An Urban Oasis

Brackenridge Park Conservancy is working to build an interactive, nature-based, and inclusive playscape for all of San Antonio to enjoy. Our goals include using sustainable and durable equipment, incorporating thematic features, and providing universally accessible play areas to foster environmental stewardship and a sense of community. 

Designs have been based on community feedback collected through community meetings, nearly 200 digital survey responses, and countless one-on-one conversations at community events.

If you want to donate to help build the Nature Playscape, please contact Development Director Lynn Osborne Bobbitt at lynn@brackenridgepark.org.

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Brackenridge Park Conservancy has appointed Chris Maitre as its new Chief Executive Officer. Chris has more than 27 years of non-profit experience, most recently as the Chief Operating Officer for City Park Conservancy in New Orleans where he oversaw day-to-day operations for the 1,300-acre urban park. Before that, he was the Deputy Athletics Director for Tulane University. His experience includes policy development, revenue growth, project management, and programming.

“I’m honored to join the amazing team at the Brackenridge Park Conservancy,” said Chris Maitre. “Brackenridge Park is a historically significant and culturally rich park. I’ve been fortunate to visit Brackenridge Park during prior family vacations and on trips to see my son during his Air Force training.  It was during these visits that I came to truly admire Brackenridge’s unique setting for San Antonio residents and visitors. Parks are places for people to escape the day-to-day grind, enjoy the company of others, and make lasting memories. Brackenridge has done that and more for the last 125 years. Every great city deserves a great park and San Antonio has Brackenridge Park.”

Hear more from Chris Maitre as he speaks with Randy Beamer during KLRN's On the Record.

Stakeholder Advisory Committee

Brackenridge Park Conservancy (BPC) is co-chairing with the City of San Antonio, a community planning effort to reconcile plans for the park. Brackenridge is the backyard for all San Antonians. We want to ensure that it is honored for generations to come.

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Revealing the Park's History

In July 1863, the Union Army defeated Confederate forces at Vicksburg, effectively taking control of the Mississippi River and stranding 50,000 soldiers on the river's west side. Left to supply shoes, harnesses, saddles, and more for these soldiers, Confederate army quartermasters turned their attention to a tannery in San Antonio, on land that today is in Brackenridge Park. Details of this story and so many others about Brackenridge Park are revealed in San Antonio author Lewis F. Fisher's latest book, “Brackenridge: San Antonio’s Acclaimed Urban Park”. Click here for more of Richard Marini's article about the tannery in the Express News. To purchase the book, click here.

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Cultural
Landscape Report

The Brackenridge Park landscape contains an astonishing 12,000 years of documented prehistoric and human interaction with the upper course of the San Antonio River. In that span, its 120-year existence as a municipal park is relatively short. Brackenridge Park is thus more than a municipal park...

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