| With over 50,000 students there are numerous | | | | One of the largest Austin metropolitan area |
| entertainment venues around the University of | | | | hospitals, Brackenridge-Seton Hospital, is also just |
| Texas. Austin is frequently referred to as the live | | | | a few blocks south of campus, and is the oldest |
| music capital of Texas. And although when people | | | | public hospital in Texas. The hospital complex |
| talk about the music scene in Austin they usually | | | | includes the Children's Hospital of Austin and the |
| think of downtown the campus area also reflects | | | | University Medical Center, all of which offer first |
| this saying with nightspots such as the Hole in the | | | | class medical treatment for acute as well as long |
| Wall, which is an Austin institution and has been | | | | term care, ample parking, and many other |
| the home of many local recording artists for | | | | facilities in a very convenient location. |
| more than twenty-five years, as well as the U.T. | | | | In addition to football and basketball, the university |
| campus itself, which hosts regular live music | | | | sports and recreation department provides track |
| performances in the Cactus Café, which is | | | | facilities, including one of the only lighted intramural |
| adjacent to the student union and which is located | | | | fields in the country, at the intramural fields |
| in the West Mall area. There are also | | | | complex, which is situated along the intersection |
| faculty-oriented clubs and restaurants such as the | | | | of 51st and Guadalupe Streets in the North Loop |
| Campus Club, at the corner of 24th and | | | | neighborhood. The complex is about a mile north |
| Guadalupe, which offers a daily special and a | | | | of the campus itself, and the intramural fields are |
| variety of top-notch choices in a buffet-style | | | | home to the U.T. Rugby team. In the |
| setting. | | | | neighborhood of Hyde Park, just north of the |
| Other notable establishments in or around the | | | | University of Texas, there are also museums and |
| campus area include the Frank Erwin Center, | | | | golf courses including the Elizabet Ney Museum, |
| which hosts Longhorn basketball, and many other | | | | which is one of the oldest museums in Texas. |
| national as well as local sporting events and | | | | The Hancock Golf Course, which was established |
| concerts and is located on the eastern rim of | | | | in 1899, is just a few blocks away as well, and |
| campus, adjacent to Interstate 35. The Darrell K. | | | | allows golfers to play the course on a daily fee |
| Royal Memorial Stadium, which is a few blocks | | | | basis. All and all, the University of Texas campus |
| north of the Erwin Center, is home to the | | | | area in Austin offers something for everyone, |
| University of Texas Longhorn football team, and | | | | and is one of the most popular destinations for |
| nearby Disch-Falk Field hosts U.T. Longhorn | | | | locals, University students and tourists alike. There |
| baseball games, and is directly across the highway | | | | is always something to do on or near campus. |
| from Royal Memorial Stadium on Interstate 35. | | | | |