![]() ![]() You can read more about Comanche Lookout Park’s history on the San Antonio Parks and Recreation website. Edward Coppock) who was also a history buff and acquired the land in 1923. We wanted to see the famed Comanche Lookout tower (which is located at the top of the park too). Turns out this tower was built not by some ancient civilization, but by a retired Army officer (Col. ![]() That’s the downtown San Antonio skyline off in the distance.īut, we weren’t done yet. But, I did and let me tell you, the view from the top is worth every deep breath and screaming leg muscle it takes to get you up there. Y’all, I wasn’t sure I’d make it (there was some huffing and puffing involved on my part). To reach the top of Comanche Lookout Park (which is the 4th highest elevation in Bexar County, at 1340 feet), you can take a paved trail that slowly increases in elevation, or you can brave this rocky hike (which I swear is much steeper in person than photographs are able to show). If we lived closer to this park, we’d probably be there every day. But it offers so much more: 4.5 miles of trails (most of them paved) a fun hike up a steep hill which rewards you with a panoramic view of San Antonio plenty of natural nooks and crannies to explore a bridge extending from the park to the library and the library itself, just across the parking lot from the playground. It does have a playground (suitable for kids up to 12 years of age) and swings. I’d always wanted to go back to check it out.Ĭomanche Lookout Park may just be San Antonio’s perfect park. El sitio incluye el cuarto punto ms alto en. Comanche Lookout Park grabbed my attention because we’d visited this park briefly a few years ago while making a trip to the adjacent Semmes Branch Library. Historia del parqueComanche Lookout Park es un parque pblico de 96 acres propiedad de la Ciudad de San Antonio. While doing a quick search using the cool, just-launched San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department’s Find A Park search tool, we reviewed a list of local parks offering playgrounds. The only requirement my kids had for park #20: a playground. Not only would it be the last park we’d visit in 2014, but it would also be the location of our celebration – my kids and I reaching our #SA2020Resolutions goal of visiting 20 San Antonio parks in one year. Picking just the right park for #20 seemed like a big deal. Of the may trails in Comanche Lookout, the most scenic & active trail is the Library Loop Circle. Over four years, met other walkers, dogs, and bikers & made many friends, both human and animal. When weather permits, walk on one of the park trails every day. This is the first paragraph for the chapter on Comanche Lookout Park that I wrote for Ghosthunting San Antonio, Austin, and Texas Hill Country! It is a very mysterious and interesting site and, as I learned more and more about it, became the basis for the largest chapter in the book.Park #20 presented something no other park before it had: a feeling of pressure. Comanche Lookout Park is convenient, so close to my house. Investigation of its history will reveal some genuinely strange things about it." It might feel on its face to the casual visitor or ghosthunter, an Ghosts who have long been believed to haunt it. That, of course, can be the best way to explore andĪppreciate this profoundly historical site, to investigate the legendsĪssociated with it, and to possibly come into contact with some of the many Jog by wraithlike and without acknowledgement, are likely to have the place Those who visit it during normal business hours are likely to getĪn accentuated sense of this and, other than a few headphone-wearing people who Really is despite being surrounded by major roads, shopping plazas, and housingĭevelopments. of the city of San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department as part of an. The sense of being a microcosm and frequently seems more isolated than it at Comanche Lookout Park in northeastern Bexar County, Texas (Figure 1). One of San Antonio's smaller municipal parks, 96-acre Comanche Lookout Park has
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