Tubing is a right of passage in Austin, Texas

Tubing is a right of passage in Austin, Texas.
There are a lot of options but try the following - inner-tubing on the river in New Braunsfel, by Schlitterbahn OR Others tubing venue of preference is the Upper Guadalupe River, on the west side of the U.S. 281 bridge. in The Upper ‘Pe, as we fondly call it, isn’t quite as cold as the Lower ‘Pe, which runs through Gruene and sometimes feels like an ice company dumped its load in the river. The water near Gruene comes from below the Canyon Lake dam. That makes it colder than the Upper ‘Pe, which is also less crowded.

What I would like to try with tubing activity? The tube stand, in which people can attempt to stand up on an inner tube. It usually only lasts a moment or two before they plunge into the river. Which isn’t too bad either.

Both ends of the river are beautiful, lined with towering, lacy cypress trees and folks piling sausages onto their backyard smokers.! It is the most fun and relaxing thing to do in the world!

It's actually fun...sitting in a tube for a few hours, floating down the river with friends, with the Texas sun beating down on you as you sip an ice, cold rootbeer. Gather a group together and grab a couple coolers filled with rootbeer, soda, water or whatever you are into and you're good to go on the river for several hours! As you are floating down, you get to enjoy the beautiful and serene scenery. You almost feel like what Huck Finn might have felt when rafting down the river (it's a lot cleaner than the Mississippi, of course!). Plus, you get to see all these little turtles swimming next to you (they're impossible to catch though)!

A few options to go inner tubing -
Guadalupe River
Frio River
San Marcos River
Comal River
Texas Paddling Trails
Brazos River
Neches River