Bat Fest at Congress Avenue Bridge

Bat Fest is a recurring late-summer public festival and educational event celebrating the Mexican free-tailed bat colony that lives under the Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge. The event has included live music, educational booths, and activities aimed at bat conservation and is tied to the documented seasonal emergence of the bridge's bat colony. The festival and related programming are part of the city's organized outreach about the bats and urban wildlife.