Thought I'd share an e-mail I sent to San Antonio city officials regarding my GREAT experience yesterday exploring the Salado Creek Greenway. We explored the IH410 to Rittiman Road section. Here's the e-mail:
"Spent the day yesterday with my daughter which included about two hours at the Salado Creek Greenway. We started our walk from the Tobin Park Trailhead and I was excited since I had not explored this section of the greenway (I have been on the Huebner to Blanco segment).
Here's a photo gallery from my visit:
Salado Creek - Tobin Park - a set on Flickr
I wanted to share a few observations with you:
- The greenway was litter free, patrolled by SA Park Police and made a GREAT first impression with the informational display, architecture used for the display & picnic tables, etc. It almost felt like we were on "vacation" somewhere!
- When I arrived there was just one car in the Tobin Park parking lot. As we walked along the greenway, I must have encountered at least eight cyclists - some "serious" road bikers and some folks on comfort/mountain bikes. I also encountered a jogger and 2-3 couples walking. This was great to see! And, it demonstrated that people are coming to the greenway from other trail heads or just biking/walking from their homes. So, a parking lot "count" if anyone was doing such a thing might be an inaccurate means of judging utilization.
- We had a GREAT time, always felt safe between the park patrol and the other folks out enjoying the greenway. This is such a wonderful display of tax dollars being used to benefit the community. Awesome, awesome, awesome..."