The Trailist: 1.9-mile trail connects Rodriguez Park to Lackland

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A new section of Leon Creek Greenway trail is pushing the city’s trail network farther into the Southwest Side near Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.

, a 75-foot metal sculpture by San Antonio artist George Schroeder, is now a feature of the Leon Creek Greenway, thanks to a new 1.9-mile extension trail.A new section of Leon Creek Greenway trail, completed in June, is pushing the city’s greenway trail network farther into the Southwest Side near Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.

The military is the focus, but the park also makes room for nature, with the City of San Antonio installing a rain garden with native plants at the base of the sculpture to capture and filter stormwater draining off the parking lot. When first built, the rain garden was probably a fine example of green infrastructure, though invasive Johnson grass has spread rampantly since then.

The monument is the most interesting sight along the new trail segment, but a few other spots are worth mentioning. First are the signs warning trailgoers not to eat any fish caught in this part of Leon Creek. No other stream or river in our area has this distinction. According to the state health department, people “should not consume any species of fish from Leon Creek between the Old Highway 90 bridge and the Loop 410 bridge” nearly 7 miles south.

Though I valued the new southern extension for pushing the trail closer to Pearsall Park and, one day, on south to Medina River Natural Area, I found the short segment of Leon Creek Greenway north of Levi Strauss Park to be a more pleasant stretch of trail. This patch of forest also struck me for having one of the most abundant concentrations of mustang grapes I’ve ever seen. The climbing vines with woody stems and broad leaves covered trees on both sides of the trail, dropping their ripe fruit in deep purple splats on the concrete.

 

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