Best of Austin®

Best Blacktop

Maplewood Elementary School

Oh, sure, there are bigger blacktops, with more basketball hoops and ample four-square space, and there are smoother blacktops, better for marbles and skateboards, but Maplewood is the only one we know of with a six-color map of the world painted on it, in all it's cartographical glory. Think you can hit a jump shot from Australia? How 'bout Sweden? Talk about your Mercator projections . . .