Beneath the linear park runs a gigantic stormwater conveyance structure. At the surface, the only signs are the concrete inlets poking up from the grass, offering flash floods a place to flow underground.
Neighbors had originally envisioned cleaning up these unused lots and turning them into parks, Lockey said. They had also gotten a bunch of free trees from the city, he said, and planted them in what would eventually become the community garden.
“We carried trash cans of water out there,” he said. “We used the bucket brigade to water them all through that summer.”The park has come a long way since then. In 2013, the city opened the first four or five lots, and the trail has expanded to a little more than a half-mile. I first got curious about the park when visiting the Evergreen Garden Center, which essentially shares a parking lot with the northern trailhead on Hildebrand.
The linear park follows an underground stormwater tunnel and passes along the backyards of many Beacon Hill neighbors.Because of its slow, iterative construction over the years, the trail’s surfaces are ever-changing. Sometimes the Beacon Hill Linear Neighborhood Park trail is asphalt path. Sometimes it’s a street. Sometimes it’s a path of decomposed granite. Other times, it’s a well-trodden patch of grass.
Lockey and I walked the path together Wednesday evening. People were using nearly every park along the way — young men playing basketball, older men sitting on benches under a tree, an old woman and a toddler playing at a playground and a group of kids having an epic Nerf gun war.The association still plans to keep adding to the park. Lockey pointed out a recent addition to the park, a former empty lot near the community garden.
For now, plans are to continue improving the existing park. Another batch of trees is also headed for the park, funded by the 2017-2022 bond, Lockey said. He wanted me to convey his gratitude to the City Council members and Parks and Recreation Department staff who have worked with them over the years.More from San Antonio Report
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