Opinion: All told, I spent about two and a half hours tracing all of Brackenridge Park's five trail miles — and a whole lot longer grappling with what to say about them.
multiple San Antonio residents with vivid childhood memories about not being able to visit entire parts of the city because of their skin color.
, as being both substantive and symbolic. There may actually be no better forum to discuss these issues than with our neighbors and local city government. The 300-year history of San Antonio unfolded over one-fortieth of the timespan of the archaeological record at Brackenridge Park. If those people living 12,000 years ago could take a time machine to the present day, what would they say about our current conflicts? Fast-forward another 12,000 years — what will the people who stand on this ground be talking about then?Brackenridge Park has several, though mapping them proved a little more difficult than I expected.
The trails north of Tuleta are mostly paved and parallel the river. Near the Witte Museum, the trail passes the remnants of a former Spanish colonial weir dam, built to raise the river’s level to channel water into an acequia. The also passes by theBrackenridge had built to push water uphill to a reservoir at what is now the San Antonio Botanical Gardens. The structure is one of the oldest industrial buildings still standing in Texas.
Rounding the corner near the San Antonio Zoo, a bridge connects the northern bank to the Waterworks Loop on the south side of the river. Keep going straight, across the roundabout outside the zoo’s entrance, and visitors can access one of the best views available of the downtown skyline.
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