I have lived in Austin Texas for my whole life, and a few months ago I got interested in urban exploration. I have been taking occasional day trips to nearby cities in Texas but I want to start doing more exploring in Austin. I feel like most stuff that gets abandoned here gets destroyed very quickly. Any tips for UE in a city like this??

Construction sites are a great place to go exploring!
In many cases, wearing a hi-vis vest and wearing a hard hat will help you not be noticed as much if you go during light hours since most passersby wouldn't bat an eye seeing a person in hi-vis in a construction site.

Since the previous post got double posted I thought I should add something important.

Hi-vis is not a guarantee of not getting caught. If you go at suspicious times, such as when it is dark, people may be concerned and not just ignore you.

Posted by Wowee Construction sites are a great place to go exploring! In many cases, wearing a hi-vis vest and wearing a hard hat will help you not be noticed as much if you go during light hours since most passersby wouldn't bat an eye seeing a person in hi-vis in a construction site.

I want to try this really badly, All I need is the hardhat lol.

coming from Toronto, another rapidly expanding city, it can be difficult to find spots to explore but a lot of the time as said before, construction sites as well as demolition sites can be really interesting. I'm not sure how it is in Austin but in Toronto some sites are historically protected even if they're abandoned so that might be worth looking into

Posted by Wowee Construction sites are a great place to go exploring! In many cases, wearing a hi-vis vest and wearing a hard hat will help you not be noticed as much if you go during light hours since most passersby wouldn't bat an eye seeing a person in hi-vis in a construction site.

Haha, I always thought about doing that for getting onto roofs, but that's a really good idea to use it to get into construction sites. I'll definitely give it a try

If the local real estate economy is too prosperous for abandoned buildings, get into roofs, cranes, and drains. Rapidly expanding cities mean rapidly expanding infrastructure, and when one bando closes another manhole opens.

Plus, even prosperous cities have the occasional derelict building- you may have to just work harder to find them, and accept that you'll find fewer of them. If you have a car, expand your range- when I lived in cities with few urbex opportunities I expanded my range to include the entire section of the state, and in one case two entire states.

Austin does have a bunch of abandoned buildings scattered around, but almost none of them are super interesting. Definitely would reccomend climbing/rooftopping if you're interested in that sort of thing, Austin is a good place for it. Cities like Austin have a lot of buildings that are actually abandoned because the property values are so high, like on South Lamar where property value is very high, there are so many random ass vacant properties tied up in buyers/development/whatever.

I live in one of the most rapidly urbanising places in the world, although it expands upward rather than outward, and there's no shortage of abandonment. It may get destroyed quickly, but if you keep finding more sites, you can keep up with the high turnover. Wherever there are plans to build new things, they have to clear something out of the way, even if it's just a few farmhouses on the edge of town.

Posted by Pearson Austin does have a bunch of abandoned buildings scattered around, but almost none of them are super interesting. Definitely would reccomend climbing/rooftopping if you're interested in that sort of thing, Austin is a good place for it. Cities like Austin have a lot of buildings that are actually abandoned because the property values are so high, like on South Lamar where property value is very high, there are so many random ass vacant properties tied up in buyers/development/whatever.

Yea, I looked into it more and I mapped out a few good places. And I see what you are talking about with the vacant properties, I've found alot of them but I have only found a good way to get in for like 2 of them

Posted by Steed I live in one of the most rapidly urbanising places in the world, although it expands upward rather than outward, and there's no shortage of abandonment. It may get destroyed quickly, but if you keep finding more sites, you can keep up with the high turnover. Wherever there are plans to build new things, they have to clear something out of the way, even if it's just a few farmhouses on the edge of town.

Yeah, I did some more research and I found some pretty cool spots that aren't destroyed.