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Here are your New Year’s Eve street closures

Roads around Zilker Park will be shut down for the city celebration

Austin’s New Year—the city’s official New Year’s Eve party—returns once more to Vic Mathias (née Auditorium) Shores Sunday, and it’s bringing a few road closures with it.

The free, family-friendly, alcohol-free event, which features music and other performances on several stages, along with art, vendors, a food court, and kids’ activities—starts at 3 p.m. and ends with fireworks, which start popping at 10 p.m.

Street closures for the event, detailed and mapped below (via the Downtown Austin Alliance website), start much earlier and end at about the time we flip the calendar to 2018.

Austin New Year's Celebration 2018

8:00 PM to 12:00 AM

RIVERSIDE DRIVE

Between South 1st Street and South Lamar boulevard

This closure will go into effect at 2:00 p.m.

SOUTH FIRST STREET BRIDGE

Between Riverside Drive and West Cesar Chavez Street

This closure will go into effect at 9:30 p.m.

WEST CESAR CHAVEZ STREET

(Partial Closure)

Between Lavaca Street and MoPac Boulevard

Westbound lanes will remain open between Lavaca and Gudalupe.

SAN ANTONIO STREET

Between West Cesar Chavez Street and West 2nd Street

Local traffic will be able to access destinations within the closure area.

WALTER SEAHOLM DR.

Between West Cesar Chavez Street and West 2nd Street

Local traffic will be able to access destinations within the closure area.

SANDRA MURAIDA WAY AND B. R. REYNOLDS DRIVE

Between West Cesar Chavez Street and Lamar Boulevard

MOPAC BOULEVARD NORTHBOUND AND SOUTHBOUND EXIT RAMPS TO CESAR CHAVEZ

Between Mopac Boulevard and West Cesar Chavez Street

Zilker Park

2168 Lou Neff Rd., Austin, TX 78704 (512) 477-8672 Visit Website