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Lakeway is a city in Travis County, Texas, an Austin exurb located on the south shore of Lake Travis, a reservoir on the Colorado River created by Mansfield Dam.

Lakeway was founded in the early 1960s on the site of a 2,700-acre ranch owned by Houston oilman and rancher Jack Josey, when three Houston businessmen with the Gulfmont Hotel Company planned a hotel and resort community there.

The 48-room Lakeway Inn — now the Lakeway Resort and Spa — broke ground in October 1962 and opened on July 12, 1963, with Lady Bird Johnson and Governor John Connally among the honored guests.

The name Lakeway was chosen as a sequel to Gulfmont's Fairway Motor Hotel in McAllen, so named because it overlooked the fairway of a golf course.

Lakeway incorporated in June 1974 as a 1,200-acre village with the consent of the city of Austin.

Lakeway has grown explosively with the Austin area: its population rose from 790 in 1980 to 8,002 in 2000 and 19,189 in the 2020 census.

Census QuickFacts counts 7,831 households in Lakeway (2020–2024), with a high owner-occupied housing rate of about 86.3% and 2.44 persons per household.

Hurst Creek runs directly through Lakeway and empties into Lake Travis just north of the city.

Lakeway is served by the Lake Travis Independent School District, and all of the city is zoned to Lake Travis High School.