If you are in beautiful San Antonio, why not go for a ride south down the river from the Blue Star Art Gallery. Hire your bikes at Blue Star bikes as you will need them for a couple of hours. The good share-bike system in San Antonio is designed for shorter rides. As far as I can tell the safe and road free bike trails in San Antonio don’t amount to more than 20 miles but for an American town, that is actually quite good.
The most important thing about San Antonio is that it can be really nice in winter and extraordinary hot and muggy in summer.
Distance 28km return and pretty flat. Bring lots of water in summer.
Lots of pics on Instagram of our lovely ride down the San Antonio River in January of 2018.
Cormorants, green tortoises and ducks on the #biketrailsanant
End of a good bike trail. #biketrailsanant
Sans Tony. #biketrailsanant
The bike trail on the #sanantonioriver near the #lonestarbrewery is smooth as shown #biketrailsanant
There is a great safe bike ride in #sanantonio but first a couple of pics of #thealamo. #biketrailsanant
The highlight of #sanantonio is likely to be the #riverwalk. This consists of a sunken canal that does a one mile loop through town and a river controlled by dams and locks that heads through the city. Nearly as good as Venice but a bit like the #piratesofthecaribbean ride at Disneyland. #biketrailsanant #sanantonioriverwalk
To the north of #sanantonio after a great 4 mile walk up the #sanantonioriver is the #pearlbrewery Great food and coffee to be had. Not recommended as a bike path. #biketrailsanant
One of the best ways to get around #sanantonio is on the #number11bus. $2.50 for a day pass to the #biketrailsanant, the missions and the #pearlbrewery
To the south of #downtownsanantonio the river systems are impressive and the walking is good. #biketrailsanant
#sanantonio has an impressive system of canals, overflow tunnels to make sure constant water is supplied to the tourism area. #biketrailsanant
The target of the #biketrailsanant is the Missions and #missionespada is terrific.
One great thing about getting out and about on the #sanantonioriver is the bird life. In these photos you can find a lot of turtles, a graceful heron and one of the many ducks. We also saw a roadrunner but it ran away. meep meep #biketrailsanant <<bird is the #redshoulderedhawk hawk >>
Here is the trail we rode >> The GPS in the phone ran out so its very general.
