springs Pool, a natural pool on Barton Creek which flows into Lady Bird Lake.

Below Tom Miller Dam is Red Bud Isle, a small island formed by the 1900 collapse of the McDonald Dam that serves as a recreation area with a dog park and access to the lake for canoeing and fishing.