Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in San Antonio
Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in San Antonio? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — Confluence Park, Bracken Cave Preserve, The Ghost Tracks and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of San Antonio they'd never find on their own.
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Confluence Park
Twenty-eight cantilevered concrete "petals" — engineered by Lake|Flato and California firm Matsys using plant…
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Bracken Cave Preserve
At dusk, up to 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats spiral out of the cave in a mile-long living column — the…
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The Ghost Tracks
For decades, drivers parked in neutral on these tracks and felt their cars roll forward, 'pushed' by the ghos…
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Dionicio Rodríguez's Faux-Bois Bridge & Torii Gate, Brackenridge Park
A pedestrian bridge that looks assembled from gnarled tree limbs, complete with fake bark, knotholes, and bro…
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Miraflores Park
A forgotten 1920s private garden built by Dr. Aureliano Urrutia, a surgeon who fled the Mexican Revolution, m…