Nature Walk: What's Living Along Salado Creek? – CNC 2026

Explore the Greenway Trail along Salado Creek — then learn to identify what you found. No experience needed — just curiosity and a phone.

The Salado Creek Greenway south of is one of those stretches where the trail does the work for you — shaded canopy, creek-side habitat, and enough variety to keep you looking around every few steps.

On Saturday, April 25, from 11:30 AM–1:30 PM, join Robert Doyal and Tracey Burke, Texas Master Naturalists and iNaturalist Ambassadors, for a nature walk where we'll use the free iNaturalist app to spot, photograph, and document whatever we find along the way.

No experience needed. If you can point a phone camera at a bug, you're qualified.

On the walk back, we'll stop for an ID discussion — a chance to look at what we found, talk through how to identify it, and learn what makes a strong observation. It's the part of the walk where curiosity turns into knowledge.

This walk is part of the City Nature Challenge, a worldwide event where people in hundreds of cities spend four days discovering and documenting the wildlife around them. Everything you photograph becomes part of a global biodiversity dataset — and helps scientists better understand what lives right here across our 12-county San Antonio Metro Area. That beetle clinging to a piece of bark? That's data. The lichen creeping across the exposed rock? That's a contribution. You're not just going for a walk — you're mapping what lives here.

• Saturday, April 25 · 11:30 AM –1:30 PM
• Lady Bird Johnson Park — Trailhead (10700 Nacogdoches Road)
• Easy walking
• Registration is required — please RSVP through Eventbrite to save your spot.

Download the iNaturalist app and create a free account — it takes about a minute and means we can start exploring right away.

• Please arrive by 11:15 AM
• Bring water and sunscreen
• Wear closed-toed shoes and dress for the weather
• Great for adults and older kids (14+)
• Please leave pets at home
• Park at the Lady Bird Johnson Park trailhead lot

This event is entirely outside and will be cancelled if there is inclement weather or unsafe conditions. If that happens, we'll notify everyone registered through Eventbrite via email.

Find more City Nature Challenge events happening across the San Antonio Metro Area, a 12-county region, at CNC-SA.org

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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