Riverwalk. San Antonio-style! (Time-lapse)

Have you ever been to San Antonio, Texas? If you have, then you may be familiar with the Riverwalk area. From my room on the 17th floor of the San Antonio Marriot, (I always ask for the highest floor I can, for potential photographic opportunities) I had the perfect bird’s eye view of the River Walk.

There is plenty of history and ambiance at this sought after San Antonio destination. The 2.5 mile San Antonio River Walk is a public park at river level (below the street). The lush riverside paths are lined with towering Cypress trees, restaurants, hotels, shops, museums, and recreation spots. It’s open 365 days a year and welcomes over 14 million people annually.

The River Walk consists of 17,000 feet of walkways, about twenty bridges, and lots of beautiful vegetation, including some bald cypress whose branches now stretch up to ten stories. During the annual springtime Fiesta San Antonio, the River Parade features flowery floats making their way down the river.
The River Walk was actually the result of a disastrous flood in 1921 along the San Antonio River that took 51 lives. Plans were then developed for flood control, and the resulting project morphed into the River Walk, which over the years has grown and changed and become the number one attraction in Texas!
The San Antonio River Walk has inspired similar projects in other cities, such as the Little Sugar Creek Greenway in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Cherry Creek Greenway in Denver, Colorado, The Bricktown Canal in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the Santa Lucía Riverwalk in Monterrey, Mexico.