In 2007, with overwhelming voter support, the City of San Antonio purchased 311 acres of the former Voelcker Dairy Farm to build a major new urban park. Voelcker Park is a part of our strategy to get back to where we need to be in terms of parks and open space in our city.

For those of you who haven’t seen the virgin land of Voelcker, it is truly a humbling and awe-inspiring experience. Some of the trees on this land were standing at the time of the Battle of the Alamo. To walk among those trees is to know our history.  Now that the park is opening for occasional weekend events, I hope you will come and walk in the shade of its magnificent oak trees.