Best of Austin®

Best Grass (the Legal Kind)

Capitol Building Lawn

What's 19.5 acres, at least 4 inches deep, and takes seven people eight hours to mow at a cost of $10,000 per month? That's right, it's the Capitol building lawn. Okay, we know ... water costs, rationing, all that. But if you haven't taken a walk on that lush St. Augustine grass on a summer evening or spent an hour lying on the East lawn, watching the bats circling lovely lady liberty on a full moon evening, then you don't know what you're missing.