Bastrop to Austin Cue Sheet

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Cumulative miles	Instruction	Comments
0.0	Start at the intersection of Park Road 1 and Hwy 21, the entrance to Bastrop State Park. Go west on Hwy 21 (toward Bastrop)	Bastrop State Park is a major landmark on the Southern Tier route, Section 4, Map 61
0.9	Turn left on Hwy 95	Stores
1.0	Turn right on Pine St.	Pine St. is unmarked. It’s the first street that goes right
1.7	Turn right on Main St. in Bastrop’s Historic District	Restaurants
1.8	Turn left on Hwy 21	Cross steel bridge at mile 2.0, riding on sidewalk on the left side of the road
2.4	Turn right on Old Austin Road	Old Austin Road becomes the frontage road of Hwy 71 (which is also Hwy 21)
3.8	Cross Hwy 71 to enter Hwy 304	The frontage road ends here; you’re forced to cross Hwy 71
5.0	Turn right on Shiloh Rd.	3 huge storage tanks at this intersection
10.1	Turn right on N. Gaines Rd.	Shiloh tapers to one lane road at N. Gaines Rd (which is unmarked) Cross Hwy 20 at mile 6.7
11.1	Turn left on Hwy 21	Stores on this leg
14.4	Turn right on Pearce Rd.	Pearce Rd. is also FM 535
21.0	Turn left on Linden Rd.
21.8	Turn right on Fagerquist Rd.
24.0	Turn right on Elroy Rd.	! Route turns hard left at mile 24.6. If you miss this turn, you’ll be on Ross Rd, off the route!
26.1	Cross FM 973 and road becomes Burleson Rd.	Richard Moya Park (with restrooms) at mile 26.9 Cross Hwy 183 at mile 28.7
30.5	Turn right on Montopolis Drive
33.4	Bear right to stay on Montopolis Drive	If you miss this turn, you’ll be on Grove Blvd, off the route
35.1	One block before Hwy 183, turn left into cul-de-sac on road which is also called Montopolis
35.2	At the end of the cul-de-sac, enter sidewalk that crosses the steel truss bridge on the left side of the road	These last 4 steps in the route will be replaced with the Lance Armstrong Bikeway when it’s completed
35.4	At the end of the sidewalk, bear left onto Levander Loop	Levander Loop is unmarked, but that’s OK. Exit the sidewalk, merge with the traffic, and you’ll be going the right way.
35.5	Follow the sign to 7^th street
39.3	End at the corner of Congress Avenue and 7^th Street in the heart of downtown Austin.	On this map, this ending point is 2 blocks south of landmark number 11. If you’re following the Southern Tier maps, note that Congress Avenue extends northward to Martin Luther King Blvd, which becomes FM 969 east of Austin, and is the Southern Tier’s route from Bastrop to Austin.