Salado Creek Foundation

Hike & Bike Details Released

Oct 26, 2000

The $2.5 million dollar first phase of the Salado Creek Hike and Bike Trail is one step closer to becoming a reality.

Engineers working on the project recently unveiled their plans for the preliminary alignment of the trail and drawings of some of its possible features.

Jim Gray of Rialto Studios presented details about the work to a citizens input committee sponsored by District 2 City Councilman Mario Salas.

Gray says the northern trailhead will be at the parking lot for the Willow Springs Golf Course on Houston Street. Preliminary plans call for the trail to cross over to the east bank of Salado Creek before heading south.

Some type of linkage will cross the creek in the area near DaFoste Park so that residents of the Coliseum/Willow Park neighborhood will have access to the trail.

The trail will pass under Interstate 10 and continue on the north bank as the creek begins to run toward the east. At Martin Luther King Park, planners say they will take advantage of an existing low water crossing to move the trail to the west bank of the creek, where it will stay until it reaches the south end of the Wheatley Heights neighborhood.

On property owned by YMCA, the trail will again cross the creek and continue to a southern trailhead at Comanche County Park on Rigsby.

Generally, the trail will be ten feet wide and fully accessible. Its surface will depend on the terrain and the trail's location relative to the flood plain. Security lighting and several different kinds of signage will be included in the project.

Construction is scheduled to begin in the fall of 2001.

If you would like more information about this important project you may call David Pasley in the city's Public Works Department at 207-3398.