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Emma Long Metropolitan Park is a large municipal park in northwest Austin Texas (United States). The park is on the shores of Lake Austin and was originally called City Park.In 1939 Civilian Conservation Corps Company 1805 that had just finished Bastrop State Park moved to the site to begin developing the tract of land into a municipal park. The company’s primary work included seeding and sodding grass planting trees and protecting the bank of the lake from erosion.