Brackenridge Park Conservancy is working to build an immersive, nature-based, and inclusive playscape for 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.
Brackenridge Park Conservancy worked with the City of San Antonio, citizens, neighborhood groups, and other stakeholders to develop guiding principles and criteria to evaluate, score, and prioritize park projects. This helps to ensure that each project fits Brackenridge Park’s unique sense of place and role in the story of San Antonio.
Extensively researched and illustrated with more than 200 archival photographs and vintage postcards, “Brackenridge: San Antonio’s Acclaimed Urban Park” by San Antonio author Lewis F. Fisher is the first comprehensive look at the fascinating story of San Antonio’s premier public park and how its diverse layers evolved to create one of the City’s foremost gathering places.
The Conservancy raised an additional $4.6 million to supplement the City of San Antonio’s 2017-2022 Bond Project to preserve and rehabilitate the Lambert Beach river walls, acequia walls, and upper labor dam; preserve the lily pond walls and water gates; and rehabilitate and restore the pump house structure.
Brackenridge Park Conservancy funded this Cultural Landscape Report to provide a holistic understanding of the entire landscape from ecological and cultural perspectives.
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