Paseo de la Resaca Wraps Trails Around Brownsville's Water

Resacas are old cut-off river channels that still hold water, and Brownsville is threaded with them. Paseo de la Resaca is the trail system built to follow that water. It opened in 2000 inside a planned community on the former Hudson Ranch.

The system has 128 acres of parkland, 4.1 miles of resacas, and seven miles of paved hike-and-bike trail. It also has marinas and playgrounds. Sections pass Central Parkway, Texas Trail of Trees Park, North Park and Tennis Center, and the Brownsville Events Center.

Spend a morning on it and Brownsville starts to make sense. Water and trails keep showing up inside neighborhoods, not just out at the beach.