Opinion: These trails wouldn’t exist without South Texas Off-Road Mountain Bikers, a nonprofit that has a formal trail-building agreement with the city.
Ranch Loop is one of the hiking-only trails that cuts through oak savannahs and shaded woods at Classen-Steubing Ranch Park.After five years of work by the city and volunteer trail-builders, San Antonio’s newest park is open. It brings about three miles of brand-new trailsThe 204-acre Classen-Steubing Ranch Park in the Stone Oak area is the most recent of San Antonio’s natural areas to open to the public.
The mountain bike trails, finished only last week, include about 2 miles of singletrack paths that extend across the northeastern edge of the property. My map here is mostly correct, but checkNavigating the interwoven paths is still a bit challenging because of some of the existing ranch roads and game trails. Follow the paths where volunteers have cut through the brush using weed-eaters.
“We’ve cut the same trails in multiple times, just because of the time it’s taken — the pandemic, right-of-entry and things like that,” Jordan said. “We’ve been putting a lot of work in out there since April.” Brendan Gibbons for the San Antonio Report STORM is constantly in need of volunteers to maintain the trail network it’s been steadily expanding. Check theJordan said STORM plans to continue working on the trails, adding jumps, berms and other features to make them more progressively challenging depending on which line riders take. They’ll also add signs to make it easier to navigate the new trails.
Ranch Loop is a 0.73-mile trail off the southeastern part of the main paved path. The trail is the most scenic in the park, passing first across a savannah with stands of huge oak trees interrupted by fields of grasses, forbs and prickly pear. Much has changed at Classen-Steubing since my first visit to the future park in 2017, shortly after the city had bought the first 165 acres using $6.3 million in aquifer protection funds. It purchased the remaining 39 for $3.8 million after a voters approved it as part of the city’s 2017 bond package. Brendan Gibbons for the San Antonio Report
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