Kerrville-Schreiner Park Has Both River Shade and Hill Country Trail Dust

At 2385 Bandera Highway, Kerrville-Schreiner Park holds two Kerrville landscapes in one city park. The river side has Guadalupe access, picnic areas, standing grills, fishing, paddling rentals, River Trail access, and the ordinary happy noise of a park day. The hill side is rougher: dirt, caliche, limestone, roots, and single-track trails.

Kerrville-Schreiner covers 517 acres. Its natural-surface trail system runs more than 14 miles, with routes that can be shortened to a mile or stretched into a long loop without repeating trail. Many routes are easy to moderate, but the system still gives mountain bikers and hikers enough climb, turns, and loose Hill Country ground to feel like they left town.

The park's backstory explains the scale. It began as a city park built by the C.C.C. in the 1930s, then became a state park, then came back to the City of Kerrville on February 13, 2004. That history left Kerrville with something bigger than a neighborhood playground: a public patch of riverbank and cedar hill that still feels roomy.